Cara Jones

American singer
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Cara Jones is an American singer, songwriter, and a voice actor.
As a singer and songwriter, she has sold over 1.2 million copies of her songs in Japan. In the United States and elsewhere, her music can be heard on the popular syndicated television series Dawson's Creek, as well as a number of feature films.
As a voice talent, Cara is heard worldwide as the English voice of the GPS car navigation systems of the Jaguar (car), models of the Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, Land Rover, Ford and more. She announced the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, voiced hundreds of commercials, as well as popular PlayStation and Sega games. In addition, Cara spent 7 years as a prime time DJ on Tokyo’s popular FM station, J-Wave.

Voice talent

Games

  • Shenmue: Hisaka Sawano, Mayumi Mishima, Lidia Bennett
  • Tekken 3: Julia Chang
  • Einhänder: Hyperion's Computer Voice
  • Fighting Vipers: Jane

Other

Cara Jones is a Multilingual voiceover producer at VoiceOverProductions.com, formerly Carasmatic Productions (www.carasmatic.com). There she has overseen voiceover productions for Google, Amazon, Motorola, Disney, E! and more.

  • Cara Jones has voiced commercials, industrials, or documentaries for the following companies: PNC, Pampers, Sony, Xerox, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Agnes B., Shick, Toyota, Phillip Morris, Japan Air Lines, Harry Winston, Volvo, Canon, Deutsche Telecom, Ansett Australia Airlines, Kirin Beer, Toshiba EMI, Coca Cola, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Land Rover, Komatsu, Shiseido, Suntory, NHK, Panasonic, Paralympics, ANA Airlines, Hustler Casino; BBQs Galore; Gardena Chamber of Commerce; Planet Fitness, Time Warner and more.
  • Chage and Aska: Narrator on album “Yin & Yang”.
  • Cara Jones wrote and co-hosted a weekly radio program with Barry White.
  • Cara Jones announced the medalists of all outdoor events at the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano.
  • Cara Jones is the US English voice of the GPS car navigation system of models of the Jaguar, Land Rover, Cadillac, and Mercedes Benz.

singer-songwriter

TV – Film – Games

  • Dawsons Creek: The song “Spit It Out” was featured in episode #511 "Something Wild"
  • Arc the Lad: The singing voice of Shante on “Musicman”
  • Shenmue: English voice of Hisaka Sawano/Mayumi Mishima/Lidia Bennett (Sega)
  • Fighting Vipers: voice of Jane (Sega)
  • Legend of Heroes IV: Vocals and lyrics on "One Bead of Scarlet"
  • Tobe Pegasus!: Lyrics on "The Simple Things"
  • Girl Play (2004 Feature Film): Original music
  • Give or Take an Inch (2003 Short Film): Original music
  • Sugar Sweet (2001 Feature Film): Original music

Discography

Solo albums

YearAlbumNotesAvailability
2000NOWOriginally released in 1999 in Japan by Warner Music Group (WEA). Released worldwide in 2000 by Fall Girl Records fully remixed and remastered, and with new cover art.Available on

carajones.com or CD Baby , iTunes, Spotify and all digital services

1996Pandora’s BoxReleased in 1996 in Japan by Teichiku Records. Re-release December 2016 by Fall Girl Records/Carasmatic fully remixed by Juan de Dios Martín and remastered and with Bonus Track.iTunes, Spotify and all digital services
1994Different SkiesOriginally released in 1994 in Japan. Released worldwide in by Fall Girl Records.Available on

carajones.com or CD Baby

Other Artists (highlights)

ArtistAlbum/SingleSongLabel Info
Puffy AmiYumiAn Illustrated History"True Asia”Bar None Records (BRN-CD-128 released 10.02 - USA)
Puffy AmiYumiThe Monsters Project 2002"True Asia”Sony Records (SRCL-5115 released 10.24.01 - Korea and Japan)
Yoshitaka MinamiNude Voice"SkyBlue"Victor Entertainment (VICJ-60740 released 2.21.01 - Japan)
The Yellow MonkeySugar Fix (maxi-single)" Sugar Fix" and “Bulb”Japan - Fun House Records (FHCF-2428 released 8.21.98), UK - BMG Records (74321 -605372 released 8.12.98)
ZabadakOto"Fatal Flaw" and "14 no Oto"Pioneer LDC (BICL-5009 released 1.27.99
Mimori YusaHarmonica Beach"Clover"Toshiba-Emi (ESDB-3740 released 1.22.97 - Japan)

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