YouTuber Spotlight: JoyDreamerJourney
By Jada B.
JoyDreamerJourney is a Danish utaite (someone who uploads musical content on YouTube or Nico Nico Douga that falls under the “utattemita” category) who sings Vocaloid, Anime, and Video Game music. She sings covers in English, Japanese, Danish, and German. JoyDreamerJourney has 40,048 subscribers and 5,599,349 total views (as of 2/3/15). Along with recording covers, she draws, makes her own music, and is the leader of her voice drama channel VoiceoftheValkyrie.
JoyDreamerJourney, also known as Joy or Anne Marie Joy Jørgensen, was born on August 2. She has lived in both Denmark and Germany, but was born in Denmark. She started her utaite career in 2010 on an old channel on which she covered Anime-only music. She later discontinued that channel and began JoyDreamerJourney in 2011. Her first cover on this new channel was Last Night, Good Night by Hatsune Miku (Miku Hatsune), which was uploaded on December 8, 2011. Her most recent cover (as of 2/3/15) is ECHO, a song “performed” by Megpoid Gumi (Gumi Megpoid) and created by Crusher-P.
Joy is often seen collaborating with fellow utaites, such as aFlowerSmiles and Akushi. She is a “member of StARdom (in the VOCA*FUSION Chorus Battle) and a participant of the KCEDB1 with Akushi.” (UtaiteWiki) JoyDreamerJourney released her first album, Towards Eternity, on April 23, 2014. It can be bought on BandCamp.