2-year-old girl who sings in 'space language' becomes youngest artist to release an album

At the age of 2 years 358 days, talented Lynn Takei released her album Nonsense makes Sense in Yamaguchi, Japan.

Her album was released on multiple global music platforms and her achievement made her the world’s youngest female solo artist to release an album.

The young singer, who sings under the name Jalimpa, performed the entire album in ‘space language’, and describes it as "the first album of alternative music from another dimension."

Little Jalimpa loves singing; in her own words, “it makes [her] feel so good”.

If you only listen to one song by Jalimpa today, let it be her favourite, "Dali Dali don don".

Despite her young age, she has big dreams about her career and future: “I want to be big, bigger than the sky,” she said.

Nestled in the heart of the majestic Japanese Setonaikai National Park, Jalimpa grew up in a country house surrounded by the serene beauty of sea and forest, where the sounds of waves, insects, and birds served as her lullabies.

Remarkably, at just six months old and before really understanding the concepts of language or music, she began singing melodies.

By the age of one, she would climb on to the tokonoma, a traditional Japanese alcove, acting as if it was her stage, and dance and sing in the mysterious babble known as ‘cosmic language’.

“It seemed the collective unconscious of humanity, inherent in everyone at birth, was overflowing as song,” her parents explain.

That is how they first noticed their daughter’s talent for singing, and decided to start recording her.

Describing some of the difficulties they faced during the recording of the album, they said: “Her best performance often came when she was away from the recording microphone. The microphone had to chase her to capture it.”

In fact, Jalimpa likes to sing all day every day, so much so that her singing accompanies “almost every scene of her everyday life.”

Seeing her passion for music, the singer’s parents are determined to support her journey in any way they can.

“We have a lot of instruments at home […] and we give her access to any instruments she is interested in like the piano, the horn, the guitar, the Japanese traditional drums, the bells etc.”

All that being said, they are also very conscious about ensuring that she has a fun and ‘normal’ childhood: “We value her curiosity and do not force her to do anything so that she can have her own natural childhood.”

Jalimpa comes from an artistic family. When they realized she broke a world record they reacted with energetic enthusiasm singing Dali Dali don don and her mother, who is a picture book artist, captured the moment with a doodle.

When it comes to fellow parents who want to nurture their children’s talents, their advice is: “Just observe and let the kids do what they want to do. All kids have talent and let it flow out. 

“Adults are the ones who limit kids' potentials.”

Jalimpa’s music – and record breaking – career has just started, and we cannot wait to see what’s to come.