Crystal Kay (20) is to team up with Beethoven for her next single. She has been chosen to sing the theme tune to next January’s anime version of Fuji TV’s drama series “Nodame Cantabile”. The single has yet to be titled but with feature segments of the first movement from Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. The series is an adaptation of a popular manga that sold over 18 million copies. The live-action version currently airing stars Ueno Juri (20) and Tamaki Hiroshi (26) and has had respectable audience ratings. The soundtrack has reached No.7 on the Oricon chart, the highest ever ranking by an album of classical music. Full name Crystal Kay Williams, the half-Korean half-African American, Yokohama-born singer is known to fans as ‘Kurikei’ or just ‘Kuri’. She made her debut at the tender age of four, singing a TV commercial theme, and appeared in her first commercial with her singer mother when she was just six. She released her first single at 13.