JubyPhonic

JubyPhonic--aka Juliet Simmons--is a YouTube artist and professional voice actress/ vocalist. Sometimes going by Juby, she is a fairly new and popular YouTube singer who started singing in May 2012. With already well over 100 covers and 200,000 subscribers, she records mostly English covers of VOCALOID and anime songs, with her own translyrics. In 2015 she branched out-- she ran her first "Skochbox Summer Cover Contest". She also ran several fun live stream talk shows done with some of her utaite friends, "the unholy quartet", while bringing in other special guests from the community--with some fan participation.

She provides her own subs for her English covers. But when she first started she was using YouTube's annotation system and then hardsubs done by ericaohmg95 and OccasionalSubs. She also does some of the artwork for her site and covers, mixes audio and edits video.

Although she often does most of her work alone (excepting the rare duet or collab) in 2015 she started doing more elaborate projects and artistically directing her own paid collaborations, now made possible with the support of her fans thru Patreon.com.

Her voice has a characteristic stability, clarity, and brilliance along with a certain bounce to it. She is also known for being emotionally expressive and touching her fans hearts.

Her skill with incorporating idioms and correct pronunciation/syncopation in her Japanese to English translations has made her translyrics favorites of many of her fans. At best she manages to preserve the intended meaning and feeling in rhyme as well as in singable lyrics, while still hitting the appropriate beats of the original composer/lyricist. She supports her fan's creative expression and all creative works in general, thus her translyrics and covers are available for use as long as she (and the original work) is properly credited and used in projects for fun (non profit).

Her most popular cover is her English cover of "↑Jinsei Game↓" with almost 4 million views at the end of 2015. About 20 of her covers have over a million views.

She often depicts herself with pink/reddish hair, often with a yellow hoodie with long rabbit ears.

A professional voice actress, Juliet Simmons (real name), has been working for the last 3 years with Sentai Filmworks while still in college. She has been featured in supporting and leading roles in over 35 shows as of November 2015. She has also been featured as a vocalist. "Akame ga Kill" runs on national tv on Toonami on the cartoon network channel during Fall 2015 thru early 2016 where she's the voice of Kurome.

As of 2015 Juliet Simmons (aka JubyPhonic) has received invitations to conventions across the country, where she periodically appears as a guest artist and panelist, so she can meet some of her fans.

Before becoming a Utaite and a voice actress, she wrote her own comic strip called Juby's Word of the Day.

Trivia

 * She started performing in musical theater shows at age 3 and sang in school choirs beginning in elementary. At 12 she was taking private voice lessons---after attending all her siblings lessons since age 4.
 * She also grew up taking classes in stage & film acting, dance, choir, plus lots of art & electronic media classes.
 * She took Japanese classes in college.
 * She was in the gifted program thru most of school.
 * She often shared the musical theater stage with her siblings and parents. Being creative runs in the family--singers, lyricists, poets, writers, artists, dancers, actors as hobby/work. Her sisters work in NYC in entertainment.
 * She likes Kanno Yoko, Osamurai-san, Kikuo, Linkin Park, Lady Gaga, Coldplay and UVERWorld.
 * She loves to interact with her fans and replies sometimes to their YouTube comments and on her tumblr blog in a funny and teeny way. In 2015 her sister, Alissa, began helping to answer the many fans on YouTube.
 * She took the name "JubyPhonic P" because it rhymed with "Juby comics", which she had been drawing at that time. She added the P "because it seemed right".
 * She started going by just "Jubyphonic" after realizing that the P in her name can also stand for "producer".
 * She sings in English, because she thought she would be embarrassing herself by singing in Japanese, and writes her own translyrics, because normally dubs just don't live up to the original.
 * Her brother taught her how to mix. He writes original software and owns his own company, Awesomium.
 * Her sister, Genevieve Simmons, is a film/stage actress. A voice actor with Sentai, she has done supporting and lead roles in 40+ shows. She won BTVA Anime Dub Awards 2013 (Breakthrough Actress) plus made nominations in 2014. She is a guest at conventions.
 * Her eldest sister, Alissa Simmons, is a singer & film/stage actress. Interestingly, she did film capture for both Deunan and Nyx in Tokyo for "Appleseed Alpha" (2014). She sings cabaret shows in NYC and is an Off-Off Broadway theater company member--when she is not busy filming. She is a guest judge @ conventions.
 * Her whole family watches anime, reads manga, goes to conventions, and shares music files on Kanno Yoko, etc
 * She lives in Houston.
 * Her favorite utaite is kradness.
 * She has been working professionally as a voice actor for Sentai Filmworks for 3 years while still in college. She has done supporting and lead roles for over 35 shows as of November 2015. During Fall 2015 thru early 2016 she's been on national tv on Toonami on "Akame ga Kill" as the voice of Kurome.
 * She is a guest at conventions.[5]