American singer (write here. Born in New York, USA. Its record company is EMI Music Japan, and its brokerage company is U3MUSIC. Nicknamed はヒッキー(Hikki).
First Love, the first album released at the age of 16 in p>1999, reached an unprecedented sales volume of 7.65 million, becoming the highest-selling album in Japanese history, with global sales exceeding 1 million. Including the highest position, Utada was among the top ten in the history of album sales in Japan, and she won three places alone. At a young age, she has been listed as the most successful singer in the history of Japanese music.
In p>27, the single Flavor Of Life was downloaded more than 7.2 million times, making it the second single in the history of the world. That year, she * * * had more than 12 million digital sales, making her the singer with the highest single-year digital sales in the world.
Besides being a singer, she writes lyrics and composes music by herself.
since the debut, the sales of all Japanese albums and the first English album have exceeded one million.
My father is a record producer and her current manager. Mother is a singer Keiko Fuji, who was a smash hit in the 197s and was known as the "Queen of Fantasy Singing".
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Personal profile
My parents are Japanese and grew up in new york, so my proficiency in Japanese and English is the level of my mother tongue. Excellent grades, advanced placement at the age of 17 to attend Columbia University.
Worship Japanese singer Yutaka Ozaki, who once sang his famous song I Love You at a concert and participated in the production of his tribute album. He worships the western singer Freddie Mercury, sings his famous song Living On My Own at concerts, and loves the Scottish orchestra Cocteau Twins. The way of singing is greatly influenced by Amel Larrieux.
is very good at Tetris, so he was invited by Nintendo to be the spokesman for NDS game consoles. Play live with 3 players at the arranged venue, with 26 wins and 4 losses. After that, I played against two Nintendo development engineers, one winning and one losing.
I love anime. There are hundreds of cartoons collected at home, such as evangelical warriors in the new century, hunters, wandering white books, slam dunks, Luanma 1/2, ghost in the shell and so on. Her theme song Beautiful World for the new theatrical version of gospel warriors in the new century is also related to her love for it since childhood.
I have an unknown crazy love for bears, and I have a big doll bear named "Kuma-chan". I chat with him every night before going to bed, and often upload photos to my personal blog.
I love painting. In fact, I originally wanted to be a cartoonist when I was a child, but I was repeatedly rejected by Jiying Society. I often take photos of my paintings and upload them to my blog. My paintings often take bears as the theme. He also loves literature and respects Poe. He once incorporated his name and the artistic conception of his poem The Raven into the lyrics.
I have personal relationships with Ky?ko Fukada, Kimura Takuya, Koshi Inaba, Yoshihiko Inohara, Juri Ueno, etc.
I like to drink and get drunk.
Name: Utada Hikaru; nickname: HIKKI
Place of birth: new york
Date of birth: January 19, 1983
Constellation: Aries
Blood type:. Tokoroten Thai food, Vietnamese food, vinegar, spicy food (once used a whole bottle of vinegar for 1 days, Sometimes even drink it directly)
Favorite animals: cats
Disgusting things: fluorescent lamps, mushrooms, boxes, toilets, dressing
Favorite dishes: making noodles with cups
Favorite album: Jeff Buckley's' Grace'
Interests: literature, buying furniture, collecting home decorations, E-mail. Stimulating seasonings such as vinegar and mustard
are strong: Tetris, quick computer play, patience, perfunctory saying "OK", making people feel at a loss, being able to move independently with the little finger on the left foot, cleaning up
dreams: becoming a writer (pen name has been decided long ago), opening a bookstore to work there, and creating a dream home
The place I want to go most. Peru), Sahara Desert
favorite movies: "Playing Xie Maigao Weizhi", "Brazil", "Dusk Seibee", "Crazy", "π", "Stimulating 1995", "Godfather 2" (I like Roberto Dinilo), "A Dai", "Soul-stirring" and "The Beautiful Woman Orlando". Yasunari Kawabata's Emotional Decoration, Snow Country, Mori ōgai's Takaseki Boat, Natsume Soseki's Heart, Straw Pillow, Kenji Miyazawa (I like his poems), Yukio Mishima's Kinkaku Temple, Inagaki's Foot Ear, Junichiro Tanizaki who wants to pursue erotic period, slowly reading the Nocturnal Necromancer, and reading Herman. (Kenji Takahashi's translation is recommended), Dostoevsky's Notes on the Basement, Crime and Punishment, Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, Schell Silverstein's Lost Corner, Light in the Attic, Edgar Allan Poe, Wiesel's Night, and John Behrendt's Midnight Garden of Good and Evil. (I'm not happy, go home! )/むにゃむにゃ (muttering)
Early (~ 1998)
On January 19th, 1983, Utada was born in new york and spent most of his childhood and adolescence there. The Utoda family is a musical family. Her father Utoda is a record producer, her mother Keiko Fuji is a successful singer, and her grandmother is also a blind Sanweixian musician.
As early as 1992, at the age of 9, she formed the band U3 with her parents and began to compose her own lyrics. In 1993, U3 released their album STAR, in which two songs, THANK YOU and Zi Gong たちの が こぇる (when hearing children's songs), were composed and sung by her.
In p>1997, she produced and published the single I'll Be Stronger in her personal capacity as Cubic U (cubic of U), and published it as a single by covering the famous song Close To You by the carpenter's brother and sister. In January, 1998, she released her first album Precious, which was published by Cubic U, and the lyrics were all in English. Except Close To You, all the tracks are composed by her own lyrics. However, due to the internal reorganization of EMI in the United States, this album has not been circulated in the United States, but only in Japan.
at first, she didn't aspire to music career, in fact, it can be said that it was just the opposite. "When I was a child, I saw my parents working so hard for music every day. Well, I want to say," I will never make music in the future! !" It seems crazy and unstable ... anyway, it seems to be a hard life, and I didn't understand their enthusiasm for music at that time. But I inherited the family business and came to make music, and now I seem to understand that passion. Not bad. "She mentioned in the interview.
After that, Mr. Akira Miyake of EMI, Japan, heard Utoda's English creation and asked her with great interest if she was interested in trying to publish Japanese songs. "When someone heard this-someone from a Japanese record company-he asked me," Oh? So you can write words in Japanese? Don't you speak Japanese ... "Then I said, OK, I'll try. Then I gave it a try, and as a result, this Japanese album was incredibly popular in Japan. " She recalled afterwards. At this time, Miyake Akira arranged his debut in Japan and signed her into Toshiba EMI.
the peak of Japanese market (1998-24)
Utada moved to Tokyo in the second half of 1998, where he attended American schools. On December 9th, she released her debut single Automatic/Time Will Tell in Japan under the name of Utada. In the first week, she sold just over 2, copies, but in the end, she sold 2.6 million copies, becoming the second single of female singers in Japanese history. On February 17th, 1999, the second single Movin' on without you was released, and the sales volume exceeded one million.
On March 1th, 1999, 16-year-old Utada released her first Japanese album First Love. It started at 2.2 million, and now it sells 7.65 million in Japan, breaking the historical record and becoming the highest-selling album in Japanese history. This record has been maintained to this day.
On April 1st, 1999, in Osaka, and on April 2nd, in Tokyo, she held two live concerts, Luv Live, which was her first live concert, and no films were handed down in this concert. On August 24th, she held another concert, Sokenbicha Natural Breeze Concert, in the Japanese budokan. This concert was more public, and it was shown on TV, but there was never a formal video sale. On October 7th, 1999, she performed a famous chorus with Ringo Shena. The track was I Won't Last a Day Without You, a famous song by the carpenter's brother and sister.
She was in Music Station on June 18th, 1999 and in HEY on June 21st! HEY! HEY! MUSIC CHAMP, who appeared in SmpXSMAP on July 12th, continuously set the ratings of 26.5%, 28.5% and 33.5%, and broke the record of the highest ratings of these three programs in one month (it was broken into the second place after 33.5% in SmpXSMAP).
At the end of p>1999, with this popularity, the following singles, Addicted To You, Wait &; See ~Risk~、For You / Time Limit、Can You Keep A Secret? All of them have achieved great success. Except for For You/Time Limit, the sales of the other three songs are all over 1.5 million. During the school summer vacation in July and August, 2, she began her first large-scale concert tour in Japan, BOHEMIAN SUMMER Circuit Live 2, and * * * sang 19 times. After that, she decided to leave her music career for a short time and go to Columbia University. However, before finishing a semester, she dropped out of school and devoted herself to her career as a singer. The main reason is that "... it doesn't seem so difficult to develop in Japan."
On March 28th, 21, the second Japanese album Distance was released. The initial movement was 3.2 million, setting a record for the highest initial movement in any ranking in the history of the world. At present, the sales volume in Japan is 4.47 million, which is the champion of Japan in 21 and the fourth album in Japanese history.
In January 21, she played a waitress in the winter drama HERO, which lasted only 15 seconds, but she became a rare representative in Utada.
On June 21, 21, at the age of 18, she was invited to sing on MTV Unplugged, becoming the youngest performer in the history of the show. Since the end of the year, she has successively released singles Traveling, Hikari, Sakura Drops/Letters, Final Distance. Except for the Final Distance, all the others are champion singles. Hikari was chosen as the theme song of the Japanese version of the game masterpiece kingdom hearts, while the global version was Simple And Clean, which rewrote the lyrics in English. This game has sold over eight million sets in the world, which is a great success, so this song is her most famous one in European and American markets. These single PV's are highly praised in Japan, which is largely due to the new director Kiriya Kazuaki, who started to associate with her during this period. In mid-22, on the eve of the release of the album DEEP RIVER, she was diagnosed with ovarian tumor and had to interrupt all publicity trips and have an emergency operation. After the operation, she must continue to receive drugs to control her condition until today. However, the treatment of this drug to control female hormones has the side effect of getting fat, which is the main reason for her appearance change in recent years.
On June 19th, 22, the third Japanese album DEEP RIVER was released. It started at 2.35 million, and now it sells 3.61 million in Japan, which is the champion of Japan in 22 and the eighth album in Japanese history. It is the first phenomenon in the world to win the annual championship in the same ranking three times.
On September 6th, 22, at the age of 19, she announced her marriage to Kiriya Kazuaki, a director 15 years older than her, which shocked the Japanese music scene. On that day alone, the official website received more than 3 million letters.
After that, her creative speed decreased greatly for two reasons: first, she was newly married, and second, she was ready to develop in the United States. In 23, she only produced a Japanese single Colors, which was made on her honeymoon in France, and this song added a strong experimental style. On January 19th, 23, on her 2th birthday, she held an online video Live to sing the 2th generation's most in! In a single day, the number of readings broke 21.3 million times. In February, 24, she held five concerts at the budokan, Utada Hikaru in Budokan 24, and selected 5, visitors for five days from 1.4 million letters.
on March 31st, 24, the first album Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol.1 was released, with an initial movement of 1.4 million. At present, the sales volume in Japan exceeds 2.58 million, making it the champion of Japan in 24 and the 35th album in Japanese history.
Looking at this period, during the short period of three years from 1999 to 22, this teenage newcomer recorded three works in the Top 1 of Oricon4's 4-year history album list, which was the one with the most works (the second was B'z's two works). This is a very strange phenomenon.
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