hikaru utada

Singer

http://www.utadanet.com and http://www.emimusic.jp/hikki/index_e.htm

Literature will remain my eternal passion! Books are property. I'm keeping all the books I read. My books take up more space than my clothes. Buying furniture, collecting interior goods. Of course email is an indispensable tool for business and private life, but I cruise the Net too. I learned about several sites from Toshiba EMI's engineer. They are awesome quite interesting, Mesdames! I recommend first of all two of them, Modern Living and otogaiworld. Visit them late at night, then they'll be further to the point. Internet mail order Stimulant seasonings such as Tabasco, red chili pepper, sesame oil with chili peppers, vinegar and wasabi.

Kenji Nakagami, "Izoku"; Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "Rashomon", Yasunari Kawabata, "Kanjo Soshoku, " "Yukiguni", Ogai Mori, "Takasebune", Soseki Natsume "Kokoro, " "Kusamakura", Kenji Miyazawa (poetry), Yukio Mishima "Kinkakuji", Taruho Inagaki, Junichiro Tanizaki when I want to pursue eros, Yutaka Haniya, "Shiryo" I read bit by bit, Hermann Hesse. Read "Siddhartha" and "Happiness" and "Steppenwolf" as finale, then you'll be fully satisfied! (I recommend the translation by Kenji Takahashi), Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Letter from Basement" "Crime & Punishment", Roald Dahl, "Tales of the Unexpected", Shel Silverstein, "Where the Sidewalk Ends, " "A Light in the Attic", Edgar Allan Poe, Elie Wiesel, "Night", John Berendt, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby." George Orwell "1984"

Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Tasogare Seibei, Lost Highway, (Pi), Shawshank Redemption, Godfather Part 2 (I like Robert De Niro), The Jerk, Unbreakable, Orlando, Amadeus, Sleepy Hollow, Works by Hayao Miyazaki

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chuichi!

Capricorn

Date of Birth: Born in New York on January 19, 1983
The same birth date as Yuming, a colleague in the same company; writer/poet Edgar Allan Poe whom I fell in love with in junior-high school; Ogai Mori, a writer of Japan's literary history; and dear Mr. Udo Suzuki, another person Japan is proud of. Please let me know if anyone you know is born on the same date.

Height: 158 cm It's my height, honest. It hasn't changed since my debut. I wonder if that means my growth is totally over?

Blood Type: A Well! True born type!, 'cause both of my parents are A. It's a common type among Japanese, isn't it?

Hobbies: Literature remains my eternal passion! I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. I rushed into a bookstore which sells books in Japanese, and bought about 15 books in one swoop... I stay at home and have been grappling with the books like a hungry beast. Buying furniture, collecting furniture and interior goods Though I said I've been growing my hair long, I've had it cut. Ou, la, la. (Girls who had their hair short once would know this feeling?) Of course email is a tool indispensable for business and private life, but cruise the Net too. I learned about several sites from Toshiba EMI's engineer the other day. They are awesome -- quite interesting, Mesdames! I recommend first of all two of them, Modern Living and otogaiworld-------. Visit them late at night, then they'll be further to the point.


Favorite Artists: I have many many more favorite artists than listed below. I have too many, in fact, and they are constantly increasing. Anyhow, here are some...
Freddie Mercury (Queen), Yutaka Ozaki, Bjork, Janet Jackson, Minnie Riperton, Slash (Guns 'n' Roses), Joe, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, Craig David, Garbage, No Doubt, GLAY, Guru, Enigma, Blink182, Miles Davis, Mozart, Blue Man Group, At the Drive-in, Erykah Badu, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Bartok, Edith Piaf.

See me at my Official Website:
http://www.emimusic.jp/hikki/index_e.htm

Learn more about me at :

http://www.utadanet.com

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B I O G R A P H Y

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She was born in New York City, New York to Japanese parents who both had roots in the Japanese music industry: her father, Teruzane Utada, was a producer, while her mother, Junko Utada, was an enka singer (she performed under the stage name "Keiko Fuji"). She made her first professional recording at the age of twelve, and recorded her first album, ''Precious'', in 1996 under the pseudonym Cubic U. The album led to her career overseas. In a recent MTV interview (MTV's ''You Hear It First'', October 2004), Utada said: "Someone in Japan heard it, at a Japanese record company, and he said, 'Oh, can't you write in Japanese? You speak Japanese.' And I didn't want to say no, so I had to try it."She is currently married to Kazuaki, a photographer and movie director. He directed several of her music videos, including "Final Distance", "Traveling", "Hikari", "Sakura Drops", "Deep River", "Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro", "You Make Me Want to Be a Man", "Be My Last", and "Passion". Also, "Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" was played during the credits of Kiriya's best-known film, ''Casshern''.

"Time Will Tell"

She moved to Tokyo later that year and attended The American School in Japan, while continuing to record on a new contract with Toshiba/EMI. She soon made her mark on Japanese music with her successful single "Automatic", soon followed by the album ''First Love'', which sold over five million copies in a month during March and April of 1999, and placed Utada among the 100 wealthiest people in Japan. She also broke the record of units sold on a single album in Japan; she still holds the record (in 2005).The album has sold more than ten million copies in Asia.


L I S T O F H I K K I ' S S O N G S:

* A.S.A.P.
* About Me
* Animato
* Automatic
* Be My Last
* Beautiful World
* Blow My Whistle
* Blue (Utada Hikaru)
* Boku wa Kuma
* Bridge (Interlude)
* By Your Side
* Can You Keep a Secret
* Celebrate
* Close to You
* Colors
* Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro
* Deep River (song)
* Devil Inside
* Easy Breezy
* Eclipse (Interlude)
* Exodus '04
* Fight the Blues
* Final Distance
* First Love (Utada Hikaru single)
* Flavor of Life
* Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
* For You
* Gentle Beast Interlude
* Hayatochiri
* Heart Station
* Hikari (Utada Hikaru)
* Hotel Lobby
* Kairo
* Keep Tryin'
* Kettobase!
* Kiss & Cry
* Kotoba ni Naranai Kimochi
* Kremlin Dusk
* Let Me Give You My Love
* Letters
* Making Love
* Nichiyou no Asa
* Niji-iro Bus
* One Night Magic
* Opening
* Passion
* Play Ball
* Prisoner of Love
* Sakura Drops
* Sanctuary (Utada Hikaru)
* Shiawase ni Narou
* Simple and Clean
* Stay Gold
* Take 5
* The Workout
* This is Love
* Ticket 4 Two
* Time Limit
* Tippy Toe
* Tokyo Nights
* Traveling
* Uso Mitai na I Love You
* Wait & See ~Risk~
* Wings (Utada Hikaru)
* Wonder 'Bout
* You Make Me Want to Be a Man

ALBUMS:

1997 - "Cubic U - Precious"
1999 - 1st Album "First Love"
2001 - 2nd Album "Distance"
2002 - 3rd Album "DEEP RIVER"
2004 - 4th Album "Single Collection 1"
2004 - 5th Album "Exodus"

LIVE PERFORMANCES:

2000 - "Bohemian Summer 2000"
2001 - "Utada Hikaru Unplugged"
2003 - "Utada Hikaru Live Streaming"
2004 - "Utada Hikaru in Budokan 2004"

LATEST:

A new single has been announced from the "HEART STATION" album, "Prisoner of Love" will be released as a CD + DVD single on May 21, 2008.

CD
01. Prisoner Of Love
(main theme for Fuji TV’s Drama “Last Friends”)
02. Prisoner Of Love -Quiet Version-
03. Prisoner Of Love (Original Karaoke)
04. Prisoner Of Love -Quiet Version-
(Original Karaoke)

DVD
01. Prisoner Of Love　(Video Clip)

Check out the previews for the video too:
http://www.emimusic.jp/hikki/release/index_e.htm