Just looking around

May 2008

Fukuoka Japan

Studio Seven Recordings, Sony Music Japan

http://profiles.friendster.com/yuiyoshioka87

Tsuichiro, Kamikirakua, Utsuramayo

Singer.song-writer and actress

Bianco nero and Oricon

Movies, reading, wriing songs, acoustic guitar, and playing badminton

Anything

FROM ME TO YOU, CAN'T BUY MY LOVE, I LOVED YESTERDAY, THANK YOU MY TEENS AND TAIYOU NO UTA

[2004.12.24] It's Happy Line, [2005.02.23] Feel My Soul, [2005.06.22] Tomorrow's Way, [2005.11.09] Life, [2006.01.18] Tokyo, [2006.06.14] Good-bye Days, [2006.09.20] I Remember You, [2007.01.17] Rolling Star, [2007.03.07] Che.R.Ry, [2007.06.13] My Generation / Understand, [2007.09.29] Love & Truth, [2008.02.27] Namidairo, [2008.07.02] Summer Song

Mazemashi TV

I began writing poems in ninth grade. At the age of 16, by recommendation of my friend, I began studying singing, songwriting, and guitar at a private music school in my hometown in Fukuoka. Aspiring to become professional, I carried my guitar around and performed at local areas like the seashore of Shingu and the middle of Kaminofu's rice fields.

In March 2003, at an audition hosted by Sony Music Japan, all of the judges evaluated me with the highest score, which caused a fierce scramble among labels. At this audition, I sang three songs: "Why me" (which was later coupled with my debut single), "It's happy line", and "I know" - though the audition rules stated that a participant could only sing two songs. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, I strummed my guitar and sang. The judges and the others present at the audition claimed that "the performance created a tremendous aura from her heavenly voice, and captured the hearts of the whole audience". It's happy line was then released as an indie single in December 2004, with "I know" as the second track.

Upon leaving Fukuoka for Tokyo, I wrote the song "feel my soul". I was planning to release it on an indie label as a tribute to my hometown, when the song caught the ears of Fuji TV producer, Mr. Yamaguchi, who happened to see the demo video clip. He claimed my voice haunted him so much that he went out of his way to visit the recording studio himself. He even made his channel's prime-time drama "Fukigen na Gene" an extraordinary tie-in with my debut track.

Although I am not the most comfortable when it comes to talking to people, I enjoys communicating with my audience at street performances in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka.

My first full album, FROM ME TO YOU, was released on February 22, 2006 to great acclaim. Among its 13 tracks, 9 of them were brand new, and these have been well received from her fans. The album has already sold quite well, reaching as high as the weekly 9th most sold album in Japan, and the main track, TOKYO, has reached the number 4 spot on the MTV Japan song charts.

I has been honing my acting and singing skills in a movie released in 17 June, 2006 called "Taiyou no Uta" (The Sun's Song), and has since been released in various Asian countries as well.

I released my second album entitled CAN'T BUY MY LOVE on April 4th, which had a more experimental sound to it, and went straight to #1 on the charts. My third album, I LOVED YESTERDAY was released April 9th 2008, hitting #1 on the charts yet again.
My family consists of my mother and myself only. As for my father, he left us when I was roughly 3 years old. That's why when I moved to Shinguu I only had one other family member. I hold no memory of my father.
I play drums and piano. I learned how to play the piano at the music school where I learned how to play the guitar.
I had about 7~8 acoustic guitars, 6~7 electric guitars and one bass guitar.
I likes Marimokkori.
I am "addicted" to Welch's Grape Fruit Juice. I drank this during the recording of my album I Loved Yesterday.
I doesn't smile in CD covers and promotion videos (except for I Remember You, Che.R.Ry and Laugh away) often because I think that my face looks chubby when I smile.

MY WEBSITE:
www.yui-net.com/


My fans.Because because of them,i'm here now.