Ayumi Hamasaki

Name: Ayumi Hamasaki

Japanesename: ,

Chinese name:

Date of birth: October 2cnd, 1978

Current age: 31

Birthplace: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: Singer, Actress

Zodiac: Libra

Nickname: Ayu

Height : 156 cm

Weight : 40kg

Measurement : 80-53-82

Lessons : Piano, Japanese calligraphy (5th rank), abacus calculation, Japanese flower arrangement, Kumonshiki study system.

Information:

Favorite Female Entertainers : Keiko (Globe), Rie Miyazawa, Seiko Matsuda

Musical Influences : As a child I listened to rock music (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple), influenced by a relative. Now I like listening to soul music such as Babyface and En Vogue.

Favorite Actors : Nicolas Cage, Rie Miyazawa

Favorite Movies : The Bodyguard, Betty Blue, Leaving Las Vegas

People I Respect : People who have things I dont have.

People I Dislike : Liars, people who dont say hello.

Current Interest : Collecting white things for my room

Favorite Food : Biscuits (maybe my staple diet!), cakes, chocolates, kimchee (Korean marinated cabbage)

Favorite Things to Read : Most of the fashion magazines. Modern-language translations of the Manyo tanka poems are especially interesting. Poems of Natsuo Giniro, Mitsuo Aida, etc.

Then a friend who worked at the club, owned by the record label Avex, invited Ayumi Hamasaki out for a night of karaoke that forever changed her life. The friend had also invited Masato (Max) Matsuura, who introduced himself to Hamasaki as a producer. Id never heard of Avex, Hamasaki recalls, laughing. When he asked if I wanted to pursue a singing career, I said, No way. He was this older guy, and I thought the whole thing sounded fishy. Over the following year, though, Matsuura persisted. Finally she relented to his request that she at last attend vocal training, only because I had nothing better to do. But the classes

were dull and the teachers harsh. I felt like Id gone back to school, she says. If there are rules and regulations, I cant help it, I want to break them.

Ayumi Hamasaki is complicit in the brutal arithmetic of fame: trading the freedom she cherished for the right to tell her story through songs. Indeed, she has transcended mere songstress status and become something even more venerated in our consumer driven society. Its necessary that I am viewed as a product, she says. I am a product.

Despite the fact that Ayumi Hamasaki is a petite 51 singer, shes a huge legend all over Asia. Apart from being a singer, Hamasaki is a fashion leader, an actress, a model, a spokeswoman, a composer and songwriter. She is the ultimate icon of fashion and music in Japan, is known as the Empress of J-Pop and is considered the Asian equivalent of Madonna. Consequently she is one of the most popular and influential artists ever to appear in Asia. However, till the present day, Ayumi remains an enigma and is frequently misunderstood by many.

TV works these years

Namahoso wa Tomaranai as herself (TV Asahi, 2003)

Yami no Purple Eye (TV Asahi, 1996)

Kitto Dareka ni Au Tame Ni (TV Tokyo, 1996, ep9)

Miseinen (TBS, 1995)

Songs in TV shows

"forgiveness", from Kougen e Irasshai (TBS, 2003)

"Voyage", from My Little Chef (TBS, 2002)

"Endless Sorrow", from Mukashi no Otoko (TBS, 2001)

"Seasons", from Tenki-yoho no Koibito (Fuji TV, 2000)

"Love Since 1999", from Semi-Double (Fuji TV, 1999)

Movie works

Twins Teacher (1993)

Battle Spirits Ryko no Ken (1993)

Sumomo mo Momo (1995)

Miseinen (1995)

Ladys Ladys!! Soucho Saigo no Hi (1995)

Like Grains of Sand (1995)

Gakko II (1996)

Tsuki ni Shizumu (2002)

Trivia:

Grew up in a single parent home with mother and grandmother.

Was the highest earning entertainer in Japan (2002).

Started modeling since age 7. Was the first artist to have 4 singles on the Japan top 10 charts simultaneously.

Won MTV Asias Best Female Artist Award (2002).

Ayumi Hamasaki, hot singer from Japan.