Utada Hikaru Profile
Name: Utada Hikaru (Hikaru Utada)
Japanese name: 宇多田光, 宇多田ヒカル
Nickname: Hikki ヒッキー, Cubic U
Birth date: January 19th, 1983
Birthplace: New York, USA
Height: 158cm
Blood type: A
Husband: Kazuaki Kiriya
Language spoken: English and Japanese
Profession: Singer and song writer
Dreams: Become a writer, open a small bookshop and become a clerk there, work part-time at a cafe
Hobbies: Literature, spicy stuffs, photography and web-surfing
Specialties: Touch typing, Tetris, biting the bullet, reading minds, moving just the smallest toe of my left foot, full leg splits and other instances of flexibility
Favourite places: Mexico, Machu Picchu and the Sahara Desert
Favourite artists: Nine Inch Nails, Mozart, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Bartok, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Edith Piaf, Cocteau Twins, Jeff Buckley, Chick Corea, The Blue Nile, Freddie Mercury, Bjork, Yutaka Ozaki, and Hibari Misora
Favourite movies: Amadeus, Crash, Munich, Brazil, Tasogare Seibei, Lost Highway, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather Part II, The Jerk, Orlando, and works by Hayao Miyazaki
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Utada Hikaru Biography
Utada Hikaru was born in a family with both Japanese parents involved in music industry; Utada’s music talent was nurtured in an early age and she showed her potential by recording her first English album “Precious” at the age of 12.
Precious was not actually released in US, but later discovered by a Japanese producer and released it in Japan in 1998. The album received some good reviews and Utada Hikaru, at age of 15 back then, was gradually gaining fame.
Seeing Utada’s potential, the Japan recording company (Toshiba-EMI) convinced her to release her Japanese album instead.
Utada Hikaru released her first Japanese single “Automatic” in 1999 and was an instant hit. Shortly after that Utada released her first Japanese album, “First Love” that sold over 10 million copies across Asia. “First Love” is still until today the best selling music album in Japan.
In 2000 Utada went back to US for further study in Columbia University; her university life was interrupted when she released her 2nd and 3rd Japanese album “Distance” (2001) and “Deep River” (2002) which both sold for multi million copies.
Utada Hikaru didn’t finish her university studies due to health issues and a busy successful singing career.
Utada Hikaru then surprised many when she married Kazuaki Kiriya, a photographer she worked with numerous times, shortly after the released of Deep River in 2002.
In 2004 Utada Hikaru released her ambitious English album “Exodus” that was not very successful in US market. Her single “Devil Inside” however managed to become a disco club hit and claimed #1 spot at Billboard Hot Dance/Club Airplay charts.
Utada Hikaru has just released her 4th Japanese album, “Ultra Blue” in June 2006.
Utada’s musical success is often compared to another Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki, especially in the early 2000s. Their rivalry is not as fierce now with the rising of other Japanese pop stars.
Why I like Utada Hikaru
I like Utada Hikaru’s music. I first listened to Automatic and thought that it’s a good song; then with First Love, which is still one of my favorite Japanese songs.
I admire Hikki’s talent as a complete artist in singing, songwriting and album producing… which is not often in Asian music industry.
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March 25th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
i rEALLy loVE Y\U’R sONG enTITLEd “FIrst loVE,”,,,,, Dat wAS SO Nyce
hOPE 2 HEAr soME OF u’r LOve sONGS….
March 25th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
i rEALLy loVE Y\U’R sONG enTITLEd “FIrst loVE,”,,,,, Dat wAS SO Nyce
hOPE 2 HEAr soME OF u’r LOve sONGS….
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
luv ur songs
July 19th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
me and my family love your songs! i just wanted to share something…………when i was i think…8 years old……i was a member of the primary angels’ choir…….we actually sang and danced your song “automatic”…..we were actually wearing a kimono and we removed it..(we have inner clothes) it was soooo cute!………but my favorite is actually…..first love………
October 21st, 2009 at 1:07 am
I wish her luck …for her and her daughter.
hope she will give birth soon^^
November 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. That’s my pueblo.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. Rey Mysterio.
Ya llego el Rey Mysterio.
Bato cabron de San Diego.
Flash up on the scene like a brown crusader.
Blowing up screens like space invaders.
Too much damage for one to manage.
Going 51 50 ‘speaky Spanglish.’
Aste a un lado estoy pesado.
Vivo la vida peleando pecados.
Estados Unidos al otro lao.
A puebla Canada 619 solao.
Do it for my people yeah you gotta love it.
‘Mexican’ across the stomach.
So think nothing of it
but love it.
Trucha de la calle a la lucha.
Siempre represento con mi chacho cachucha.
619 simo that’s my corra.
San Diego, Puerto Rico sinaloa.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. That’s my pueblo.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. Rey Mysterio.
What you gonna do when we come for you?
Correle. Correle. Andale.
What you gonna do when we come for you?
Correle. Correle. Andale.
Mira, mira. Watcha, Watcha.
Cuidado con los celos porque matan.
Booyaka Booyaka el regeton.
Me moda no Mysterio esta cabron.
One, two, three. Este boy’s outta that’s deep.
Como la ves.
Facil como uno, dos, tres.
Mr. DJ, play that rola otra vez.
And watch how many people go off.
Under the wooden cross, who’s the boss.
Nadie brinca brinca.
De el cielo Con mi voz brillo el cielo.
Alto porque me duele la alma.
Y deje mi cartera en Tijuana.
El soldado enmascarado ten cuidado.
paisa paisa estas pasado.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. That’s my pueblo.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. Rey Mysterio.
What you gonna do when we come for you?
Correle. Correle. Andale.
What you gonna do when we come for you?
Correle. Correle. Andale.
Making universal, speaking English.
The way we flip it is hard to distinguish.
Booyaka Booyaka el reggaeton.
Mic check. Mic check. 1, 2, it’s on.
Look at me now, el tijuanero.
Amazing the world con mascara de cuero.
Mira watcha el mero mero.
Disfruta la vida con todos sus perros.
It took a whole lot to get where I’m at.
But still ain’t got shit but tats on my back.
Ink on my chest, and up down my arms.
I made it true stories and put in a song.
La voz inocente en mi gente.
Truena fuerte como cuente.
That’s just life in the 619. So hey, DJ, hit me one more time.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. That’s my pueblo.
Booyaka. Booyaka. 619 (Hey)
Booyaka. Booyaka. Rey Mysterio.
What you gonna do when we come for you?
Correle. Correle. Andale.
What you gonna do when we come for you?
Correle. Correle. Andale.
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
i like youre first love song it really touch ones heart.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 pm
“first love”
emank keren dueh
sukses buat utada hikaru, tour ke indonesia kek sekali”
August 31st, 2010 at 11:47 pm
i like it ..^^