Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru, who also goes by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese American singer and songwriter. After releasing the commercially unsuccessful English-language album Precious under the stage name "Cubic U" in 1998, she rose to prominence in 1999 with the release of her second album, First Love, which sold over eight million copies in Japan and became the best selling Japanese-language album of all time...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth19 January 1983
CountryJapan
There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.