Ayumi Hamasaki
Name: Ayumi Hamasaki
Japanese name: 浜崎あゆみ, はまさき あゆみ
Chinese name: 滨崎步
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 don’t have.
People I Dislike : Liars, people who don’t 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. “I’d 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 I’d gone back to school,” she says. “If there are rules and regulations, I can’t 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. “It’s necessary that I am viewed as a product,” she says. “I am a product.”
Despite the fact that Ayumi Hamasaki is a petite 5′1″ singer, she’s 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 Ryûko 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.
Ayumi Hamasaki, hot singer from Japan.
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