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
I'd been familiar with the recording process since I was little, but I felt that this is what it's like to actually do it myself.
When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
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.
I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.