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ABOUT AYUMI
Ayumi Hamasaki is Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and model. She was born on 2 October 1978 in Fukuoka. She moved to Tokyo for her career when she was 14. She is one of the most popular and the most successful singer in Japan. Till now she published 9 studio albums (+ 5 complition albums + remix albums). She has sold around 50 million records in Japan, ranking her among the best-selling singers in the country (4th place). As a female singer, Hamasaki holds several domestic records for her singles, such as the most number-one hits, the highest sales, and the most million-sellers. From 1999 to 2008, Ayumi had at least one single each year top the charts.
Popularity of her music today is above Japan. Ayumi was experimenting with most of the genres like rock, r&b, dance, trance, metal, progressive rock, pop and classic music.
FACTS
• Produces her own music under the name CREA (a name of one of her dogs)
• Grew up in a single parent home with mother and grandmother, she never knew her father
• The song "A Song for XX" is written to her father
• Started modeling since age 7
• Has her own wax statue in the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Hong Kong
• Ayumi hosted her own tv show, AYU READY? (2002-2004)
DISCOGRAPHY
• NEXT LEVEL (2009)
• A Complete ~All Singles~ (2008)
• GUILTY (2008)
• A BEST 2 -Black- (2007)
• A BEST 2 -White- (2007)
• Secret (2006)
• (miss)understood (2006)
• MY STORY Classical (2005)
• MY STORY (2004)
• Memorial Address (2003)
• A Ballads (2003)
• RAINBOW (2002)
• I Am... (2002)
• A Best (2001)
• DUTY (2000)
• LOVEppears (1999)
• A Song for XX (1999)
• Nothing from Nothing (1995)
Group Sources
ayumi.primenova.com , www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/en/ , http://pokerface.blog.hr
