When did Ayu start using her Vibrato??
 

I haven't really noticed her current heavy vibrato in her earliest works... so I'm really wondering when did she actually started it?

i was thinking HEAVEN/teens at AT06? before then i don't think she used it as much, except for in Voyage

Year 2000 IMO

nope...i think recent years only.around 2007

I think she started using it around Duty, because some songs on Duty have vibrato.

hmm,i think i have to listen back to her old songs again :s

I haven't listened to LOVEppears for a while, but for some reason I can remember hearing a vibrato in that album. If not then Duty. The "a~a~a~a~" kind of thing we hear now, I noticed during the AT06 DVD.

She pretty much forced her vibrato since... 2007-ish I guess.

She uses some vibrato on LOVEppears too~...

...really? i hear nothing lol

^ It's very mild but you can hear it in Trauma. :P

I think Ayu started Vibrato from album LOVEppears, some of her song like TO BE, Love ~refrain~, Who, etc. You may listen she sings like vibrate.

If you hear appears, she's actually using a little bit vibrato there. I think the first "visible" (? lol) vibrato were in Sotsugyou Shashin from A BALLADS.

I'm interested because I can notice that her voice is being changing a lot since she started. and plus, I do singing so I'm always interested in how voices change and mature with time, training, etc :)

So, I'm right huh?

ohh ok :) I was just trying to xplain my point but ok xD

:lech

Also Voyage~.

i think she had started to use her vibrato since Free & Easy...
I think it was after she had surgery with her cheekbone...

i was thinking quite early in her career..

Well, her voice started "shaking" as she sung sometime during LOVEppears. Of course, that doesn't REALLY count as a vibrato if a vibrato in Ayu standards goes like ThISisISisISis.

Ayu held her notes quite still during I am... though. Like, a good example would be A song is born. She had a lot of places where she could have just used a vibrato but she held the note instead in the chorus. She did do a little bit of vibrato but I don't think it was until Voyage that it became obvious. :P

Voyage's vibrato is quite famous I think. At the time, people made fun of it because it was quite new and all. :P Nowadays people are used to it though.

Edit: And it's quite strange for people to say she started using her vibrato in 2007 because Ayu did a lot of vibrato in her lives during 2002-4 ish when she performed Voyage and No way to say and so on.

^and forgiveness is like... the over-vibrato ballad of death xD

Yes, there is mild vibrato in LOVEppears and it becomes a little more prominent in Duty. It's definitely more audible in her I am... album. However, you can certainly hear it stick out in the H single (I can't remember any vibrato in Free & Easy...). So, I'd say 2002 is where it REALLY started to become quite... "obvious," for lack of a better word. :P

And yes, as everyone else said: Voyage. :P

Ayumi is certainly capable of a natural sounding vibrato. I can hear it in her voice. ;) But I guess she just likes to (over)exaggerate it. lol XD

it's very nice if you use it correctly, and it's very hard to master. it took me a while, but i've gotten there.