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Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker
Hikki's mom was very famous? I don't think she was that famous at all....
Anyway, wanna listen to japanese best vocals? Sorry but Hikki loses the spot easily to artists like Ayaka, Asuca hayashi and mink. Those three don't sound like they're having an asthma attack while singing, while Hikki....sorry Hikki, I love you even so.
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You do know that the news article about having no.1 and no.2 albums by a female solo artist at the same time on the Oricon album chart was "done again" by Ayu, right?
Well, 36 years ago, guess who the last artist was that achieved that?
Hikki's mom. Keiko Fuji.
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Keiko Fuji (藤 圭子 Fuji Keiko), real name Junko Utada (宇多田純子 Utada Junko, Born July 5, 1951 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan), is an enka singer and actresss well known in Japan. She had success in the 1960s and 1970s with her ballad-type songs.
She is also the mother of one of the currently most popular female singers in Japan, Utada Hikaru, and is the wife of Teruzane Utada, a record producer.
All current gossip and rumours aside (see below), she is one of the most gifted singers ever to grace a microphone in her country Japan, and her voice is as important to the genre of Enka music (popular in the 1960s and 70s) as singer Tammy Wynette is to Country and Western music. Under-rated, under-appreciated, and now besmirched, still, no one can take away Fuji Keiko's immense talent and ability to move people's emotions with her voice. She is a far superiour singer than any other who has ever recorded in the Japanese language, including her formidable superstar daughter, who has clearly inherited her mother's talents.
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BTW, Hikki has terrible stage presence. Like, Kaori Mochida of ELT can't really sing that well anymore, but hell, she puts on an amazing show
