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Originally Posted by 4minute Girl
is this real
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1) Hikaru is not native Japanese. She's an American citizen born in New York
2) In one of the interviews, she comments about how people mistake her for being native Japanese, and say to her: "Your English is really good!" To which she replies "Well yours isn't bad either!"
3) In the video Hikari, she washes dishes..... the entire video
4) Check the amazing Tetris competition out in Youtube. It's frightening how they play. And yes, she did win 26-4.
5) In an interview for her album "This is the one", she describes how it was funny how a bunch of geeks could make such refined, elegant songs.
6) "Flavor of life" was the song she sung at the time of her divorce.
7) In her song "Boku wa Kuma", the lyrics goes "I am a bear, a bear, a bear, a bear. Not a car, a bear, a bear, a bear".
8) In an interview, she describes her singing as actually a secondary occupation - almost an afterthought, with her writings, compositions and arrangements as her primary objectives.
9) Yes, Zhou Jie Lun can sing, dance, act, direct, play 10 instruments and also owns two restaurants =)
10) Hikaru was indeed asked to describe Hamasaki Ayumi once on a radio station. Hikaru said that they weren't rivals, and that Hamasaki Ayumi was very popular, pretty and writes all her own songs. The radio host replied "And how is that different to you?"
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11. Hikaru Utada was an American who was born into a privileged family. Her father was a successful music producer, her mother a famous singer.
12. Hamasaki Ayumi on the other hand was born into poverty, her parents divorcing while she was young and she was raised up by her grandmother. When Hamasaki Ayumi first met Matsuura Max, he commented that her singing was poor and suggested she should do singing lessons.
13. Hamasaki Ayumi is half-deaf.
14. The total sales of Hikaru Utada is approximately 35 million and Hamasaki Ayumi's total sales is approximately 45-50 million.
15. The comment about world's best singer/songwriter in the last decade is an interesting one. In 2000 to 2010, estimate sales for some top singers/band include: Spears (43m), Rihanna (15m), Hamasaki Ayumi (40m), Norah Jones (40m), Hikaru Utada (25m) Coldplay (40m) Mariah Carey (15m), Aguilera (25m) U2 (20m), Madonna (30m), Beyonce (23m).
Out of all the artists in the world, I think only Coldplay, Britney and Norah Jones could have outsold Hamasaki Ayumi in 2000-2010. But Coldplay is a band while Britney and Norah don't write all their songs. Norah Jones for example only wrote 3songs from her best-selling album.