[Yukitora]

Originally Posted by immel

She mentioned in an interview, I think I read it at masa's site, that her natural hair color is dark brown, not the usual intense black that is the usual color for all Japanese.

Usual colour for ALL Japanese? That doesn't even make sense. My hair colour is dark brown, not black, and it goes for half of my family of which both my mum and dad have jet black hair.

There are people in Japan who are naturally born with light brown/brunette hair. MANY asians actually have dark brown hair, but it is often generalized as black instead as it looks quite similar from distance.

Originally Posted by touchedstar

i think she might be half african-american actually. that explains why she suddenly got into gospel stuff with B&D and Pride. its obvious that she is coming to terms witht his side of herself.

Mika got into gospel music and she's not American. Why can't Ayu?

Originally Posted by evolusean

I feel like it might also explain her hyper-affinity for all things American. Aditionally, if her father was American, it may also speak words about why, pre-RAINBOW-forgiving-my-angry-and-sad-past, Ayu prefered sticking to all-Japanese lyrics. But strangely, she had almost entirely English titles.

All of YUI's song titles are written in English, yet she has no english blood. Why must Ayu? The fact that using english for song titles was/is very "fashionable" does not nessicarily mean that the artist has any knowledge of that language. Ayu said herself that she uses a translator (as she does when she has english lines in her music), and that sometimes the translations are not completely correct (e.g. evolution should have been era, which makes more sense with the lyrics).

It's more liable that it was harder to describe her feelings into a language she didn't even know let alone put them into words. After all, her whole first album was about herself.

Originally Posted by evolusean

Another strange account is how Ayu's mother, she has said, always wanted Ayu to call her the American-English "Mommy", as opposed to a Japanese name for a mother.

This is a very common case through Asian/non-english speaking families. My friends for example. However, the fact her mum wanted to is a good point.

She doen't look mix (mix usually has this brownish smooth coloured skin), but I've seen mixed who look completely Asian except for their caucasion features so theres a counter example I can't use

In short: I highly doubt it but I think you're awesome to point all these things out Never occured to me.

Originally Posted by alternarist

haha. i doubt her father is an american. her surname is hamasaki! and whats her previous name? i heard its kurumi _____? lol. but the points raised are rather logical. hmm.

Originally Posted by Jer Sieu

check wikipedia... it IS kurumi hamasaki... then to ayumi hamasaki... so IF her dad is american, it wouldn't be hamasaki... So the only possible way she is half american/japanese is her mom is american or it wasn't hamasaki...

Hamasaki Kurumi was her stage name for when she acted in Dramas. Her given name was always Ayumi (as seen through interviews regarding her past) however was originally written in Kanji. It even says on her "acting card" where she is named Hamasaki Kurumi that her real name as Ayumi. Sorry, but I can't find the image right now, but many people have seen it.