Ayu on polish TV (TV4)

[Aga-chan]

It's not like HamaZaki is TOTALLY wrong to begin with. I mean people quite often pronounce foreign names wrong. There're like hundreds of cases. I have heard weird variations of Polish names - and I also mean those easy ones. So I don't really understand that "Oh no, they said HamaZaki" talk.

[AyUta]

Originally Posted by Aga-chan

It's not like HamaZaki is TOTALLY wrong to begin with. I mean people quite often pronounce foreign names wrong. There're like hundreds of cases. I have heard weird variations of Polish names - and I also mean those easy ones. So I don't really understand that "Oh no, they said HamaZaki" talk.

Exactly. Plus that was her real spelling of the name in the past, I think for her film appearances. She was known as "Hamazaki", but then she changed it to "Hamasaki" because she liked it better(Start of her singing career).

I wish they would put her on TV in the states! The states suck

Originally Posted by AyUta

Exactly. Plus that was her real spelling of the name in the past, I think for her film appearances. She was known as "Hamazaki", but then she changed it to "Hamasaki" because she liked it better(Start of her singing career).

No, her last name has always been pronounced "Hamasaki"