Hikaru Utada
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Born | Hikaru Utada (宇多田 光)[1] January 19, 1983 New York City, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Columbia University |
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Hikaru Utada (宇多田 ヒカル, Utada Hikaru, born January 19, 1983), also known by the mononym Utada,[2] is a Japanese singer, songwriter and producer. Utada is one of the most influential and best-selling musical artists in Japan.
Utada was born in the United States to Japanese parents, record producer Teruzane Utada and enka singer Keiko Fuji. She began to write music and lyrics at an early age and often traveled to Tokyo as a result of her[a] father's job. After signing to Toshiba-EMI, she released her debut English-language debut album Precious as Cubic U in 1998, which was a commercial failure. In the following year, heavily influenced by R&B and dance-pop, Utada released her Japanese-language debut, First Love, which was an immediate success. Backed by the success of singles "Automatic", "Time Will Tell", and "Movin' On Without You", the album sold two million copies in its first week in Japan, topped the Oricon charts for six non-consecutive weeks and went on to sell six million more throughout the rest of 1999. First Love eventually became Japan's best-selling album of all time.
Utada's album
By the end of the 2000s, Utada was deemed "the most influential artist of the decade" in the Japanese music landscape by The Japan Times. She is one of Japan's top-selling recording artists of all time with over 40 million records sold.[4] Twelve of her singles have reached number one on the Oricon Singles Chart, while ten albums have become chart-toppers. Six of her full-length releases are among Japan's highest-selling albums, including First Love, Distance and Deep River, which are among the top ten best-selling records of Japan's music history. She is best known by international audiences for writing and producing four theme-song contributions to Square Enix and Disney's collaborative video game series Kingdom Hearts: "Simple and Clean", "Sanctuary", "Don't Think Twice", and "Face My Fears". In 2021, Utada became one of the first Japanese figures to identify as non-binary.[5]
Life and career
Early life and beginnings
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Hikaru Utada was born in New York City as the only child of Teruzane Utada, a Japanese record producer, and his wife Junko, an enka singer performing under the stage name Keiko Fuji.[6][7] At the age of 10, Utada began to write music and lyrics.[8][issue needed] She made recordings with Keiko, releasing songs under a band named "U3" until 1996, when she started a solo project as Cubic U.
The first Cubic U single, "I'll Be Stronger", was released as a limited pressing in Japan in 1996. The next year, Utada started another project, releasing "Close to You", a cover of the Carpenters' song. She included it on her debut album Precious the following year. Both the album and single failed to chart on Oricon in Japan.
1998–2003: Japanese debut, First Love, Distance, and Deep River
Utada moved to Tokyo in the summer of 1998 and attended
After a two-year break, Utada released the follow-up album
In 2001, Utada recorded the song "
Leading up to the third album,
2004–2005: Foray into international market, and Exodus
Utada's first singles
In mid-2004, Utada moved back to New York, and began work on a recording contract with
"
2005–2008: Return to Japan, Ultra Blue, and Heart Station
A year after the release of Exodus, Utada moved back to Tokyo and returned to the Japanese music scene.
The
On June 30, 2007, the British
Utada's fifth studio album,
2009–2010: Return to the US, and This Is the One
On December 16, 2008, information leaked onto the internet that Utada's next English-language single, titled "
On November 30, 2009, at
2010–2015: Second return to Japan, Single Collection Vol. 2, Wild Life, and hiatus
In a personal blog post on August 9, 2010, Utada announced a long hiatus, writing "I don't know if it will be 2 years or 5 years." After having been focused on music from age 15 to 27, she expressed a need to have a broader range of experiences, and grow as a person.
On September 27, 2010, Utada revealed a single, entitled "
Utada later announced a single, "
Japanese TV station
On November 16, 2012, Utada's
2015–2016: Parenthood and Fantôme
On July 3, 2015, Utada revealed the birth of a son on her blog, and mentioned work on an album primarily written during pregnancy. She asked for patience leading up to the release during the transition into parenthood.
On August 8, 2016, the album's title, track list and cover were released. The album's title was announced as Fantôme (French: 'ghost'), containing eight new songs, as well as the previous three singles, for a track listing totaling eleven tracks.[97][98] Following its release on September 28, Fantôme was commercially and critically successful. It debuted atop the Oricon Albums Chart and stayed there for four consecutive weeks, the most of any Utada studio album since First Love.[99] It was awarded Album of the Year at the Japan Record Awards[100] and received positive reviews from media outlets.[101][102][103] At the end of the year, it was ranked the third-best-selling physical record of the year by Oricon, as well as the best-selling digital album, according to Billboard Japan.[104][105]
2017–2019: Label transfer to Sony Music, Hatsukoi and tour
On February 9, 2017, it was announced that Utada would switch labels to
Utada also co-produced the singer-songwriter
On April 17, 2018, a new single by Utada, "Hatsukoi", was unveiled in the drama Hana Nochi Hare ~Hanadan Next Season~ as an image song. It was the second song she delivered to the
On September 28, it was reported that Utada would release a single titled "
On June 26, 2019, Utada's Laughter in the Dark tour film was released worldwide on Netflix, with English subtitles personally translated by the singer.
2020–2022: Bad Mode
On May 8, 2020, Utada released "
Utada sang the theme "Pink Blood" for the 2021 anime
2023–present: Science Fiction
In celebration of her 40th birthday, January 19, 2023, a live streaming event was held, called 40 Dai-Wa-Iroiro. The stream consisted of a question and answer session with fans, talk with actors
Musical style
Utada is a core component of the ever-changing
Personal life
Utada is bilingual and speaks English and Japanese fluently. On September 7, 2002, she married Kazuaki Kiriya, a photographer and film director who had directed several of her music videos. On March 2, 2007, the couple announced their divorce, citing personal changes and lack of communication due to the nature of their jobs.[150]
On August 22, 2013, Utada's mother, Keiko Fuji, died by apparent suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of a 28-floor condominium building in Shinjuku, Tokyo.[7][151]
On February 3, 2014, Utada announced plans to be wedded to an Italian man, asking for fans and the media to view their personal lives from a "respectable distance" as he was not in the entertainment industry.[152][153] On the same day, ex-husband Kazuaki Kiriya congratulated her on the new marriage.[154] On February 10, 2014, Utada and fiancé Francesco Calliano left a message on her official website explaining how they met each other while Calliano was a bartender in a London hotel, and asking for privacy. The couple were married on May 23, 2014.[155] On July 3, 2015, she gave birth to her son.[90] On April 6, 2018, it was announced that they had divorced.[156]
On June 26, 2021, Utada came out as
Discography
Japanese studio albums
- First Love (1999)
- Distance (2001)
- Deep River (2002)
- Ultra Blue (2006)
- Heart Station (2008)
- Fantôme (2016)
- Hatsukoi (2018)
- Bad Mode (2022)
English studio albums
- Precious [as Cubic U] (1998)
- Exodus (2004)
- This Is the One (2009)
Tour
Concert tours
- Bohemian Summer 2000 Tour (2000)
- Utada United 2006 Tour (2006)
- Utada: In the Flesh 2010 Tour (2010)
- Laughter in the Dark Tour (2018)
- Science Fiction Tour (2024)
One-off concerts
Awards
See also
- Capitol Records
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart
- List of best-selling music artists in Japan
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
Notes
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It's also Utada's first album since they came out as nonbinary last summer, making them one of few Japanese public figures to openly express their gender identity with that language.
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"I'm sick of being asked if I'm "Miss or Missus" or choosing between "Miss/Mrs/Ms" for everyday things😩 It makes me uncomfortable to be identified so markedly by my marital status or sex, and I don't relate to any of those prefixes. Every time, I feel like I'm forced to misrepresent myself. I long for an alternative option, one that anybody of any gender or social standing could use.
External links
- Official website
- Hikaru Utada at AllMusic
- Hikaru Utada at IMDb
- Hikaru Utada's channel on YouTube
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