Hikaru Utada

Utada Hikaru is an extremely popular Jpop star.

Hikaru Utada was born in New York city on January 19, 1983.

Both of Hikaru's parents where in the music industry. Hikaru's dad is Teruzane Utada who is a music producer (he also produced his daughters albums) and her mother was enka singer Keiko Fuji.

Hikaru Utada started her music career in 96, in the US under the stage name Cubic U.



She didn't make much of splash state side but the record was released in Japan in 98 and again a year later.

in 1999 Utada Hikaru released First Love.

that album sold 5 million copies in it's first month and made Utada Hikaru one of the richest people in Japan.



In 2001 Utada released 3rd album Distance. This year she also attended Columbia University but shortly dropped out to pursue music



In 2002 she released Deep River and although she couldn't go on TV to promote herself due to surgery to get rid of an ovarian tumor. She still sold 2.35 million albums in her first week.



In 2004 Hikaru Utada tried to once again crack the American market with an all English album titled Exodus.

This album received very little promotion from it's label Def Jam and was a flop in America. But was a hit in Japan (even though it was in English)



in 2005 Hikaru Utada released the album Ultra Blue.

her single Passion is the theme to the Disney/final fantasy video game Kingdom Hearts 2



in may 2006 Utada Hikaru released the single This Is Love on iTunes