Hikaru Utada Profile
Name: Hikaru Utada
Birth name: Iwashita Hikaru
DOB: January 19th, 1983
Place of birth: New York, USA
Height: 158cm
Blood type: A
Husband: Kazuaki Kiriya
Language spoken: English and Japanese
Profession: Singer and songwriter
(Also credited as Utada Hikaru, Hikki, Cubic U)
Dreams: Become a writer, open a small bookshop and become a clerk there, work part-time at a cafe
Hobbies: Literature, spicy stuffs, photography and web-surfing
Specialties: Touch typing, Tetris, biting the bullet, reading minds, moving just the smallest toe of my left foot, full leg splits and other instances of flexibility
Favourite places: Mexico, Machu Picchu and the Sahara Desert
Favourite artists: Nine Inch Nails, Mozart, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Bartok, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Edith Piaf, Cocteau Twins, Jeff Buckley, Chick Corea, The Blue Nile, Freddie Mercury, Bjork, Yutaka Ozaki, and Hibari Misora
Favourite movies: Amadeus, Crash, Munich, Brazil, Tasogare Seibei, Lost Highway, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather Part II, The Jerk, Orlando, and works by Hayao Miyazaki
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Hikaru Utada Biography
Utada’s growing environment allowed her to produce her first album at the age of 12. Her first album, Precious, was released under pseudonym Cubic U.
Precious was not a success in USA, but was later heard by a Japanese recording company; and Utada was invited to write her songs in Japanese instead.
Hikaru Utada accepted the challenge and released her first Japanese single, Automatic in 1999. Her Japanese debut was a great hit, and Utada became the teenage sensation that’s been the talking point of Japan music industry.
Hikaru Utada then released her first album First Love, which sold over 8,000,000 copies in Japan, making it the all time best selling album in Japan, and still holds the record currently.
Hikaru Utada enrolled into Columbia University, USA in 2000 but didn’t graduate in the end because of her busy music career and some health problems.
Hikki went on to release her 2nd and 3rd album, Distance and Deep River.
Hikaru Utada then surprised her fans with her marriage to Kazuaki Kiriya in 2002, a photographer she worked with numerous times.
Hikaru Utada released an English album, Exodus in 2004, which only received decent success.
Hikaru Utada released her 4th Japanese album, Ultra Blue in 2006.
