Namie Amuro

Namie Amuro (安室奈美恵 amuro namy ) was born the September 20th 1977 with Naha (Okinawa, Japan).

Namy was the uncontested star of the J-Pop before a pause in 1998 and the advent of other artists (in particular Ayumi Hamasaki).

Edge you celebrate? (composed by Komuro Tetsuya) is one of the preferred songs of the Japanese and is very sung in the karaokes and at the time of marriages.

Biography

Born on September 20th, 1977 in Naha (Okinawa, Japan), Namie Amuro did not have at the beginning anything which predisposed it to become singer. His/her parents divorce whereas it is only 3 years old and his/her mother must raise it, his/her brothers and sisters and it, all alone. Their way of life is more than modest and at the time, Namie saw airline hostess later.

It is at the 10 years age that the catch is done, Namie discovers Yoshie Hayakasa, the first pupil of Okinawa Actors School to being become famous. Full with admiration for the latter, it decides to follow its steps and is registered in this same Okinawa Actors School. The every day, 2 hours of walk await it to be able to go there.

The ambition first of Namie was to become singer and she did not intend anything to make of other. The young girl realizes all the same very quickly that to sing is not sufficient and that it is necessary that she also learns how to dance.

At 12 years, Namie reveals its talent with all by gaining many televised contests and while beating inter alia Minako Ameku hitherto unequalled.

The career of Namie begins truly in 1992 when the decision is made to form a group with the most brilliant students. Super Monkey' S, it is the name of this group whose members are Namie Amuro, Minako Ameku, Nanako Takushi, Hisako Arakaki and Anna Makino.

The first individual one to leave under the label Toshiba EMI is entitled Koi happy No cute and passes almost unperceived. In order to leave anonymity, the group settles in Tokyo. At the same time, Anna Makino leaves the group for personal reasons. Girl of the director of Okinawa Actors School, it is professor today there. The members being reduced 4, the group logically takes the name of Super Monkey' S 4.

Two individual follows, Dancing junk and Aishite masukatto , in spite of publicities in which the group appears, discounted success is still not with the poster.

For the 4th individual one, Paradise train , Hisako Arakaki yields its place to Rino Nakasone. The group still changes name and becomes Namie Amuro with Super Monkey' S, the latter having always been the leader in any case.

It is at the time of the exit of the 5th individual one that the things start to change. Rino Nakasone leaves the group whereas Reina Miyauchi and Ritsuko Matsuda integrate it. Try me ~ watashi wo shinjite , taken again title eurobeat of Lolita, is a true success which will place straight in signal 10. Thanks to this title, Namie Amuro and its girlfriends obtain their ticket of entry to the great annual emission Kouhaku Utagussen.

Both individual eurobeat according to, Taiyo No season and Stop the music , mark a stage. It is at this obvious time that what awaits Namie Amuro, it is a career solo. The four other girls are officially satisfied from now on to dance with the back.

The true career solo starts in 1995. Namy is then contacted by Tetsuya Komuro which proposes to him to enter under the label Avex Trax.

Meanwhile, Minako Ameku, Nanako Takushi, Reina Miyauchi and Ritsuko Matsuda are contacted to form a new group: Musical Activates experiment, aka. MAX.

Namie Amuro, supported by Tetsuya Komuro, becomes very the new queen pop Her individual rather directed dance in turn will place charts at the head. Starting from Hunting the chance , the million sold specimens is automatically exceeded. The apogee is generated by the album Sweet 19 blues : with its 3,7 million run out copies, this one beats all the records of the time.

The rewards accumulate, Namie becomes the youngest artist to receive Japan Award and its concerts are complete at the end of half an hour. At 19 years, Namie Amuro is a true social phenomenon. Copied and adulated by thousands of fans whom one call Amuraa, one finds it everywhere. Store, television programs, publicities (Mistio, Sea Breeze, Visee, Maxell, Nissan to only quote most known), goodies energy of the charts to be collected with the panoply of schoolboy, video games ( Amuro Namie DIGITAL dance mix on Sega Saturn) and films (" That' S cunning? Shijou saidai No sakusen! " in company of Tatsuya Yamaguchi of group TOKIO).

The characteristic of Namie Amuro is to be an artist who explored and continuous to explore about all the kind musical. The year 1997 and the exit of the album Concentration 20 prove it well to us, passing from the rock'n'roll to the reggae, of the rap to pop without forgetting the ballade. Edge you celebrate? mark the age of maturity, Namie assagit, which is not to displease with the public which makes of this individual best song of the year.

September and October 1997 represent one period of shock for the media and the public. The first month, Namie gives up its splendid hair for a very short cut, it is acted in fact of " to release its esprit". The next month, she announces not only her marriage with Masaharu Maruyama (Sam of group TRF) but also which she is pregnant three months. She decides to make a one year old station-wagon and promises to return.

April 19th, 1998, Namie Amuro is confined of a little boy that it fore-mentioned Haruto.

December 31st, 1998, Namie return during the emission Kouhaku Utagussen to sing Can you celebrate? . It finds its fans the tears with the eyes and makes its come-back with individual the I cuts never seen .

Its popularity dropped but it is not what precedes for the singer. Unfortunately, come to be added events which do not show to him the bed of roses. His/her father-in-law dies at this beginning of year and on March 17th, day out of Respect the power off coils , his/her mother Emiko Taira is assassinated. Namie Amuro then thinks seriously of giving up its career but is seized again while remembering how much his/her mother could be proud of it and of what it had become.

You and me , third individual since the come-back and credits of end of one of films of Pokémon. One murmurs that Namie had very except desire for singing for Pokémon and this is why this song is not on any album.

September 1999. A new turning in the career of Namie since Something leaves 'boils the KIS , individual produced by the famous American producer Dallas Austin. It is the first time that the singer at the time of singing a true title R&B. It is true that she always adored this style and that one very remembers well that already in 1996-97, its clips were populated dancers black while she, was tested with the sounds groovy, rap or reggae. ( Don' T wanna cry , Joy , Storm , coils Me peace!! )

The year 2000 offers many opportunities to Namie Amuro. After the exit of Genius 2000 , the singer carries out its first concert on another continent, more precisely on the island of Hawaii, one of the 50 states of the United States. One also proposes to him to sing for G8 in front of the leaders of the more world great powers, it is the occasion of the exit of Never end , ballade which one does not present any more.

At the end of the year Break the rules once again by-product by Dallas Austin leaves and where influence R&B is marked even. One also notices a large improvement of the English pronunciation of the singer.

In 2001 Say the Word leaves where Namie tries to adopt a style much more international as well at the musical level as visual. One hears of all shares that she would like to launch out very soon on the US market. This individual is the occasion for Namie to take much more share with the design of the songs since it is for the first time the author of the words.

At the end of the year, Namie as well as other artists such as Boa, Kumi Koda, Ayumi Hamasaki, Keiko… integrates the Song+Nation project. Three individual and an album is carried out and the benefit will go to the victim of September 11th. In the series duets, Namie requires to sing with the rappor Verbal of the m-flo group what gives Lovin' it .

The exits of individual are done more and more spaced and in 2002 only two ballades leave: I will and Wishing one the same star . The latter is a Japanese version of a title already sung by several artists American and written by Diane Warren.

July 18th, Namie does the one of the newspapers. Since more than one year, one spoke, spoke again, re-sifted the rumor of a possible divorce. The Namie-Sam couple contradicted more once facts but in July, the divorce is indeed announced. Officially, it is a divorce by amicable agreement due to the timetable charged with Namie. Even if the guard of the child amounts on paper to Sam, Namie continuous being occupied some since the ex-husbands always live in the same apartment but on different floors.

Fine 2002-beginning 2003 is the return in strength of Namie Amuro with the ambitious project SMART CONTINUATION , a collaboration of several artists R&B/Hip hop whose Namie is the principal singer. Great names such Zeebra, Dabo, Muro, Ryosuke Imai or Michico form part of it. In SMART CONTINUATION , Namie gives an image completely different from itself. Without being completely Bad Girl, it is far from being as wise as usually.

Discography (supplements)

Individual

- Individual with Super Monkey' S:

9/16/92 Koi No Happy Cute
5/26/93 Dance hall Junk
11/5/93 Aishite masukatto
7/20/94 Paradise Train
Try 1/25/95 Me - watashi wo shinjite
4/26/95 Taiyo No Season
7/24/95 Stop the Music

- Individual in solo:

10/25/95 Body Feels Exit
12/4/95 Chase the Chance
3/13/96 Don' T Wanna Cry
6/5/96 You' Re My Sunshine
8/21/96 Sweet 19 Blues
11/27/96 has Walk in the Park
2/12/97 Can You Celebrate?
5/21/97 How to Be has Girl
11/26/97 Dreaming I was Dreaming
12/25/97 Can You Celebrate?
12/23/98 I Cuts Never Seen
3/17/99 Respect the Power off Coils
7/7/99 You and Me
9/1/99 Something About the KIS
04/01/00 Love 2000
12/07/00 Never End
04/10/00 Please Smile Again
Think 1/24/01 off Me/No More Tears
8/8/01 Say the Word
12/27/01 Lovin It (Song+Nation)
2/14/02 I Will
Wishing 9/11/02 one the Same Star
12/18/02 Good life/Just say so (SMART CONTINUATION)
2/5/03 Uh Uh… (SMART CONTINUATION)
3/5/03 Shine More
7/16/03 Could 'EM Up
10/16/03 So Crazy/Like
3/17/04 ALARM
7/22/04 All for you
10/14/04 Girl Talk/the SPEED STAR
4/6/05 Want me, want to me
11/16/05 White Light/Violet Sauce
5/17/06 Can' T sleep, can' T eat, I' m sick/Ningyo
1/24/07 Baby Don' T Cry
4/4/07 Funky Town

Albums

10/16/95 Dance Tracks Volume 1
7/22/96 Sweet 19 Blues
9/20/96 Original Tracks Volume 1 (with Super Monkey' S)
7/24/97 Concentration20
1/28/98 181920
26/01/00 GENIUS 2000
20/12/00 Station-wagon the Rules
3/13/02 COILS individual ENHANCED off collection
12/10/03 STYLE
Queen 7/13/05 Hip-Pop
6/27/07 Play

DVD - Clips, concerts,…

First anniversary - 1996 Live At Chiba Marine Stadium (9/27/2000)
Concentration 20 - Live in Tokyo Dome (9/27/2000)
181920 films (9/27/2000)
Turn GENIUS 2000 (8/18/2000)
Filmography (3/7/2001)
181920 films + filmography (3/13/2002)
Best clips (12/11/2002)
pop When hits the pix (3/26/2003)
Station-wagon the rules turn (11/19/2003)
SO CRAZY turn individual featuring BEST 2003-2004 (9/23/2004)
Filmography 2001-2005 (12/7/2005)
Space off Hip Pop (3/15/2006)
BEST turn " Live Style 2006" (2/21/2007)

Catalog of films

1993 Ichigo hakusho (いちご白書)
1994 Toki wo kakeru shōjo (時をかける少女)
1995 Station (ステイション)
1995 Watashi, Mikata desu
1996 That' S cunning! (comedy)

External bonds

Official site (in Japanese)
amurox - Site of fan (in French)
Site of a type-setter author of Namie (in French)

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