I studied at Horizonta High School in Tokyo when I was in middle school. The company is Avex Entertainment Company in Japan. As one of the most famous Japanese singers in recent years, her influence has spread all over East Asia and has a certain influence in other parts of the world. Her records have also set sales records in Japan, and many classic songs are also popular.
Ayumi Hamasaki, the "new leader" believed by Japanese high school girls,1April 8, 998, entered the Japanese music scene with a poker face. In the same year, Ayumi Hamasaki released five single records in succession, among which the third single "Trust" won the 1998 Japanese Cable TV Award for Newcomer and Osaka Cable TV Award. 1 June 65438+1October1At the beginning of the new year, Ayumi Hamasaki's first solo album "A Song for XXX" was released. The lyrics of the whole album are written by Ayumi Hamasaki herself, and her own lyrics are like a mirror, showing her thoughts and contradictions about life, work and self without reservation. It is precisely because of the expression of real lyrics that it sang the voice of peers. This album ranked first in the album chart for five weeks in a row, which is also a good result set by the new female singer 19. 1999, Ayumi Hamasaki released 7 singles and 2 albums. In the same year, the "Red and White Song Club" debuted. At the same time, she also won many awards during the year.
In 2000, she released 9 singles and 2 albums, and held 33 national tours in Japan. In addition, during this year, she also won four awards in the Japanese Record Awards: Excellent Works Award, Best Album Award, Best Album Award and Lyrics Award.
In 200 1 year, Ayumi Hamasaki held a tour of four major Japanese cities (Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo), and the total number of people who came to watch the concert exceeded 300,000. In 2002, she participated in the first "MTV Asia Awards 2000" held in Singapore and won the honor of "the most influential Japanese artist in Asia".
So far, Ayumi Hamasaki has released 28 singles and 4 albums. Not long ago, she performed her third concert tour at 1 1. Ayumi Hamasaki is not only a singer, but also a fashion representative of Japanese youth. The clothes she wears will become the object of imitation by young people overnight. Ayumi Hamasaki has played many roles in the Japanese metropolis, but what remains unchanged is her love for fans. Let's listen to her songs and witness the beauty of this Japanese queen who has created various miracles on September 22nd!
Honor information 200 1 "All Japan Song on Demand Award" won the championship for two consecutive years.
Won the 33rd Japan Cable TV Award "Japan Cable TV Award"
Won the 34th Japan Record Sales Award and the "Artist Sales Award" for two consecutive years.
Won the "Japan Record Award" of the 43rd Japan Record.
In 2002, he won the special award of "The Most Influential Japanese Artist in Asia" in MTV Asia Award.
Won the 16 Japan Gold Record Award "Artist of the Year" award for two consecutive years.
Basic information nickname: Ayu
Birthday: 1978 10.02.
Blood type: type a.
Place of birth: Fukuoka Prefecture
Women find the most attractive people: Keiko (Universal), Rie Miyazawa, Seiko Matsuda.
About Music: Influenced by my eldest brother, I have listened to rock music since I was a child (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple).
Recently, I like listening to black music such as Baby Face and EnVogue.
Favorite actors: Nicolas Cage, Rie Miyazawa.
Favorite movies: Bodyguard, Betty Lan, Leaving Las Vegas.
Respected person: A person who has what he doesn't have.
Hate people: liars, people who don't say hello.
Passion: collecting white ornaments in the room.
Favorite food: biscuits (can be used as staple food), cakes, chocolates, pickles, raw liver.
Favorite books: I often buy fashion magazines, and the translated versions of ancient poems are also quite interesting, as well as the works of Yin Xiasheng and so on.
Expertise: piano, calligraphy five paragraphs, abacus calculation, flower shape.
Symbols In some records and works released in Ayumi Hamasaki, there are often several special symbols (see the right), which are similar to English letters A, H and M. Their careers in Ayumi Hamasaki have different symbolic meanings. The first "A" symbol appears in the single "A" of 10, as the cover, replacing all the letters "A". This single later brought Ayumi Hamasaki to the first peak of her singing career. (A sold 6.5438+0.63 million), and according to Ayumi Hamasaki herself, this symbol also represents her name. The second "A" was improved from the first "A" and first appeared on the back cover of the second album "LOVEppears". The two major albums "A BEST (A)" and "A BALLADS (A)" also adopted this symbol, which has been used to this day. In addition to her album name, there are various products launched under her name. These albums named after this are all popular works of the year. The third "A" appeared on the sixth album: My Story. The fourth "A" sold 1 1 300,000 copies, which was also her last million-dollar album. The symbol "A" appeared in the seventh album: "(Miss) understood ((Step) understood)", and it also sold more than 870,000 copies. "M" is the title of 19 single, which is the fourth single with a sales volume of over one million in Ayumi Hamasaki. Unlike the symbol "A", this symbol applies to any record with the song "M". "H" appears in the symbol "H" of the 27th single. This single is also the last million-dollar single.
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The popular style is similar to Doraemon in Japanese manga and Japanese drama Under One Roof. Ayumi Hamasaki is also considered as one of the symbols of contemporary Japanese pop music. Ayumi Hamasaki is also considered as one of the symbols of Japanese pop culture which is popular in Asia. She is regarded as a fashion representative of the younger generation in Japan (especially women aged 10-30), leading the fashion trend in Japan and even in Asia, and playing a mainstay role in Japan's rapidly changing pop culture. In Asia, Ayumi Hamasaki, a household name, has been given many famous titles, including "Japanese pop leader", "Japanese queen", "queen of variety", "Asian queen" and "stepsister", among which "Japanese pop leader" and "stepsister" are the most common. Some critics also pointed out that Ayumi Hamasaki had the deepest definition of the way that Japanese pop music promoted and managed female singers and so-called idol singers.
Her covers in famous Japanese fashion magazines such as ViVi, SCAWAII, CAWAII and Popteen always appear frequently and regularly, which makes her a weather vane of fashion clothes. She has also appeared in the international fashion magazine Vogue, famous brands Bulgari and Dolce &；; As a model, D & ampampg also speaks for another famous brand, christian dior's jewelry. She also won many awards in beauty and costume elections in Japan, and was selected as the most popular female singer in a survey conducted by Oricon in 2006. In terms of clothing accessories, she is famous for her frequent use of famous brands, such as Louis Vuitton, alexander mcqueen, Chanel and so on. Incidentally, Ayumi Hamasaki, who likes Shibuya 109 and is influenced by it, put forward the design scheme behind the scenes. The first brand is "Material Girl". On the 6th floor of Shibuya109! However, this brand was not designed by Ayumi Hamasaki herself (she put forward the design scheme). Now, it has been outsourced to other girls to plan and design this brand of clothing.
Ten Tides 1, Leopard Tide swept across Asia. In September 2000, Ayumi Hamasaki released its third album Duty. She has become a leopard girl with a jungle flavor, full of charm and attraction like a little devil, and naturally exudes a unique and gorgeous atmosphere that is bad to the bone. The idea of this leopard girl was completely arranged by Ayumi Hamasaki. She perfectly matched the unique wildness and mysterious temperament of leopard print with fiery lips and pointed nails studded with rhinestones. Under her interpretation, leopard print gave up frivolity and showed a noble and fashionable side. Leopard print triggered the leopard print craze in Japanese fashion at the end of 2000. From underwear to mobile phones, products of all sizes are competing to be labeled with leopard print. The leopard-print mobile phone made by Tu-ka and designed by Ayumi Hamasaki sold for 400,000 yen. In Shibuya, the most prosperous city in Japan, huge advertisements of "Leopard Girl" in Ayumi Hamasaki can be seen everywhere, and even the line card company invited Ayumi Hamasaki to design a line card with limited printing. From celebrities to ordinary people, to home accessories and even car interiors, leopard prints occupy the mainstream position, and this trend has spread from Japan to Asia. On New Year's Day in 2008, Ayumi Hamasaki released a new album "Guilty", and once again appeared in a leopard-print dress, reappearing its image imprint, which was a tribute to himself. 2. Fox Tail 200 1 February, the leopard print fever has not faded, and Ayumi Hamasaki has contributed another popular item to Japan. In the MV of the single Evolution, a furry fox's tail suddenly hangs obliquely at the waist of Ayumi Hamasaki jeans as a decoration, which quickly became a popular ornament at the beginning of 200 1. This accessory, we later saw countless changes in various tails around her waist. 3. Since the blonde Barbie debuted, Ayumi Hamasaki bid farewell to her black hair and dyed it golden. In March, 20001,Ayumi Hamasaki showed a dazzling blonde Barbie in the album "A BEST". Whether in Fly or surrealism, her long blonde hair and thick bangs present Ayumi Hamasaki's innocent and beautiful baby face, and this iconic blonde hair is the key to her transformation into a doll, which excites Barbie manufacturers. In 200 1 year, Ayumi Hamasaki was awarded "Barbie Award 200 1". The golden curly hair with thick bangs is still a model for artists to imitate today. 4, big eye makeup In the most prosperous moment in Ayumi Hamasaki, when you walk to the streets of Shibuya, there will be a pair of big eyes from Ayumi Hamasaki staring at you. In addition to Ayumi Hamasaki's natural eyes, her original big-eye painting also attracted the whole of Asia. At that time, everyone wanted to have a pair of big eyes in Ayumi Hamasaki style, which was the best endorsement for girls who longed to be princesses. Nowadays, Ayumi Hamasaki's eye makeup and smoky makeup go hand in hand, which has become a necessary teaching in makeup class. In addition, the popularity of cosmetic contact lenses began with Ayumi Hamasaki's big eyes. 5. Flower headdress In 2004, Ayumi Hamasaki tried a summer single "Inspire" full of Thai flavor. On the envelope, she wore a red rose headdress and a long skirt of the same color, which was sexy and charming. In fact, this flower headdress has always been a popular necessity in Ayumi Hamasaki. Flowers, once a symbol of love and peace in the 1960s, are used to decorate the body, but they are full of hippie style and quite unique and fashionable. Ayumi Hamasaki creates different atmosphere with different colors of flowers, which adds points to popularity. Or bright, or charming and lovely, or relaxed and bright, or sexy and confused. 6. improved kimono released the mixed album ayu-mi-x 4 series in 2002. Ayumi Hamasaki wore an improved kimono for the first time, dressed in a strong wind, which firmly attracted people's attention for the first time. During this period, she once appeared on the cover of Time magazine, also wearing an improved kimono. In addition, she attended the MTV Awards Ceremony held in Singapore in an improved kimono, the sleeves of which were embroidered with the English words "Forever and Hope". This dress was designed by Ayumi Hamasaki himself. Kimono smells sexy in Ayumi Hamasaki. Since then, on the red carpet of Hong Kong and Taiwan, artists have a new choice. Even in the design of Lanvin06 in spring and summer of 2006, the characteristics of improved kimono have been incorporated. 7. Face stickers are different from those artists who often express the sense of fashion punk through tattoos. Ayumi Hamasaki likes to use stickers of different colors or models to enhance his style. Red hearts and colorful butterflies ... she let the girls know that it is not only makeup that can change their faces. 8. Japanese beggar jeans, the male idol is Kimura Takuya and the female idol is Ayumi Hamasaki. Let's push the trend of beggar jeans to the extreme. From April to June, 2000, Ayumi Hamasaki released three singles "Vogue", "Distant" and "Season" for three consecutive months. At that time, Ayumi Hamasaki, who was already the fashion leader of Japanese young people, triggered another wave of craze through these three well-made items-beggar jeans. Ayumi Hamasaki, who often remoulds jeans by herself, emphasizes that using a little tattered effect can often set off a unique personality. Therefore, she won the "Best Jeans Celebrity Award" in Japan for five consecutive times and became the first female artist to enter the "Best Jeans Spokesperson forever". 9. Pursuing the perfection of gorgeous fluffy skirt is Ayumi Hamasaki's fashion magic weapon. In the magazine "* * *" commemorating her debut for ten years, she once again put on an exaggerated and gorgeous dress inlaid with crystal diamonds. This is the most common style of Ayumi Hamasaki on the stage. However, this is not a very easy shape to control. Whether it's Juliet's palace skirt in the middle ages, a fluffy skirt with diamonds in the fairy tale world, or a green chiffon dress on the stage, Ayumi Hamasaki skillfully emphasized the high waist design and lengthened the whole figure proportion. 65438+ Whether it is a candy-colored manicure full of summer breath, a finger color inlaid with rhinestones, or a crystal manicure, every time she changes a color and fancy, she attracts admirers to follow. More and more people know that manicure is like a woman's second face. Only changes in details can attract people's attention and create topics.
She has neither a tall figure nor a hot figure, but it is this exquisite woman who has set off a fashion wave in Japan and even the whole of Asia. Her straight bangs, big black eyes and sexy and lovely shape make her an out-and-out "pop leader". Although she has a top modeling team to serve her, she still likes to dress and decorate at will. She hardly watches fashion magazines and TV programs now, and her fashion declaration is "fashion is up to me". On average, she changes three sets of clothes every day. If there are performances and announcements, there will be more. She will choose different types of clothes according to her mood, weather and occasion. For example, in performance, she will choose some exaggerated costumes that she can't wear on weekdays, so that she can show them on the stage. At press conferences or publicity occasions, she often doesn't wear too much makeup, and she doesn't have a strange look. Instead, it is pure and simple, just like when she participated in the concert promotion in Taiwan Province Province a few days ago, she appeared in a white dress and was as pure as a princess; When she is in a bad mood or cloudy, she will choose brightly colored clothes. She said it would bring good mood to herself and her friends and make life more colorful. She likes shopping. Shopping is the best way for her to relax. As long as she has time, she will go shopping abroad, because if she appears in Japan, not to mention shopping, even walking will be a problem and she will be surrounded by fans, so she prefers to buy clothes in relatively free Europe and other places. The most exaggerated time, she bought more than 70 pairs of shoes in a few days' holiday, mostly high heels. On another occasion, she even asked someone to drive a truck to load the clothes she bought. "I admit that I am a shopaholic, and I like to buy it at once, but I am not just obsessed with famous brands. Compared with those expensive world brands, I prefer to design something unique and have my own personality. " Every time she drives through a fashionable street in Japan, she pays great attention to the clothes of young men and women on the roadside. She will be very proud when she sees many girls imitating their own dressing styles, because this is the best affirmation and praise for herself. At the same time, she will often tell those girls who are chasing fashion, "Be sure to choose the one that suits you. Blind worship is just the most basic fashion. Finding what really suits you and having your own design and breakthrough is the real fashion. "