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Utada Hikaru Biography
Utada Hikaru is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on January 19, 1983 in Manhattan, New York, United States. Utada Hikaru (宇多田 ヒカル , born January 19, 1983) , who is also known as Hikaru Utada and the mononym Utada (English: /uː ˈ t ɑː d ə / , Japanese: [ɯtada] ), is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter and producer. Born in the United States to Japanese parents, record producer Utada Teruzane and enka singer Keiko Fuji, Utada began to write music and lyrics at an early age and often traveled to Tokyo as a result of her father’s job. Eventually, a recording contract with Toshiba-EMI was signed and, under the stage name Cubic U, Utada released her English-language debut album Precious in early 1998, but it was a commercial failure. In the following year, heavily influenced by R&B and dance-pop, her Japanese-language debut First Love was released and became an instant success. Backed by the massive 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 the country’s best-selling album of all time.
Her song “Prisoner of Love” was used as the theme-song for the television drama Last Friends. Although “Prisoner of Love” was not initially released as a single alone, it reached number 1 in iTunes and the Chako-Uta charts after it was released as a single for the drama. It reached number 2 at the Oricon Weekly charts. It won Best Theme Song at the 57th Drama Academy Awards and sold 2.9 million downloads. It marked the fourth successful Utada drama tie-in (following 1999’s Majo no Jōken and First Love, 2001’s Hero and Can You Keep a Secret and 2007’s Hana Yori Dango and Flavor of Life).
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. Utada’s commercial success has made her one of Japan’s top-selling recording artists of all time with over 37 million records sold since launching her career in the late 1990s. Twelve of her singles have reached number-one on the Oricon Singles Chart, while ten of her albums have become chart-toppers. Six of her full-length releases are among the country’s highest-selling albums of all time, including First Love, Distance and Deep River, which are among the top ten best-selling records of Japan’s music history. Additionally, Utada 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 2001, Utada recorded the song “Blow My Whistle” for the action-comedy film Rush Hour 2. It was a collaboration with American rapper Foxy Brown, and was written by Utada alongside Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. The song is included on Def Jam’s Rush Hour 2 soundtrack, which peaked the 11th spot on both the Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Top Soundtracks. Although Utada usually produces her own songs, Blow My Whistle was produced by The Neptunes.
Utada moved to Tokyo in the summer of 1998 and attended Seisen International School, and later the American School in Japan, while continuing to record on a new contract with Toshiba-EMI. Her movement originally came from Japanese FM radio. She opted for becoming a singer-songwriter instead of attempting to become an idol. Leading up to the release of her Japanese debut album First Love, at the age of 16, Utada released two successful million-selling singles: “Automatic/Time Will Tell” and “Movin’ On Without You”. “Automatic/Time Will Tell” sold over two million copies. Backed by her singles, her debut album First Love went on to sell over 7 million units in Japan alone (with an additional 3 million overseas, bringing it to a sum of at least 10 million units), becoming the highest selling album in Japan’s recent history. The album yielded the single “First Love”, which peaked at the #2 spot. By the end of the year, Utada was rank number 5 on a Japanese radio station Tokio Hot 100 Airplay’s Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century by the station and its listeners.
| Name | Utada Hikaru |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Birthday | January 19 |
| Birth Year | 1983 |
| Place of Birth | Manhattan |
| Home Town | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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On September 7, 2002, Utada married Kazuaki Kiriya, a photographer and film director who had directed several of her music videos. He was fifteen years her senior. On March 2, 2007, the couple announced their divorce, citing personal changes and lack of communication due to the nature of their jobs.
Utada Hikaru Net Worth
Utada Hikaru is one of the richest Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Utada Hikaru's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Utada was born in New York City as the only child of Teruzane, a Japanese record producer, and his wife Junko, an enka singer, performing under the stage name Keiko Fuji. At the age of 10, Utada began to write music and lyrics. She did her recordings with her mother, releasing songs under a band named “U3” (also known as Utada 3) until 1996 when she started her first solo project, “I’ll be Stronger”, The “Cookin’ with Moses Vocal” from this project was called the “Cookin’ with Gas Vocal” on the promotional release.
“I’ll Be Stronger” was released under the artist name Cubic U, a mathematical reference to her being the third Utada “power”, and was her pseudonym before becoming a superstar in Japan; the song was not released in the United States. In 1997, she started her next project, though at first she was hesitant. Cubic U released her debut single “Close to You”, which was a cover of The Carpenters’ song. She then released her debut album Precious the following year. Both the album and single failed to chart on the Oricon charts.
After a two-year break, Utada released her follow-up album Distance, garnering a first-week sales of 3 million units sold. Backed by her singles – “Addicted to You”, “Wait & See (Risk)”, “For You” / “Time Limit” and “Can You Keep a Secret?” – Distance became the best-selling album of the year, with 4.469 million copies sold in Japan alone. Additionally, “Addicted to You” became Utada’s best-selling single, selling one-million in its first week which became the highest first week sales for a female solo artist and staying on top of the chart for two consecutive weeks. “Wait & See: Risk” and “Can You Keep a Secret?” also were later ranked at #6 and #10 respectively on Oricon’s list of 10 Best-Selling Singles from January 1, 1999 to April 24, 2006. Utada also went on to release a single which was dedicated to the female victim of a murder case in Ikeda, Osaka, titled “Final Distance”.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Singer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 2003, Utada’s promotional and personal life schedules became more active due to her marriage and an imposing agreement with Island Records in the United States to release a “proper” full-English debut album. Though she released “Colors”, it was her only single release for 2003. The song featured experimental tones for the first time in Utada’s discography. It became her longest charting single ever with a 45-week trajectory on the Oricon Singles chart, selling 881,000 copies, and was #3 on the Yearly Singles chart.
In mid-2004, Utada moved back to New York, and began work on a new recording contract with Island Def Jam Music Group. On October 5, 2004, she released her North American English-language debut album, Exodus, under the name “Utada”, which was her new American-given artist title at the Universal Convention. It was released on September 9 in Japan, with a special booklet and housed in a cardboard slipcase. In an MTV interview, Utada expressed skepticism about her American success: “I don’t think it’s the music that I’m concerned about. It’s obviously that I look really different and there really aren’t any completely Asian people [who are popular singers in the U.S.] right now.” She also remarked that it was the album she’d always wanted to make, and one that wasn’t pandering to her usual fans. Exodus became Utada’s fourth consecutive release to debut at #1 and boast 500,000 copies in its first-week sales in Japan. American sales were not as successful, it reached #160 in the US Billboard 200 chart; it however peaked at #5 in the Heatseekers chart. “Easy Breezy” was released as the lead single in early August 2004, followed up by “Devil Inside” a month and two weeks later. Utada then became the cover of the Interview magazine June 2005 issue.
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| Body Measurements | Under Review |
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Her following album Distance was released in early 2001 and spawned Utada’s biggest hit singles—”Addicted to You”, “Wait & See (Risk)” and “Can You Keep a Secret?”—which became million-sellers. The album was commercially successful and broke several sales records after three million copies were sold in its first week of availability in Japan, instantly becoming the country’s fastest-selling album. In 2002, backed by chart-topping singles such as “Traveling”, “Hikari” and “Sakura Drops”, Deep River, which incorporates elements of pop folk, was released and went on to become one of Japan’s top-selling records of all-time. Subsequent full-length releases—Exodus, Ultra Blue and Heart Station—achieved million-selling status certified by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. After a prolonged hiatus, Utada released acoustic-driven Fantôme and Hatsukoi, which reached number-one on the Oricon album charts.
The fourth single from Exodus, “You Make Me Want to Be a Man”, was released in October 2005 in the UK. “Devil Inside” became a club hit in the U.S. and topped the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Airplay charts. Both the Exodus album and the “You Make Me Want to Be a Man” single were released in the UK, with different artwork from the USA and Japanese versions.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Utada Hikaru. You may help us to build the dating records for Utada Hikaru!Her first singles compilation album Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 1 was released on March 31, 2004. It became the best-selling album of 2004 in Japan, making her the only solo or group artist to reach #1 four times on the yearly charts. It was the first compilation album to reach #1 in six years on the yearly charts, and the first compilation album to reach #1 in twenty-six years by a female artist. Despite its success, the album received little promotion and no new material; moreover, it charted longer on the Oricon Albums chart longer than any other Utada release to date (over two years). The album sold over 2.575 million units in Japan, making it the 34th best-selling album ever in the country. A month later, on April 21, she released her only Japanese single in 2004, “Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro”, which topped the singles chart for two consecutive weeks and sold 365,000 units by the year’s end and was also the main theme song for Casshern, directed by her then husband Kazuaki Kiriya.
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Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Utada Hikaru celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.
“Exodus ’04” was released at the end of June 2005 and featured remixes from The Scumfrog, Richard Vission, JJ Flores and Peter Bailey. In the UK, Mercury added another two remixes for “You Make Me Want to Be a Man” in the original album, titled “You Make Me Want to Be a Man (Bloodshy & Avant Mix)” and “You Make Me Want to Be a Man (Junior Jack Mix)”. By the end of the year, Utada was voted “Number 1 Favorite Artist of 2004” by Oricon’s annual readers poll.
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