Years active: 1998 - present (started around 15 years old; 26 years in the business)
Instagram follower count: 1.1m (as of November 2024)
About Hikaru Utada
Hikaru Utada, also known by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese-American pop singer, songwriter and producer.
Utada is of the most influential and best-selling musical artists in Japan.
Utada was born in the United States to Japanese parents, the record producer Teruzane Utada and the enka singer Keiko Fuji.
She began to write music and lyrics at an early age and often traveled to Tokyo as a result of her[a] father's job.
After signing to Toshiba-EMI, she released her debut English-language debut album Precious as Cubic U in 1998, but it was a commercial failure.
In the following year, heavily influenced by R&B and dance-pop, Utada released her Japanese-language debut, First Love, which was an immediate success.
Backed by the 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 Japan's best-selling album of all time.
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