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Namie Amuro was born on September 20, 1977, at Okinawa Red Cross Hospital in Naha, Okinawa. She is one of four children of Emiko Taira. Through her mother, Amuro is a quarter Italian.
- Mixed-race heritage. At first glance, Amuro, while beautiful, does not fit into the typical Japanese ideal defined by fair, porcelain-like skin. The pop queen has a sun-kissed, tanned skin tone, and that is in part because she is a quarter Italian on her mother's side.
- Raised by a single mother. Amuro was raised mostly by her mother Emiko Taira alone. Her parents divorced when Amuro was four and her father has reportedly been absent in her life since.
- Tragic family history. In 1999, about a year after the birth of Amuro's son, she had to confront an unprecedented tragedy. In an ugly family feud which shocked the nation, her mother was brutally attacked and killed at age 48 by Kenji Taira - the younger brother of her second husband.
- Shift in J-pop. When Amuro broke onto the scene as a Japanese teen queen in the mid-1990s with her dyed hair, tanned skin, thigh-high boots and mini-skirts, she represented a shift in Japanese pop culture.
Sep 29, 2021 · Namie Amuro (安室奈美恵) — Can You Celebrate (1997) TK Family Pan-Pacific Tour. credits: https://twitter.com/amuroarchive on twitter.due to the removal of namie amuro's catalog from digital...
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- TLC Re-Recorded “Waterfalls” with Amuro in 2013
- She Got Her Start in A Girl Group
- Her Sales Are Killer
- A Diverse Range of Producers Have Worked on Several of Her English Tracks
- Her Songs Have Often Been Used on Numerous Soundtracks For Movies and TV Shows
Just over 10 years after the death of TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the surviving members of the popular R&B group, T-Boz and Chilli, issued a new versionof their 1995 smash "Waterfalls," with rap verses from Amuro replacing Lopes'. The new version, released in celebration of TLC's 20th anniversary, also generated controversy, specifically prompting...
Before same-gendered groups like the Spice Girls, *NSYNC, and Backstreet Boys ruled the charts overseas in the '90s, Amuro got her start in the all-female dance collective Super Monkey's. The band didn't produce much in the way of hits, but it did position 14-year-old Amuro for individual success, as many of the group's singles — and a slew of remi...
She's sold more albums in Japan than American pop icons like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Kesha have shifted in the U.S. combined. The nation's equivalent to Madonna, Amuro is one of the best-selling artists of all time in her native region, with each of her 12 original, full-length LPs earning platinum certification (or higher) in Japan, with 1996's...
Amuro has blurred international lines throughout her two-plus decades making music and is often credited with popularizing mixing foreign sounds with traditional Japanese pop. Her second album, Sweet 19 Blues, released in 1996, features multiple English-language tracks, its compositions bearing sonic similarity to studio sets from the likes of Mado...
Japanese pop stars typically contribute music to television dramas and movies, and Amuro is no exception. Her songs have appeared in movies adapted from major properties like Pokémon ("Toi et moi" appears in the end credits for Pokémon: The Movie 2000), Death Note ("Dear Diary" and "Fighter" were used to promote the series' 2016 horror film subtitl...
She began her rise to fame as a 14-year-old from Okinawa. Prominent producer Tetsuya Komuro later helped seal her stardom. With his help, she sold millions of CDs, setting records. At the height of...
Family Life. Raised in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, by single mother Emiko Taira, Amuro went on to become a single mother herself after divorcing her son Haruto's father. Associated With. At her career's height, she was regarded as the Japanese equivalent of Madonna.
Namie had a much more humble upbringing in Okinawa, where she was brought up by a single mother who did her best to make ends meet. It’s been said that SAM’s family looked down on Namie, despite making such a big name for herself in the entertainment world. SAM’s family never approved of the marriage, or even the relationship.
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