Utada hikaru tetsuya nomura biography

On January 19th, , in the city of Manhattan, New York, a star was born.

In the fullness of time, she would be known by many names. Among them, "Hikki" by her friends and fans and "(Kazuaki) Iwashita Hikaru" after her recent marriage but in the beginning, she was known simply as "Utada Hikaru".

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This is her story

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In a way, it can be said that the talent for music is written in her genes. Her parents both spent their lives involved with the music industry in some way or another.

Her father, "Teruzane Utada" was a producer of music while her mother, "Keiko Fuji" was something of a famous singer in her own right back in Japan who enjoyed a fair amount of fame in the late 60's to early 70's. Her mother's talents as both a singer and a songwriter seem to have passed down a generation and now those very same talents run through the veins of her daughter.

Mr Teruzane's father used to work for Shochiku (a famous Japanese movie company. Mr Kiriya Kazuaki's debut film,