[Musicians] Hikaru Utada (宇多田光?)

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• Musician Name: Hikaru Utada
• Birthday / Location: January 19, 1983 (39 years old) New York, New York Japanese-American United States
• Main instrument: Pop J-Pop R&B Rock Soul Ethereal Wave Experimental Dance
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• Other Information: Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル 'Utada Hikaru'?) (January 19, 1983), also, by his fans, as Hikki (ヒッキー Hikkī?), is a Japanese-American personality who works as a musician, songwriter and lyricist. .
• Their official debut album in 1999, First Love, immediately became the highest-selling album in Japan in history, being certified 32× Platinum by the RIAJ. He is recognized in Japan and internationally throughout Asia for his songs "Automatic" and "First Love". He was nicknamed by TIME in 2001 as "Diva On Campus", while at Columbia University for a brief, career-breaking semester in 2001. The release of his subsequent works cemented his status as one of the most successful artists of all. times in Japan, with three of their Japanese studio albums ranking in the top ten best-selling albums in Japanese history (#1, #4, #8) and a total of six of their albums, one in English and a compilation album, so far in his career ranked within the list of the 275 highest-selling Japanese albums.
• Hikaru has scored twelve number one hits to date on the Oricon Singles charts, with two notable record-breaking achievements for solo artist or group artist: five of them selling in the millions and four of them in the Top 100 Best-selling Singles of All Time. In 2003, Hikaru was ranked 24th in HMV's "Top 100 Japanese Artists of All Time" and 10th place in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" in 2006.
• Contributed three theme songs to Square-Enix's Kingdom Hearts video game series: "Simple and Clean", "Sanctuary", and "Don't Think Twice", which are English language versions of the songs: "Hikari" , "Passion" and "Chikai", respectively. In 2007, her single "Flavor of Life" reached #2 in the single digital download rankings worldwide with nearly 7.2 million downloads, thus contributing to her 12 million digital sales figure in the same year. Hikaru released his album, titled "This Is the One", on March 14, 2009 in Japan and on March 24, 2009 in the United States in digital format. After seven years, Hikaru released the album "Fantôme", in which the songs relate to her mother's tragic suicide in 2013, about her second marriage in 2016 and also the birth of her first child, which contains previous singles, which they would be: "Sakura Nagashi" (theme song for the movie "Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo"); Hataba Wo Kimi Ni (the song talks about her mother's funeral and is a special farewell moment) and Manatsu No Tooriame. The album debuted at #1 on the Oricon weekly chart, with 250,000 copies sold in its first week, the second-highest debut ever achieved by a solo singer in the same year, second only to American singer Beyoncé's US release. Celebrating 20 years of career, on June 27, 2018, Hikaru releases his latest album, "Hatsukoi" (First Love, in Portuguese) referencing First Love (one of the most famous works). The album contains 12 tracks; among them: Oozora by Dakishimete” (Suntory Tennensui water commercial theme), “Forevermore” (J-drama Gommen, Aishiteru theme), “Anata” (DESTINY Kamakura Monogatari movie theme / SONY NoiCan Wireless Headphones commercial theme ), “Chikai” (theme from the game KINGDOM HEARTS III), “Hatsukoi” (theme from the jdrama Hana Nochi Hare – Hanadan Next), Good Night (theme from the Penguin Highway), and “Play A Love Song” (theme from the commercial Suntory Minami -Alps Sparkling). And in 2018, a new song by Hikaru featuring Skrillex & Poo Bear was confirmed, which will be called "Face My Fears" which will be the opening song of the game "Kingdom Hearts 3" with a release date for the 18th of January of 2019.