Utada Hikaru is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter, arranger and producer. She has released album and songs like Precious , First Love , Automatic , We’ll See , Carry On Without You , Distance among others .

Born name

Hikaru Utada

nickname

Utada Hikaru, Hikki, Cubic U, Diva der Heisei-Zeit

Sun sign

Capricorn

Place of birth

New York City, New York, United States

Residence

Tokyo, Japan

nationality

• Japanese (Jus Sanguinis)
• Amerikaner (Jus Soli, Expatriate)

training

Hikaru Utada attended the Seisen International School and the American School in Japan.

occupation

Singer, songwriter, arranger, producer

family

• Father – Utada Teruzane (Record Producer)
• Mother – Keiko Fuji (Japanese singer) (deceased)
• Siblings – None
• Andere – Saburo Fuji (Onkel)

Manager

Utada Hikaru is managed by –

• Toshiba-EMI Ltd (Recording Company), Tokio, Japan
• Island / IDJMG / Universal (Record Label), New York, USA
• U3 Music (Manager)

Genre

Pop, R&B, Rock, Alternative, Dance, Electronica, Synthpop, Experimental, J-Pop, R&B, Dance, Electronica

instruments

Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Programming Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Programming

labels

• EMI Music Japan (Jungfrau, Foozay, Eastworld) (1997-2013)
• Universal Music Japan (EMI R, Virgin) (2013-present)
• Universal Music (Island, Mercury, EMI) (2004–2010; 2013–Present)
• EMI records
• Virgin Records
• Island Records
• Mercury Records
• Epic Records

To build

Slim

Height

158 cm (5 ft 2¼ in)

weight

49 kg or 108 lbs

friend/spouse

Utadu Hikaru dated –

1. Kazuaki Kiriya (2002-2007) – Utadu and Kazuaki, a photographer and film director, were married but divorced due to a lack of communication due to the nature of their work and personal changes.
2. Francesco Calianno (2014-2018) – Utadu married Francesco Calianno, a bartender, in 2014, but they divorced in 2018. They have a son together.

race/ethnicity

Asian

She is of Japanese descent.

hair colour

Schwarz

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

Slim physique

brand promotion

Utada Hikaru has endorsed NTT DoCoMo cell phones.

Known for

• Posting singles like Automatic We’ll See Moving On Without You First Love Dependent On You Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro Wait & See (Risk) Colors For You Time Limit Can You Keep A Secret ? , You Make Me Want To Be A Man , Travel , Hikari , Sakura Drops , Letters , Goodbye Happiness Among Others
• Albums like First Love , Distance , Deeper River , Exodus , Exodus 4 , Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 1 and 2 , Fantôme (French: Spirit) among others
• TV and movie themed songs like Blow My Whistle for the movie Rush Hour 2 , Hanataba o Kimi ni (Bouquet of Flowers for You) for the TV show Toto Neechan in 2016, and Manatsu no Tōriame for a TV channel’s news program NEWS ZERO, Prisoner of Love for the show Last Friends, Anata from Destiny Kamakura Monogatari , Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro from Casshern , Beautiful World from Evangelion, don’t think twice from Kingdom Hearts III, simple and clean fromKingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories among others

First album

Utada Hikaru started and later released her first solo project titled I Will Be Stronger in 1996 under the stage name Cubic U.

Utada released her debut English album, Precious in early 1998. She released her first Japanese album, First Love , at the age of 16 in 1999.

First TV show

She made her TV show debut on Hero , a comedy crime drama series in 2001.

As a composer, she worked in the drama-romance series Majo no jouken in 1999.

Personal trainer

There’s not much information out there about her personal fitness journey, but we believe filming the music videos and her lean physique require some level of exercise and a proper diet.

Utada Hikaru Lieblingssachen

• Regisseur – Hayao Miyazaki
• Musicians and Composers – Chick Corea, Freddie Mercury, Yutaka Ozaki, Nine Inch Nails, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Édith Piaf, Björk, Lenny Kravitz, Béla Bartók, Mozart, Jeff Buckley, The Blue Nile and Hibari Misora
• Schriftsteller – Kenji Miyazawa, Kaiko Takeshi, RyunosukeNakagami Akutagawa, Yasunari Kawabata, Natsume Soseki, Yukio Mishima, Junichiro Tanizaki, Hermann Hesse, Endo Shusaku, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Elie Wiesel, John Berendt, F. Scott Fitzald und George Orwell

Utada Hikaru Facts

1. Her parents are Japanese, but she was born in the United States.
2. Her ex-husband Kazuaki Kiriya was 15 years older than her. She married at the age of 19.
3. Utada started writing music and lyrics at the age of 10.
4. She is an only child and has no problem being alone.
5. Utada can sing, play piano, guitar, synthesizer and program.
6. Her mother helped with her recordings. Their first band was called “U3” or “Utada 3”.
7. Utada’s mother, a popular Japanese singer, reportedly committed suicide by jumping from the 13th floor of a building in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
8. Their first album Wertvoll was released in 1998 under the name “Cubic U” with Toshiba-EMI. It was an English album and a commercial failure.
9. Her Japanese debut album First Love sold more than 10,000 copies in Japan and overseas.
10. Her single Dependent On You sold 1 million in its first week; the highest sales by a solo artist and stayed at the top of the chart for two consecutive weeks.
11. She had a benign tumor in her ovary, but it was successfully removed.
12. Utada likes to read.
13. She is one of the 100 richest people in Japan.
14. Some of her albums like Deep River and Valuable are multi-platinum albums.
15. She is fluent in English and Japanese.
16. Her song Hikari (Simple and Clean) is well known in the US.
17. She doesn’t enjoy fame.
18. She kept her pregnancy a secret and only made the announcement after the baby was born.
19. Utada likes to make drinks himself.
20. She makes orange juice every morning.
21. Utada is obsessed with keeping her home clean.
22. She doesn’t like going to the gym because she doesn’t like being around people she doesn’t know.
23. Her nickname “Cubic U” is a mathematical reference to her being the 3rd Utada “Power”.
24. She moved to Tokyo in 1998 and continued recording under Toshiba-EMI.
25. She has 9 studio albums, 3 compilation albums, 11 video albums and 33 singles as of March 2019.
26. Her compilation album Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 1 became the best-selling album of 2004 in Japan, the first compilation album to hit #1 in 26 years by a female artist, and the first compilation album to hit the number one on the annual charts and the 34th best-selling album ever in the country.
27. She is the only group or solo artist to reach No. 1 four times on the annual charts.
28. Utada returned to New York in mid-2004 and began working with the Island Def Jam musical group .
29. She returned to Tokyo in 2005.
30. Her digital single Das ist Liebe received 1 million digital downloads.
31. Her fourth album, Ultra Blue , was EMI’s tenth best-selling album and the best-selling original studio album by a Japanese artist of 2006.
32. Utada’s 5th album Herzstation was released in 2008 and became Japan’s #1 Selling Digital Album on the iTunes 2008 Annual Album Chart and #1 Selling Original Studio Album by an Artist on the Oricon Yearly Chart.
33. Oricon’s annual reader poll voted Utada the “#1 Favorite Artist of 2008”.
34. She sang a duet Let it snow with Mika, a pop singer.
35. On August 9, 2010, she announced that she was taking an indefinite hiatus of 2–5 years due to fatigue.
36. Her Fantôme (French: ghost) released in 2016, the album topped the Oricon Albums Chart for four consecutive weeks and became the Japan Record Awards and Oricon named it the third-best selling physical record of the year.
37. In 2017 it was announced that she would join Sony Music Japan.
38. She draws inspiration from Aaliyah, Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige.
39. She is conservative in her dressing, avoiding cleavages and bare legs.
40. Utadu has a clothing line, a calendar, and a self-drawn cartoon pet named “Chuichi”.
41. She released one album, Hatsukoi in 2018.
42. She advised her fans not to buy the album Utada the Best because her heart wasn’t in the release and she didn’t want her fans to buy anything that didn’t support her. The album was produced by Universal Japan. She directed fans to the Utada Hikaru Single Collection vol. 2 which was published on the same day.
43. All of the theme songs for the Kingdom Hearts game series were sung by Utada.
44. Visit their website at www.utadahikaru.jp.
45. Follow her on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.