Ayumi Hamasaki was brought up by her mother and grandmother in her childhood. As her father left home when he was about 2 years old, she had a vague impression of him. At the same time, her mother has to go out to work. In such a family environment, Ayumi Hamasaki lived a relatively free life in his childhood. Since the age of 7, she has been a special model for the birthplace of Fukuoka Central Bank and Iwata House. Until the age of 14, she still worked as a model to help support her family. When she was in high school, because she was often busy with modeling work, her low attendance rate in the school made her a problem student in the eyes of teachers. Also, because she was dressed in fashionable clothes, she dyed her hair and wore short skirts, and she often interacted with mobs, the nearby residents secretly branded her as a bad girl, and even her children were not allowed to approach her. When she was in the second grade of middle school, she participated in the actor recruitment of Asahi TV drama "twins Teacher" (twin teacher). She played one of the supporting roles, Lihua Tao. At that time, her office was SOS model agency. While filming Teacher twins, she met her ex-boyfriend Tomoya Nagase and became interested in acting. After finishing junior high school, she left her hometown Fukuoka and went to Tokyo alone to formally enter the entertainment industry.
Entering the entertainment industry (1995 -1997)
AyumiHamasaki began to participate in some low-cost dramas and B-rated films in the early days, and began to use the stage name "KurumiHamazaki" until it was officially renamed "Hamasaki" in September 1995. She also signed a contract with Japanese Columbia Records and released her first album NOTHINGFROMNOTHING, in which all the songs were mainly Rap, and Ayumi Hamasaki took the first step to become a singer. However, due to the complete lack of publicity, the record sales were unsatisfactory, so it was quickly abandoned by the record company. Ayumi Hamasaki also returned to the ranks of B-class idols and continued to perform in the series.
Because her works were not very popular, she soon became discouraged, and she often spent time shopping and singing karaoke in Shibuya street. It was also during this period that Ayumi Hamasaki's views on life were honed. At that time, her record company's management of employees was very strict, and employees were forbidden to go out to work, so Ayumi Hamasaki asked her friends to work in a company opened by a friend's house, but her income was not satisfactory, and she had to share with her friends when ordering food. In 1997, Ayumi Hamasaki's name disappeared completely in the Japanese art circle just like into thin air's, but it doesn't mean that Ayumi Hamasaki's acting career is over. At this time, Masato Matsuura, who was still a music producer at that time (one of the founders of Japanese Aihui Music, is now the president of the company. ) and sign an audition contract. However, in the early days, she had the idea of giving up because she felt depressed about singing training. Later, she was transferred by Masato Matsuura to new york, USA for further training, and was ready to make her debut again. At the same time, at the suggestion of Matsuura, she also began to try to write lyrics.
Take-off period (1998 -1999)
In 1998, Ayumi Hamasaki made her debut after completing about one year's training. On April 8th, she released her first single pokerface in Aihui, ranking 2th on the Japanese Oricon record list, and achieved a good result. In the following months, she released singles intensively, and her third single "Trust" successfully reached the ninth place in the public trust list, which was the first time that her single entered the top 1 in the public trust list. Since then, the sales of her released records have been increasing, partly because some songs have been used as the theme songs of best-selling games or dramas, which has increased her popularity.
In 1999, Ayumi Hamasaki released her first album "AsongforXX", which became the champion in the album list of Oricon records in Japan for five weeks in a row, and sold more than 1.45 million copies, breaking the record of a new female singer for 19 years, which made her widely noticed in Japan. The lyrics of her songs are very popular among young people, especially among young women. At that time, her avant-garde and fashionable dress was also welcomed by high school girls, which formed a social phenomenon in Japan and was even called "the pop leader of female college students." In April of the same year, the single "LOVE~Destiny~" won Ayumi Hamasaki's first record top single, with sales exceeding 65, copies, while in July of the same year, the single "Boys &; Girls is known as Ayumi Hamasaki's famous song. When this single was released, Yami Suzuki, another newcomer in the Japanese music scene at that time, also released the single "BeTogether", and the sales of the two singles collided and became a controversial object in the Japanese pop music industry. Later, the sales volume of this single exceeded the million mark, but it broke through later than the last single, so it was my second million single. Through this work, it also began to change the form of Japanese single in history. A single contains more than 1 tracks (original songs plus remixes). The single "A", which was released in August, broke through one million earlier than the previous single, and it was the first single with one million, which set a new record for single sales in Ayumi Hamasaki, and sold more than 1.63 million copies. This record has been maintained to this day. Then, in the same year, the second album LovePears (Love Now) was released, and the design of the album's cover challenge scale caused controversy at that time. On the same day, the first limited-edition single appears was released, with LovePears as a white cover and appears as a black cover. Despite this, the album sold more than 2.56 million copies. Repeated success in sales made Ayumi Hamasaki quickly climb to the position of the diva of Japanese music. At the end of the same year, Ayumi Hamasaki attended the battle of red and white songs for the first time and sang "Boys &; Girls》。
When Ayumi Hamasaki, the leader of Variety, arrived in Taiwan Province, some Fans cried for her, but in Shanghai, everyone was frightened by the team of bodyguards who were waiting for the dark, and silently looked through the autumn waters. Half an hour later, a little girl with a height of less than 1.6 meters came out like a willow. Wearing a hat, a pair of big eyes hovering, and colorful nails are scary. It is difficult to associate this little woman with the beautiful talented woman in the photo. Someone told me that this is called variety, which can turn into a god for a while and a girl next door for a while. When you are silent, you are loved, and when you talk, you are fascinated. Variety is to make two contradictory temperament coexist in the same body: sexy and fresh. Because she is Ayumi Hamasaki. The beauty that the Japanese like has always been "young teeth", and the change of people should be fast enough. But when everything came to Ayumi Hamasaki, the rules changed completely. She was still so popular after so long, and people called her the "pop guru". In the ever-changing Japanese fashion, only Ayumi Hamasaki, a 3-year-old beauty, is a visionary-because everyone knows that whatever Bujie likes must be popular. Panther with long claws and cool eyes derived from bunny who caters to the public, butterfly face from movie The Silence of the Lambs poster, and even computer-generated flawless half cat face and half beauty face, all is forgiven, Ayumi Hamasaki.
When she was 2 years old, she broke through the cocoon of become a butterfly and became a famous creative singer in the industry with amazing speed, integrating lyrics, composition and singing. The world is in a downturn, the economy is shrinking, the fiscal deficit, the financial bubble ... These terrible words have no influence on Ayumi Hamasaki, 25. She just keeps singing, singing, changing, changing, becoming more and more red and purple. It set an unprecedented record that the total sales amount of single songs exceeded 5 billion yen for three consecutive years, and became the first singer in the history of japanese pop whose total sales amount of music CDs exceeded 2 billion yen for two consecutive years. In 21, Ayumi Hamasaki won more than 2 various music and fashion awards a year. In 22, Ayumi Hamasaki won two consecutive championships in two days: one was the highest honor award of "all japan request award". The most noteworthy thing is her nails. She is the Japanese "nail queen" for three consecutive times. Ayumi Hamasaki, as an artist who drives the nail trend and knows how to match nails and fashion, is listed as a palace figure in the nail industry ... She not only has a beautiful shell, but also is good at writing lyrics. In the album "I am ..." in 22, she successfully arranged most of the lyrics.
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