Artist: Namie Amuro
Genre(s):
Hip-Hop
Other
Pop: Japan
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
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Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Funky Town
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
I Wanna U Know (cd2)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
I Wanna U Know (cd1)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 25
CAN'T SLEEP CAN'T EAT I'M SICK
Year: 2006
Tracks: 5
Queen of Hip-Pop
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
All For You
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Alarm
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
So Crazy - Come Single
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
When Pop Hits The Lab
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
I WILL
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
Good Life Just Say So
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
GENIUS 2000
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Toi et mo
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
How to be a Girl
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Dreaming I was dreaming
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Concentration 20
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Can you celebrate
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Taiyou no season
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Chase the Chance
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Dancing Junk
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Aishite masukatto
Year: 1993
Tracks: 2
Koi no cute beat
Year: 1992
Tracks: 2
Dance Tracks Vol. 1
Year:
Tracks: 13
Baby Don't Cry
Year:
Tracks: 4
Namie Amuro is Japanese pop's almost resilient matinee idol. Debuting in 1992 with the all-girl five-piece Super Monkey's, where she first caught the attending of Tetsuya Komuro, the producer/songwriter wHO would go on to sHAPE her early calling, Amuro has bounced back from hurdles that have felled lesser J-pop idols (videlicet elevation a family and disjoint) to persist on top. And care any J-pop starlet worth a theme song to a strike anime moving-picture show, Amuro has reinforced up a solid resonance with her fans through her sense of style as much as for her music, which is fundamentally R&B-influenced pop, harder edged and more than risqué than that of her equal Ayumi Hamasaki.
Born in the city of Naha, in Japan's southern tropical islands of Okinawa, Namie Amuro (born Namie Maruyama on September 20, 1977) began playing from an early age, bucked up by her female parent. Amuro's solo career did non take off until her irregular album, Dulcet 19 Blues, released in July 1996 on Avex Trax. Few albums ar as emblematical of an geological era. Preceded by the single "Body Feels Exit" in October 1995, Odorous 19 Blues was written and produced by Tetsuya Komuro, a former extremity of the mid-'90s pop work Globe and wHO went on to master the Japanese pop landscape painting as a ballad maker and producer.
Scented 19 Blues, released with no less than quadruplet different sleeves, typified the songwriting and production values of Komuro -- videlicet, a extremely polished dance-pop heavy characterized by discotheque rhythms and funky basslines. As a solvent of its immense sales (over three million albums sold in Japan), it is as well the Amuro album to the highest degree associated with her legion of young fans, dubbed "Amura" by the media and wHO, for the most part, followed their idol's lead in dyeing their tomentum brown, plucking their eyebrows, and proudly wearing away the same fashion accessories. High heels, a mini, and tattoos -- in addition to Amuro's provocative dance routines featured in her videos -- all added up to an tout ensemble less wholesome simulacrum than that perpetuated by Amuro's contemporaries. Komuro was likewise behind the controls for Amuro's tierce album, Concentration 20, released in August 1997, including the gospel-influenced individual "Pot You Celebrate?" The musical theme song to the Fuji TV dramatic play Virgo Road, it went on to sell two meg copies, seemly a karaoke staple and a popular alternative as a hymeneals vocal with danton True Young Japanese couples.
An enforced hiatus came around in 1997 when Amuro, aged 20, became pregnant with fellow and succeeding husband Sam (Masaharu Maruyama) of the pop radical TRF. This far from sense the end of her vocation, and Amuro presently launched a successful replication at the end of 1998 with a performance on the wide watched New Year's tV picture Kohaku Uta Gassen, beam on NHK. Avex brought the heavyweight R&B production talents of Dallas Austin in for Amuro's fourth album, Mastermind 2000, released in January 2000. Austin's previous credits included TLC, Boyz II Men, and Monica. Amuro played to great hundred,000 fans in total during her nationwide circuit of Japan in March of the same twelvemonth. While she was widening her compass of collaborators (she would too record with the well-thought-of Japanese blame yoke m-flo), Amuro earned her first songwriting course credit, for the 2001 single "Say the Word." At the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Amuro was awarded the "Inspiration Award Japan" as acknowledgement for her influence on Japanese pop.
Another hiatus of sorts was broken in December 2003 when Amuro released her first album of original material in three age, Stylus, an album with a marginally more than mealy R&B edge that took her closer in sound to her musical idol, Janet Jackson. Significantly, for this album Amuro had ended her musical relationship with Komuro. The transformation from dance-pop to a more mature, transatlantic sound was completed with Amuro's following album, 2005's suitably titled Queen of Hip-Pop, Amuro's best-selling liberation since 2000's Mastermind 2000.
