Hikaru Utada is one of Japan’s top singer-song writers.She is also a talented music arranger and record producer.She is well-known among video game players for her songs on Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts games.In 2007, Utada was the best-selling artist in the world in terms of digital sales.She has three albums in Japan’s top ten all-time list.
宇多田光是一位一流的创作型日本歌手。她也是一位才华横溢的音乐编曲者和唱片制作人。她因在史克威尔王国之心游戏中的歌曲而在电子游戏玩家中出名。2007年,宇多田光是世界电子产品的畅销艺术家。她有3个专辑总是排在日本歌榜单的前十。
Utada was born in New York in 1983 into a musical family.Her father was a record producer,her mother an enka singer, and her grandmother a shamisen player.Utada had music in her blood and so carried on in her parents’footsteps.However, her first album in the States failedto be released, so she moved back to Japan.In 1988, Utada signed a recording contract and her debut Japanese singles were huge hits.They led to the phenomenal success of her debut album‘First Love’ in 1999.It is the best-selling Japanese album of all time, selling over 10 million copies to date worldwide.Utada was ranked number five on a Tokyo radio station’s top 100 artists of the 20th Century.In mid-2004,Utada moved back to New York to record an English-language album.Two songs from it, "You Make Me Want to Be a Man" and "Devil Inside" topped the US dance chart.A year later she returned to Japan and made her fourth album ‘Ultra Blue’.Her next album ‘Heart Station’ was releasedin 2008 and is her fifth consecutivenumber one.
译文属可可英语原创,未经允许,不得转载。