Double (singer)
Double (own spelling: DOUBLE) ( born March 14, 1975 in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is the stage name of Japanese R & B singer Takako Hirasawa (Japanese平 泽 贵子, Hirasawa Takako ). Originally double was together a music group with her sister Sachiko Hirasawa (平 泽 幸 子, Sachiko Hirasawa ), after she had died, however, in May 1999, Takako took over the band's name as her stage name. In addition, Double the title Queen of R & B is awarded because it was regarded as the first group or person, the American R & B brought to Japan.
Life
After Sachiko, the older sister, returned from a trip to America, she put her younger sister Takako before the music of Mary J. Blige. This led to the inspiration of the music video Real Love from the year 1992. Since then both decided in the music industry as an R & B- enter Küntlerinnen.
Takako himself says that if she could not have her life as a singer, she would probably work in the makeup industry as a model or stylist.
Career
On February 4, 1998, Double, as a band, their debut. They released their debut single, For Me, which debuted at number 89 on the Oricon charts in Japan. According to other publications, however, succeeded only in 1999 with the single shake for the first time at No. 21 going into the charts. Your record contract they signed with the Japanese record label Music For Life.
However, before their debut album Crystal published on 2 June 1999, died Sachiko, on 21 May 1999, of a brain tumor. Subsequently, the album debuted at # 2 on the charts and was one of the first successes of modern R & B music in Japan. This influenced later debuting artists like Ai, Crystal Kay, and after a change in image, the successful Japanese artist Namie Amuro.
Of course, they were after the death of her sister no endorsements or appearances for the album. In June 2000, she came back into the music industry, the band's name she made for artist name and released her first solo single U, which was produced by Brian Alexander Morgan ( he produced, among others, also for Usher and Mariah Carey ). Her first solo album followed on 29 October 2000, which they published in an English version on 25 April 2001, in Japan.
In the course of her career she published more studio albums and is also under the name DJ Lilly aka Double, DJ known in Japan as.