Aya Ueto
Aya Ueto (Jap.上 戸 彩, Ueto Aya, born September 14, 1985 in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese idol. She works as a musician, actress, voice actress, and model.
Biography
Her mother inspired her to audition for television. In August 1997 she took part in the seventh beauty contest Zen Nihon Kokuminteki Bishojo Contest (全日本 国民 的 美少女 コンテスト) and received at this the Special Jury Prize. This was followed several appearances in commercials.
In 1999, she founded the J- pop band Z-1 with Mami Neijki, May Fujiya and Manami Nishiwaki. The band broke up after the release of only five singles on again. Two years later she received a recording contract with Pony Canyon and began a solo career. Her first solo single Pureness released in August 2002 and was an immediate success. The song made it to number four on the Oricon singles chart, Ueto published in March 2003, first album AYAUETO at number five on the album charts. Since then she has released several more singles and albums.
One of her first roles as an actress she had in 2000 with the fourteen- year-old Momo Fuchigami fuite in the TV drama Namida o where Yosuke Eguchi took over the lead role. Other television dramas founded a high level of awareness for Ueto. In the film adaptation of the manga series Ace o Nerae as a television series she took over in 2004, for example, the main role of tennis player Hiromi Oka. She also wrote the theme song to the series, Ai no tame ni. , Which came to number six on the Oricon singles chart and its hitherto successful single Pureness trumped with sales of over 99,000. A month after the release of Ai no tame ni. followed by the corresponding album MESSAGE, which also managed to sixth place on the Oricon charts. The double single release with the two tracks Kaze and Okoru kotoba placed on the eighth of the charts.
In the television adaptation of another sports manga, Attack No.. 1, it was seen from April to June, 2005 in the title role. The Ending song for the eleven-part volleyball series was Ueto Yume no Chikara single that came up in seventh place on the Oricon charts and sold over 85,000 times.
2004 Ueto campaigned for ten different companies and received for various commercials in the year 45 million yen. Even in 2003 there were only 30 million yen.
In Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi movie from 2003, the film adaptation of a manga series created by Yū Koyama, she played the protagonist, who was raised together with nine other orphans and works in a historical Japan as a sword fighter. For this illustration, we awarded them with Japanese Academy Awards in the categories Best Newcomer and Most Popular Actor. She was also nominated for Best Actress, but Shinobu Terajima ( Akame shijuya taki shinju Misui ) had to concede defeat. In 2005, the sequel Azumi 2 came - Death or Love in Japanese theaters, again with Ueto in the lead role. In 2004, she was as Asako Nozawa, the protagonist can be seen in Kei Kataokas film Install, the based on the award -winning best-selling novel by Risa Wataya.