Yui (singer)

Yui (born 26 March 1987 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese singer- songwriter and actress. With their debut album From Me to You her breakthrough came in the Japanese market. Their subsequent albums all reached # 1 on the Oricon charts.

• 2.1 albums
• 2.2 Singles

• 3.1 Taiyo no Uta

Biography

Beginnings and youth

To become a singer in her childhood was planning Yui later. Having previously wrote poems regularly, she decided at age 15 finally to devote their lives to music. According to her own account she was very influenced in this decision by the music of Avril Lavigne, as they admired their skills and this was not much older than themselves A group of street musicians advised her to visit a music school, after she asked them, what they must do to become a musician.

At the age of 16 years Yui joined in Fukuoka in a private music school. There she met professional songwriting and started trying to learn to play guitar. Since she had mainly at night time to practice, earned her the trouble with many neighbors, so she decided to driving at night with her bike to the nearby Shingu, there to practice undisturbed and can be used alone in a rice field. The music video for their debut single It's Happy Line, which was published only two years after these events, was also shot in the rice field. Your first public appearance had Yui a short time later when she on the song Goodbye to You at a street concert of some of their classmates - Michelle Branch - the rhythm guitar and background vocals took over. A little later they met for the first time alone in a live house and played there before her first self-written song Why Me. She herself said that she was very tense during the entire appearance, but subsequently freed and felt happy. Then she began to regularly appear as street musician. The music school in Fukuoka represents today an important part of her life since she learned there not only music, but also the important things in life, as she stated on her website after her debut in the diary.

Breakthrough and acting debut: From Me to You and Taiyo no uta

In March 2004, Yui took part in a seminar organized by Sony Music Japan Music Competition. After first they sent a demo recording to Sony, it was later, together with nine other musicians, from nearly 20,000 applicants are selected and invited to a final casting in Tokyo. Although only two of his own songs from Sony were demanded, she played during her appearance there with Why Me, It's Happy Line and I know three of their songs before. Shortly after this performance, she was awarded a contract with Sony Music Japan, which It's Happy Line released their song on 24 December 2004 as a single, but still under the independent label Leaflet Records. Since she moved to Tokyo in September 2004 she had to commute throughout most of the recordings between Tokyo and Fukuoka. According to information she noticed this change very difficult, because the air in Tokyo very bad and the sky was not particularly nice. In October Yui started her own radio show, which offered her the opportunity several times to travel to her hometown, since there took place the recordings. Shortly before she wrote the song Feel My Soul, which earned her the attention of Fuji TV. The TV station decided na to use their song as theme music for their TV drama Fukigen Jin. Shortly thereafter, Feel My Soul was also successfully released as a single. Since then, their songs are regularly used for various TV dramas and anime series. In the same year followed with Tomorrow 's Way and Life more singles. This, as well as the beginning of 2006 released single Tokyo, but could not quite match the success of their major debuts Feel My Soul, despite good chart positions.

In February 2006, their first studio album, From Me to You, which was praised by most of the media appeared high. The album reached number 4 on the Oricon charts, platinum status in April 2007 and managed to stay a total of 115 weeks in the official standings. Following the album, she began her first tour, the Live Life Love Tour, which a total of eight concerts in seven different places, including in the Shibuya -AX club in Tokyo, included. In March 2006, she won the 20th Nihon Gold Disc Taishō in category New Artist of the Year.

2006 Yui played the lead role in the movie Taiyo no Uta. For her acting debut, she was awarded the Japanese Academy Award for Best Young Actress. The title song for the film, Goodbye Days, was released on 14 June 2006 as a single. Goodbye Days rose in the first week at # 3 in the Japanese charts and became her biggest hit up to that point. With I Remember You and Rolling Star was followed by two more singles that reached both high rankings on the Japanese charts. Although the published in March 2007 Song Cherry was unable to match the commercial success of Goodbye Days, but was - also thanks to a good advertising campaign - one of their best known songs. 2008 Cherry was chosen in a survey from Oricon Style magazine as the third most popular love song of the year.

Chart success: Can not Buy My Love and I Loved Yesterday

On 4 April 2007 their second studio album was released. Can not Buy My Love sat down in the first week with nearly 300,000 copies sold at the peak of the Japanese album charts and reached in August 2007 triple platinum status, making it even surpassed the success of the previous album. The album was followed by the nationwide Spring & Jump- tour, which she performed throughout Japan from April to May 2007, a total three weeks. On June 13 of that same year their double -A -single My Generation / Understand that went already in the first week of its release at # 1 in the charts and thus represents their first number 1 single was released. The music video for My Generation received on 15 March 2008 at the Space Shower Music Awards 2008 prize for best music video 2007 in the category Pop. Shortly thereafter, the single, Love & Truth, although achieved good sales, but was partially taken up by their fans with disappointment appeared. The corresponding B-side jam is next to the beginning of 2008 appeared promotional video to Laugh Away, the only non - single for which a music video was filmed.

In November 2007, Yui appeared for the first time at Nippon Budokan in. The concert was sold out after a short time. Video recordings of the concert were later released on the album I Loved Yesterday. Published in February 2008 Single Namidairo is the first single since Cherry, which did not reach # 1 on the Japanese charts.

On 9 April 2008 the third studio album by Yui appeared. I Loved Yesterday sat down with almost 300,000 copies sold sovereign No. 1 on the Oricon ranking and position 2 in the world charts. The album follow in between May and July 2008 the Oui ~ I Loved Yesterday ~ tour, which is their longest ever tour with twenty-five concerts. On November 12, 2008 Your first B- sides collection My Short Stories was published, which contained all their previous B-sides and the new song I'll Be. This was published on September 2, again in 2009 as Blu- spec CD.

Following the initial report of My Short Stories Yui took a long break. During this she met during a vacation on Okinawa, the band Stereopony, where she composed the music for I Do It from the later of the same Stereopony single. Then they released the single Again, the the bias titles for the 2009- he was also broadcast the anime series Full Metal Alchemist, on 3 June 2009 and the single It's All Too Much / Never Say Die, whose two titles major and minor topic the film Kaiji: . Jinsei Gyakuten game was, on 7 October 2009 Both landed at No. 1 and went along with her previous place -1 Single Summer Song Yui so Hikaru Utada after more than seven years before the first artist with three consecutive singles to square 1 on January 20, 2010 their 15th single Gloria, on June 2, their 16 to Mother and on 24 November 2010 its 17 Rain and on July 14 they released their fifth album Holidays in the Sun, which until all got in at number one on Rain.

In 2011 she published on January 26, their 18th single It's My Life / Your Heaven on June 1, her 19th Hello - Paradise Kiss, both boarded at No. 3, and on October 5, Green a.Live, the court again 1 reached. Your fifth studio album How Crazy Your Love from November 2 also succeeded in entering on the top position.

Your 21 Single Fight was released on 9 September 2012. On October 24, 2012 appeared the tribute album She Loves You, in which twelve of their music from other singers ( Scandal, Negoto, Miwa, Goose House, Shoko Nakagawa, Ayaka Ide, Kylee, Stereopony, Miku Sawai, Dancing Dolls, Aoi Eir and joy ) have been covered.

Published on December 5, 2012, the best-of albums Green Garden Pop Garden Pop and Orange, which started at No. 2 and 3.

Flower Flower

After her performance at the 63rd Kohaku Uta Gassen on 31 December 2012 she took a break again to reorient themselves. On April 2, 2013, the founding of the Rock Band Flower Flower was known in which she is the lead singer and guitarist and will make her official debut concert at Japan Jam 2013 on 3 May 2013. This was accompanied by both an external as well as a change in the artist name of YUI by yui.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums:

• 2006: From Me to You
• 2007: Can not Buy My Love
• 2008: I Loved Yesterday
• 2010: Holidays in the Sun
• 2011: How Crazy Your Love

Compilation:

• 2008: My Short Stories

Best-of Albums:

• 2012: Green Garden Pop
• 2012: Orange Garden Pop

Singles

• 2004: It's Happy Line / I Know ( Double-A single, limited independent release )
• 2005: Feel My Soul
• 2005: Tomorrow 's Way
• 2005: Life
• 2006: Tokyo
• 2006: Good- bye Days
• 2006: I Remember You
• 2007: Rolling Star
• 2007: Che.r.ry
• 2007: My Generation / Understand (double -A -Single)
• 2007: Love & Truth
• 2008: Namidairo
• 2008: Summer Song
• 2009: Again
• 2009: It's All Too Much / Never Say Die (double -A -Single)
• 2010: Gloria
• 2010: To Mother
• 2010: Rain
• 2011: It's My Life / Your Heaven (Double -A -Single)
• 2011: Hello - Paradise Kiss
• 2011: Green a.Live
• 2012: Fight

• 2007: Thank You My Teens ( live DVD recordings of the Spring & Jump- tour in April and May 2007)

Filmography

Taiyo no Uta

The movie Taiyo no Uta was from September to November 2005 shot in Shingu, Fukuoka and appeared on June 17, 2006 in Japanese theaters. Yui plays in this film, the main role of Kaoru Amane, a girl who suffers from Xeroderma pigmentosum. The film refers to various biographical elements of Yui. So Kaoru dreams of becoming a singer and occurs - just like Yui in her youth - regularly as a street musician on. During these appearances Kaoru plays before the songs Goodbye Days, It's Happy Line and Skyline. All the music of the film consists exclusively of variations of songs that Yui wrote. The title song Good-Bye Days was successfully released as a single.

Taiyo no Uta remained after its release several weeks at the top of the Japanese movie charts and was the end of 2007 by Oricon Style in a survey on place eight of the ten saddest movies of all time selected. Yui was honored for Taiyo no Uta with the Japanese Academy Award for Best Young Actress.

From 14 July to 15 September 2006, a drama adaptation starring Erika Sawajiri was aired in the lead role on TBS.

Trivia

• Yui lands since 2007 regularly in the top 3 as published by CDTV ranking " artist that are desired as love partners " (恋人 に し たい アーティスト); to August 2008, even four times consecutively ranked first of February 2007
• Between 2003 and 2004 she attended the same music school in Fukuoka as the Japanese singer Ayaka.
• Goodbye Days is, with around 240,000 units sold, its still the best- selling single and Can not Buy My Love, with nearly 660,000 copies to sell, their most successful album.
• Yui mastered several instruments; among others guitar, piano and drums, and they only play guitar at concerts.