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In japan, Ayumi Hamasaki is called, in all simplicity , "the queen of the Jpop"
For good reasons , this megastar is the female artist with the most singles ranked first in the charts
Each release, apperance or live is an event which cause everythime
a big craze from the japanese and international audience.
A short time ago, Ayumi Hamasaki was in Paris for the premiere of BUDDHA2
she has write the theme song of this movie
the second part of the saga inspired by the work of Osamu Tezuka
More of that, these days Ayumi has released a new song
Well, the 35 years old star is on the top on her career
and it was high time for us to come back on the story of this superstar.
It's a Jpop legend and even more
Ayumi Hamasaki celebrates this year the 15th anniversary of her carreer.
A great number in a show business quick to get rid of its past idols
but the path of the singer hasn't been easy
Back on the fate of a fighter woman
Ayumi had a difficult childhood
between an absent father and a distant mother
During her teenage years, she struggle to find her way
and starts a gravure idole carreer
It's not the most pleasent time for the futur artist.
But those years of model will help her image of fashion leader
that she has kept today
Detected by a Idole agency, Ayu tries drama and music
but without much success and enthousiasm.
The girl didn't fit into the prefabricated artist's mould
the meeting with the producer Masato "Max" Matsuura breaks the deadlock.
Ayumi wasn't a constant student
but by his side, she asserts herself as a prolific and sensitive songwriter.
The first singles come out of the shadows
but it wasn't until 1999 with the release of the album A song for xx
that she reaches the top of the charts and attracts the japanese media.
Ayu becomes an essential artist for the japanese
and reigns unchallenged until the beginning of 2010.
The young ingenue became a talented business woman.
It must be said that the artist was inspired by Madonna and by other international stars
carries out a multiple carreer in a american way.
With traditionnal ballades, rock or electro songs
Ayu doesn't hesitate to get out of her comfort zone
but she's still an incontestable hitmaker.
In recent years, Ayumi is starting to loose ground
to some other pop figures as Koda Kumi or Namie Amuro
It's difficult for her last works to gather audience
But the star can rely on her strong and always beloved fanbase,
and who has never letting her down.
These days, she comes back with "Pray"
the theme song of the second BUDDHA movie
A new start for Ayumi Hamasaki ?
Nobody knows but it doesn't matter
for this artist who has nothing more to prove.