hitomi

hitomi (ヒトミ) is a model turned singer, She is known for her highly sexy image and not being afraid to express her sexuality. Her debut single, Let's Play Winter, was released in 1994 and her second album by myself was able to reach #1 on the Oricon charts. She has released 10 albums to date and has a rather consistent sound, with a nice rock feel to her tracks. Recently her music is more dance/pop.

Like many Japanese artists, hitomi was first produced by Komuro Tetsuya, one of the top Japanese producers of the 1990s. Komuro scouted her at a modeling audition, and produced hitomi until he encouraged her to do her own songwriting. This was first shown in her album thermo plastic, released in 1999. The album reached #2 on the Oricon.

The spirit of her sexuality is evident in many of her single and album covers, and even titles of her albums. The title of her single compilation h may be seen as just the first letter of her name, but it also a euphemism for sex, as the Japanese pronunciation of the letter is "etchi" or ecchi.

hitomi is married to an executive in the Japanese advertising industry and has been since 2002. She has never disclosed any information about her husband, other than that they had been close friends since their first meeting eight years earlier. It has been speculated that he is (like her) a Kanagawa native based in Tokyo.

hitomi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Humanities (majoring in Applied Sociology), awarded by the Kanto Gakuin University of Yokohama, Japan.

hitomi has made no secret of the fact that she holds the American singer Madonna as her idol, and that she hopes to have a career like the material girl's. hitomi even went as far as to deliver a brief rendition of Madonna's hit song Like A Virgin at a 2001 concert, as a tribute to her personal heroine.

In 2007 hitomi made her debut as an actress in the Japanese horror film Nightmare Detective. hitomi co-starred with Ryuhei Matsuda, an actor who played Honjou Ren in the popular NANA live action films. Declining to reprise her character again in the sequel to Nightmare Detective, hitomi made her stage debut in the play Waiting for the sun. The play lasted from August 8, 2007 to September 2, 2007; hitomi played one of the title characters.

Then in November 2007 it was reported that hitomi was getting divorced. It was also revealed that hitomi's ex-husband was once in a band called GAS BOYS (disbanded before hitomi met him) and that hitomi never had any children. The next month hitomi released peace, a single collection album.

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