YUI / Flower Flower

Name: YUI
Birthday: 1987.3.26
Horoscope: Aries
Birth Place: Fukuoka
Height: 155cm
Blood Type: AB
Favorite Place: Shinguu Beach. (a beautiful beach near her hometown)
Hobbies: Watching movies, reading, acoustic guitar, badminton
Singer and song writer since 18. Joined Sony Group SD Audition in 2004 March and got the highest rank.


YUI is a Japanese J-pop/J-rock artist, born March 26, 1987 in Fukuoka, Japan. She sings, plays the acoustic guitar, and writes her own songs. Two of her songs are featured in Bleach, a Japanese anime series, which has brought her some international attention. The two songs are "LIFE" and "Rolling star", the fifth ending and fifth opening themes, respectively.

Her first full album, From Me to You, was released February 22, 2006. Among its thirteen tracks, nine of them were previously unreleased, and have been well received from her fans. The album has already reached as high as the weekly ninth most sold album in Japan, with the main track, "TOKYO", reaching the number four spot on the MTV Japan's song charts.

YUI began writing poems in ninth grade. At the age of sixteen, by recommendation of her mother, she began studying song, songwriting, and guitar at a private music school in her native Fukuoka. Aspiring to become a professional, she carried her guitar around and sang at local places such as the seashore of Shingu, and in the middle of the rice fields of Kaminofu.

In March 2004, she sang three songs at an audition hosted by Sony Music Japan, as opposed to the audition rule that a participant could only sing two songs. All judges evaluated her with the highest score, which caused a fierce scramble among labels. She first sang "Why Me", which was later coupled with her debut single, followed by "It's happy line" and "I know", the latter of which was included on her indie single. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, she strummed her guitar and sang. The judges and the others present claimed that "the performance created a tremendous aura from her heavenly voice, and captured the hearts of the whole audience".

Upon leaving her home of Fukuoka for Tokyo, YUI wrote the song "feel my soul". She was planning its release on an indie label as a tribute to her hometown, when the song caught the ears of Fuji TV producer Mr. Yamaguchi, who happened to see the demo video clip. He claimed YUI's voice haunted him so much that he went out of his way to visit the recording studio himself. He even made his channel's prime time drama an extraordinary tie-in with YUI's debut track.

Although she is uncomfortable talking to people, she enjoys communicating with her audience at street performances in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka.

YUI starred in a movie released on June 17, 2006, titled Midnight Sun (in Japanese Taiyou no Uta, which was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

credit: YUI-Lover

ok....she have a decent and good biography and discography plus a good career in movie but still haiz.......sorry, she still not in my fav artists list........
(keiko gonna kill me now....hahahahahah)

^^ what akuma said. hahahaha.

YUI is NO.1!!!

What do you think her new single is going to be like? (Namidairo) I'm so excited to hear more news about it!

hmm.. me too i'm cant wait fer her new single maybe different bit again from other single...

YUI, u r my #1!!!!! Iki (short form for ikimono-gakari ) comes second.... sry admin *runs*

natchi wrote:YUI, u r my #1!!!!! Iki (short form for ikimono-gakari ) comes second.... sry admin *runs*

well, same here.. XD

I'm lovin' laugh away.. sou waratte..itsumo waratte..

I fell in love first with Yui.
But it seems I'm loving Kiyoe more.

I love YUI's Laugh away PV..

I can't wait her album..

Laugh away is damn great!

3rd Album Wallpapers

Wow! Third album..
Can't wait..
Thanks for the wall papers!

Yui will perform at Music station(animax) in this friday....
wahhh,, can't wait to see her...

We don't have animax, I'm missing out a lot of things! OTL
I'm such a beggar... alms.. alms..

YUI will perform Namidairo..
It's her first Japanese titled song..

Kind of OT, but with the recent influx of YUI Lover members, I was wondering: How many members here are members there too? I'm a pretty big YUI fan, but I've never managed to join that forum... yet. I think I probably will soon.

flaminity wrote:Yui will perform at Music station(animax) in this friday....
wahhh,, can't wait to see her...

yeah i've seen it (at my friend's house ^^)
yui sang 'laugh away' there.....
what a great song...and the PV's good,too.....

^ hahahahha....
kieru yume from nipponmedia huh??
hashahahaa,,, hellow

ah yeah,, hahahha,, last week yui perf at music station (Animax)

yeah,i'm from nippon media....
just found this forum ^^

btw,pretty unusual,you know,you and i are from the same country but we speak english to each other ^^

*oops,sorry...a little bit of OT (off topic) is fine,right? ^^*

^haha, no worries... still acceptable... btw, u guys heard SUMMER SONG yet??

^yeah heard it. its only a radio rip though and theres white noice in the background..

not bad ^^,


SUMMER SONG single
july 2nd (release date near iki's Blue bird)

Tracklist:

01. SUMMER SONG
02. Oh My God
03. Laugh away ~YUI Acoustic Version~
04. SUMMER SONG ~Instrumental~


normal edition cover:


limited edition cover:


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nooo i haven't heard it.....
the computers at my working place has a 1GB limited usage of internet,so i can't download anything....

wah, YUI new single...
cover is good...now is waiting for released...
hope the song is good...
i'm little dissapointed with YUI latest (third) album...coz' her first and second album is so great...
gambareee YUI chan...
also, in show like music station, please cheer up a little, she like one sad little girl...hehehehe

actually for me

no 1 > YUI
no 2 > Younha
no 3 > Ikimono gakari

hahahahahahah.. (many2 iki fans will be mad at meee )

but still the best j-music band for me is Iki hahahahaha..

YUI !!!!!!!! the best j-pop singerrr !!! hahahaha

[Ayu]noChevalier wrote:wah, YUI new single...
also, in show like music station, please cheer up a little, she like one sad little girl...hehehehe

is that the show where yui looked asleep? well i hate that gossip....