According to Japanese media reports, Japanese diva singer Hamasaki gave birth secretly as early as last November, until she shared the news of her mother in the fan forum, and was not well known to the public.
As for who the father of the child is, Ayumi Hamasaki did not announce the other party, the two did not marry, and there was no intention of getting married.
Surprisingly, Ayumi Hamasaki never revealed it to the outside world from pregnancy to childbirth, and there were still stage performances three months before the birth of the child, and the media did not even notice.
Ayumi Hamasaki Stage Photo (2019.8.24 )
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Looking back at the entire 2019, Ayumi Hamasaki has appeared in front of the camera, and has not seen the appearance of a large belly, and many melon-eating people have begun to wonder if she is looking for surrogacy.
In the face of such rumors, Ayumi Hamasaki personally posted an article to counter the surrogacy rumors.
She said:
I have a fantastic team of all-round outfits, makeup, hairstyles and even doctors and midwives who give me full support 24 hours a day.
It is precisely because of this environment that I can return to work immediately after giving birth, thanks to my family and friends who have been by my side to support me.
In fact, as early as November 8 last year, some media photographed Ayumi Hamasaki appearing in a high-end beauty salon.
Although the stomach is covered with a scarf, it can still be seen to some extent, but the postpartum body is quickly slimmed down, and the god is unconscious
When Hamasaki Busheng was on the hot search, many melon-eating people actually did not know who Hamasaki Bu was.
This makes the editor angry!
In fact, think about it, don't blame them, Ayumi Hamasaki has been silent in the music world for many years, although she has appeared, but many media have long stopped paying attention to her every move.
Let's take a look at some of her achievements
The highest-selling female singer in Asia
The guinness book of female singers with the most Guinness records in Asian history
Asia's first female singer to play a song on the space station
The first Japanese artist to be interviewed by China's state media (CCTV).
The first singer in Asia to appear on the cover of Time Magazine (non-Asian edition).
……
So many glorious records are too much for Ayumi Hamasaki, and they are no longer important to herself.
After all, for most Chinese people, many people who know Japanese singers start with Ayumi Hamasaki.
Rebel youth
On October 2, 1978, Ayumi Hamasaki was born into an ordinary family in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and for various reasons, her father abandoned the family when she was three years old.
Her impression of her father is very vague, because her mother has to go out to earn money, and the warmest memory of her childhood is the years when she was with her grandmother.
Later, Ayumi Hamasaki described himself as a "boy" who liked to be alone.
In order to make life better for her family, 7-year-old Ayumi Hamasaki worked as a part-time model in the local area.
Ayumi Hamasaki knew she loved beauty, so for her dreams, she came to Tokyo alone at the age of 14 to study and work as a part-time model in an agency company.
Due to the different types of needs, she will often change her dressing style, including hair coloring, nail art, and wearing miniskirts.
There are even some photo album photos, which are regarded as "problem girls" by their classmates.
She was later transferred to Columbia Records by an agency and subsequently released the album "Nothing From Nothing", which was well received and was soon abandoned by the company.
After trying and failing, she began to develop her career in acting, participating in small supporting roles in "Twins Teacher", playing soy sauce in the Japanese version of "Journey to the West", and starring in various eighteen-line small roles such as the same-sex movie "Quicksand Fantasy Love".
Stills from Quicksand Fantasy Love
In the past few years, Ayumi Hamasaki's academic performance has plummeted, her work has not improved, and her relatives and friends, including neighbors, have not had a very good impression of her.
Subsequently, she met Katsuhito Matsuura, a music producer for AVEX TRAX.
At that time, Ai Hui Records' "legendary singer" Namie Amuro announced that she was married to dancer Masamune Maruyama and retired from the music scene.
Katsuto Matsuura, who lost Namie Amuro, began to discover new talents.
At that time, Ayumi Hamasaki was still working in a nightclub, and Katsuto Matsuura discovered her and saw her future talent and potential.
Just in August 2019, from Hamasaki's autobiographical novel "M My Precious Man", it was confirmed that the two fell in love at first sight and had an unknown love.
The two were photographed
At this time, Matsuura did not rush to let her debut, but secretly sent her to the United States for special training, and let her try to compose lyrics.
In this way, Ayumi Hamasaki disappeared for a year.
Rise of The Goji
On April 8, 1998, Ayumi Hamasaki released his debut single "Poker Face", which officially debuted
Later, with the help of Katsuhito Matsuura, he released his new album "A Song for XX".
《A Song for XX》封面
It was this album that made Hamasaki Bu quickly reach the top of the public trust list and won the first place for 5 consecutive weeks, with a total album sales of 1.5 million copies, which is also Hamasaki's first million-selling album.
Why is this album so successful?
At that time, Japan was in the late stage of the bursting of the bubble economy, coupled with the rumor that "the last day of the 20th century was the end of the world" was spreading, and "mourning" became a microcosm of the entire society.
The lyrics for the album were all undertaken by Ayumi Hamasaki herself, and she added her observation of life, confusion about music, and lonely individualism to it, which quickly resonated with many people.
Album cover of "A BEST", in which "A Song for XX" was re-recorded
And her cry was very blunt:
"Why cry, why be confused, why stand still, please tell me when I will grow up, can I be a child forever, where I am running from, where I am going, where I am not sheltering, I don't know if the future is worth looking forward to ..."
This song has saved many young people who are full of uncertainties about the future, and has given them courage and strength with personal experience.
It can be said that "A Song for XX" gives the moment of turning into a butterfly, telling the past and looking forward to the future.
In 1999, on January 1, she appeared as a newcomer for the first time at the Japanese Spring Festival Gala - Red and White Song Festival.
This successful debut has given Ayumi Hamasaki unprecedented attention and brought great shock to the current young boys and girls in Japan.
He was found in a documentary, and the interview asked: Why sing?
She said: In order to find your own place.
So Ayumi Hamasaki threw himself into the music, almost at the speed of one song every two months and one album a year.
You know, in that era when digital equipment was not yet perfect, almost no one could do such high-density and high-quality output.
In 2001, A BEST was Ayumi Hamasaki's debut compilation album, which included songs from A song for xx, LOVEppears, and some of the songs from the Duty album.
Fourth solo album "A BEST"
There are many classic tracks, including "LOVE~Destiny~", "To Be", "Boys & Girls", "Appears", "Trust", "Trauma" and so on.
In the next five years, Ayumi Hamasaki produced a series of masterpieces, including her "InuYasha" ending song "Dearest" with D.A.I (The Great Infinity Orchestra), as well as nearly 30 songs such as the god-level arrangement "Heartplace" and "HANABI".
Among them, "Evolution" has sold more than one million copies and has been rated as one of the 30 most popular songs in Heisei in the 30 years
International interviews followed, as well as countless awards.
The first singer to appear on the cover of Time Magazine (non-Asian edition) (March 25, 2002)
The first Japanese artist to be interviewed by the US state media (CNN) (2006.12.8)
The first Japanese artist to be interviewed by China's official media (CCTV) (March 28, 2007)
There are also countless awards of various kinds, and even she announced that she withdrew from all awards because she was too soft to win the awards...
Of course, behind such a high-intensity effort, her body also planted the seeds of injury.
Fashion godfather
In addition to her high achievements in music, Ayumi Hamasaki has also brought a different trend to Japan and even Asia.
In 2000, Ayumi Hamasaki's third album "Duty" was released, the cover was a very charming leopard girl showing a bumpy figure, flaming red lips and rhinestone nails, exuding a unique wild and mysterious temperament in the bones.
Subsequently, similar looks triggered the leopard print fever in the Japanese fashion industry, and Ayumi Hamasaki's "Leopard Girl" giant advertisement could be seen everywhere in Tokyo, so that the new album "Guilty" was once again shown with leopard print skirts.
Subsequently, Ayumi Hamasaki began the blonde Barbie style, the delicate face plate plus thick bangs, showing her pure beauty doll face, many artists have followed suit.
Of course, what makes women even more crazy is the big eye makeup from the Hamasaki step.
In her hottest years, her original big-eye painting method also made the whole of Asia crazy, and for a time many girls wanted to have her soul-hooking eyes.
The heat of makeup has not faded, and all kinds of accessories have become popular again.
For example, fox tail accessories, Face stickers, and various painted nails.
For nail painting, Ayumi Hamasaki paid special attention to it, and at that time, nail art was purely European and American fashion, and Asians could rarely control it.
Ayumi Hamasaki took the lead in matching it with his own dressing style, driving the popularity of nail art in Japan.
Who would have thought that Ayumi Hamasaki won the japanese "Nail Queen" three consecutive championships, and the hall of fame in the nail art business.
Ayumi Hamasaki's personal nail show
There is also that she likes to wear very personal clothes, and under her leadership, the popularity of various styles has never stopped.
Examples include beggar jeans, improved kimonos, and exaggerated costumes at concerts.
It is no exaggeration to say that Ayumi Hamasaki led the trend of Japan and even Asia for an era.
Emotional experiences
In 1993, when Ayumi Hamasaki was an eighteen-line actor, he met Tomoya Nagase while participating in the Japanese drama TWINS Teacher.
The two didn't have much contact after filming, and after 7 years, they met again while participating in a music show and began an underground affair.
In 2001, Ayumi Ayumi Hamasaki bravely announced his relationship, and At this time, Nagase was already the lead singer of the group TOKYO under the Janis Agency (the company's artists include Takuya Kimura, Hisato Yamashita, etc.).
The public love affair between the two hot stars once attracted strong attention from the Japanese media.
In the 7-year love period between the two people, there are various gossip, tattoo show love, feelings fade, foreign new love and so on.
In 2007, Ayumi Hamasaki announced that they had broken up, and as for the reason, the outside world was vague, and perhaps they knew it in their own hearts.
One day in 2016, Ayumi Hamasaki posted a photo on Instagram, generously revealing his tattoo, as if to tell the world that I had already put it down.
Later, Ayumi Hamasaki experienced two very failed marriages.
The first is manuel Schwarz, an Austrian model who starred in his own MV, and the two officially divorced after less than a year of bonding.
The reason for the divorce was that it was the time of the great earthquake in Japan, and the man wanted Hamasaki to leave Japan to settle abroad, but Hamasaki did not give in, and finally parted ways.
The second is Tyson Bodkin, a graduate student at the University of California, whose marriage ended in divorce after three years.
During this period, there were also various romances, including the dance partner in the team, Uchiyama Kuji, who was caught in the whirlpool of divorce, and Junpei Araki, a small fresh meat who was 20 years apart.
In short, these negative relationships and marriages have pulled people's infinite fantasies about Hamasaki's personal life.
Times are changing, and so are the tastes of the Japanese people.
"Falling" to the altar
At the height of Hamasaki's pace, intense creation and frequent tours overwhelmed her body.
As early as 2000, at a solo concert, her ears suddenly appeared a huge tinnitus sound, in order not to let fans see, she could only put down the duck tongue hat, and she was in pain on the stage.
During rehearsal, due to an injury to the left ear, the stage lift was not noticed, resulting in a fall to the knee.
After being sent to the hospital for examination, he pushed a wheelchair to the concert site, and finally relied on painkillers to insist on singing for more than two hours of concert.
With the advent of the late intensive concert, many people found that Ayumi Hamasaki began to speak backwards, the high pitch was unstable, and even the situation of out-of-tune appeared.
The melon-eating masses began to complain that she only cared about making money, but did not maintain her singing skills.
However, the condition was not well known until 2008, when Ayumi Hamasaki regrettably announced to fans that he had completely lost his left ear hearing.
In the same year, when the Red and White Song Festival was about to open, Ayumi Hamasaki broke her right hand due to anemia, and the doctor suggested that she should rest quietly for more than 3 weeks in order to recover.
But she still went on the field with bandages and gloves.
All kinds of negative news followed, and all kinds of live stage broadcasts, including the live broadcast of the 20th anniversary concert of the debut, were spit out by netizens.
In short, Ayumi Hamasaki's position plummeted.
In 2014, she did not qualify for the first time in the Red and White Song Festival for 15 consecutive years, and the reason was simple.
But singer Ayumi Ayumi Hamasaki loves music, and she did not give up on music, not her fans.
In 2017, she confessed to fans again that the semicircular canal in her left ear had completely lost its effect, her right ear was almost deaf, and the kneecap surgery that had been delayed for nearly six years had also been operated on.
She was afraid that she would not be able to sing, afraid that she would never be able to go on the stage again, and Ayumi Hamasaki was a person who lived because of the stage.
The Heisei era is over, but as long as she doesn't quit, the Katsuhime era will never end.
Ayumi Hamasaki has experienced too much right and wrong, and she can be sorry for herself, but only worthy of all the fans.
After all, fans are my all!
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