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Utada Hikaru

Hikaru Utada (born January 19, 1983 in Manhattan, New York) is a Japanese-American singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. They are known by their stage name Utada in the United States and Europe. Since the release of their Japanese debut album First Love, which went on to become the best-selling album in Oricon history, Utada has had three of their Japanese studio albums in the list of Top 10 best-selling albums ever in Japan (number 1, 4, 8) and six of their albums (including one English-language and one compilation) charting within the 275 Best-Selling Japanese albums list.