Ami Onuki | |
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![]() Ami Onuki in 2009 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Ami Onuki |
Born | Machida, Tokyo, Japan | September 18, 1973
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Occupation(s) | Singer |
Years active | 1988–present |
Labels | Sony Japan Music |
Ami Onuki (Japanese: 大貫 亜美, Hepburn: Ōnuki Ami, born September 18, 1973) is a Japanese singer and a member of J-pop group PUFFY, along with Yumi Yoshimura.
Career
[edit]She has co-hosted several Japanese TV shows with the "cool" half of PUFFY, Yumi Yoshimura, including the talk show Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Puffy, part of a morning show called Saku-Saku, and the 2006 series Hi Hi Puffy Bu, in which Ami and Yumi perform one given task each week to comedic effect.
Personal life
[edit]She married Teru, the vocalist of the rock band Glay and announced the birth of their baby girl on her blog in March 2003.[1] On PUFFY's 2007 greatest hits album Hit & Fun, Ami is pictured both on the CD cover and within the CD insert clearly wearing both an engagement and wedding ring on her left ring finger, and she continues to wear her wedding ring in pictures on the PUFFY Staff Diary.[2]
Legacy
[edit]On Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, she is vocally portrayed by Japanese-American actress Janice Kawaye. In the show, her hair is pink and done in the classic odango atama hairstyle famously first worn by Usagi Tsukino from the Sailor Moon media franchise.
Instruments
[edit]Ami can play:
- Guitar
- Drums (PUFFY SPIKE Daisakusen - Owaranai Uta)
- Harmonica (Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi)
- Timpani (Jet Tour '98 - Ai no Shirushi)
- Trumpet (Cosmic*Wonder)
Solo songs
[edit]Ami has sung the listed solo songs:
AmiYumi
[edit]- Usagi Channel (Rabbit Channel)
Solo Solo
[edit]- Onna no ko, Otoko no ko (Girls and Boys)
- Love Depth
- Honey
- That Sweet Smile
- Be Someone Tonight
- Snacks
- Tadaima (I'm Home)
Jet-CD
[edit]- Lemon Kid
Fever*Fever
[edit]- Always Dreamin' About You
The Hit Parade
[edit]- Aishuu Date (NEW YORK CITY NIGHTS)
Spike
[edit]- Destruction Pancake
Splurge
[edit]- Security Blanket
Solo single
[edit]On July 2, 1997, Ami and Yumi each released her own solo single before their original solo album, Solo Solo, released on 1997/08/06.
Track listing
[edit]- "Honey"
- "Tadaima (I'm Home)"
- "Honey (Original Karaoke)"
- "Tadaima (Original Karaoke)"
References
[edit]- ^ "Netscope Amigator". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
- ^ "PUFFY Staff Diary". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
External links
[edit]- Ami Onuki at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Ami Onuki at IMDb
- Home at Epic
- Hit & Run (Japanese management)
- Bar None Records
- Sony Music Artists Inc
- Puffy AmiYumi World