The title says HIP-POP, not hip-hop, or pop.
It refers to the title of one of her albums. Can you people not read?

The Stats:
Japanese name:安室 奈美恵
English name: Namie Amuro
Date of birth: September 20, 1977
Height: 5' 2 " / 158cm
Weight: 88lbs / 40 kg.
Blood Type: O
Measurements: 30":23":33.5" / 75cm:59cm:85cm
Birth Place: Okinawa, Japan
Ethnicity: 75% Japanese, 25% Italian

Biography (excerpted from http://namieamuro.fateback.com/bio.html )

Namie was born in Naha City, Okinawa on September 20th, 1977. Namie's parents divorced when she was only 3, leaving her mother to raise her and her brother and sisters alone.

At the age of 10, Namie discovered Yoshie Hayakasa, the first Okinawa Actors School student to become famous. Full of admiration for Yoshie, Namie decided to follow in Yoshie's footsteps and attended Okinawa Actors School. She walked for 2 hours every day to attend the school, because her family could not spare the money for public transportation.

At 15, Namie along with a group of classmates decided to form a group known as the SUPER MONKEY'S. Their first single "Koi no KYU-TO BI-TO / MISUTA- U.S.A." was a moderate hit debuting at #28 on the charts. The group then decided to relocate themselves from Okinawa to Tokyo, after all, their record label Toshiba EMI was located there.

Once in Tokyo, the group released 2 singles "DANCING JUNK" and "Ai$hite MASUKATTO," but the singles had little success. Once the 4th single, "PARADISE TRAIN," was released, the group changed its name to 'Namie Amuro with SUPER MONKEY'S.'

Once the 5th single, "TRY ME ~Watashi wo Shinjite~," was released, things began to change for the group. The 5th single was a big hit, and instantaneously made the top 10. Because of the song, the group was invited to attend the huge annual show Kouhaku Utagussen.

The 6th and 7th single, "Taiyou no SEASON" and "Stop the music," continued the success of the 5th single, debuting in the top 10 and top 5.

Namie officially went solo in the summer of 1995 after she signed a deal with Avex Trax and began working with the legendary Tetsuya Komuro. The remaining SUPER MONKEY'S were asked to make a new group: Musical Active eXperience a.k.a MAX.

In October of 1995, Namie released her debut solo single, "Body Feels EXIT," which was a huge success debuting at #3 on the charts. Before long, Namie was everywhere. Soon, thousands of fans began to imitate her style of miniskirts, platform boots, and dyed brown hair. They were known as 'Amura'.

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she really likes her heels high

i am still compoletely blown away by her live preformances...i mean, she almost always sings live, and everytime its always perfect, seriously sounds like shes lipsyncing but shes not...plus dancing in those HIGH heels, you gotta give her credit for that...amazing entertainer, love her new album to death.

Do you have any more information about her divorce(?) and child?

I like Utada Hikaru better.

her divorce let's see....rumor has it that sam was cheating on her and spending all her money....and that sam's parents didn't like her because she was an entertainer (he comes from a family of doctors and they like own a freaking hospital) and whenver namie got into arguments with her in-laws sam wouldn't side with her....but i believe wat was released was that she asked him if she could work more (like release more stuff...because she was releasing things really really slowly) and he said no...then she asked for divorce...sam originally had custody of the child...but they would both raise haruto because they both live in the same apartment complex...but just a few months ago namie got back custody of haruto because she wanted to be clear on who's raising him...seems as though namie was raising haruto all along and that she didn't abandon her son like some people think...that's basically it

I actually got to meet her in person for about a minute.

Nice woman.

Very cool

O_O are you really serious??? I would do anything to meet her... ok- i exaggerated, but thats cool that you got to meet her ^^

omg!!!...r u serious?! when?! how?...i would love to meet her in person..and see her in concert....i love namie so much!!!

I know that she does sing at the Anime conventions in Texas sometimes. Her and Koda Kumi.

no...she doesn't...the only time she's ever performed in america was for her genius 2000 tour and that was in hawaii

Are you sure? I'm almost sure she preformed at A-kon or something a while back.

i am positive...i think maybe ur mistaking her with max? i think they performed at some anime thing

yays! another namie fan. wanna be my best friend? lols. jk.

I'm a big fan of Anime Namie. She's very awesome. Very techno =)

Great looking girl and she has a great voice.

nice post tami. I could use these info and pics for her AF bio heh.

I think she's a good mom, though she's a 'full-time' entertainer.

if you guys want more pix i have some and also, if you want an even better bio visit AMX that website basically summarized the bio he wrote for his page...his is more detailed

I think Namie is SUPER pretty and can sing very well!

I really enjoy some of her songs such as 'I Love You', 'Ups and Downs', 'No' and so on. However, i don't find her very talented since her singing isn't particularly good as she hardly seems to put in any energy and can barely hit any notes (probably why all her songs are so easy to sing). I was also kind of disappointed to know that she doesn't compose any of her own songs yet despite that, her music is VERY catchy and i think her newest album is one of her best. It's also great to know that she's catching up in the music industry once again.

I love Namie Amuro! Thanks for making this post my Tami queen

hi aLL..
i'm namie big fans from indonesia

namie's tour that's starting in like a week is called "space of hip pop"...cannot wait to see pics from her tour..it's gonna be hard to top the so crazy tour

Have you guys heard of "Violet Sauce"? I'm not sure if it's a new or old song, but it's greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat. You can DL it by clicking on the link in my sig.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amuro_Namie

I've always liked her. Very pretty.

WOW! O__O!

i LOVE the song 'want me want me'

Shes so hot, I love her song "Wishing on the same star" and some other hits like the one that debut on Inuyasha "Come"

Edit: Nevermind, I guess I should have read the first post instead of looking at all the pics haha :p

It says it in the first post. 25% Italian

I am still completely blown away by Gack's live performances...I mean, he always sings live, and everytime its always perfect, it seriously sounds like he's lipsyncing but he's not...plus the awesome and powerful choreographed dances, moves he does while singing with all his heart his very own and very great rock-, upbeat song and ballads. You gotta give him credit for that...amazing entertainer and artist, love all of his albums to death.


Namie is a great entertainer, but I don't always have the mood to listen to rnb and hiphopmusic, but her dance, popmusic is great, like body feels exit and say the word, and such.
Her dances are cool, but not that original.

i thought the queen of pop was ayumi hamasaki..

lilomui u must not have watched enough of her performances then cos she goes offtune alot.....unless she has loud backing vocals in the background
she never relli looks like shes in2 her dancing/performance either

Namies White Light is better than Violet Sauce, but violet sauce is good too

Just started to like namie starting from her wishing on the same star single

I like her STYLE album more... Queen of Hip-Pop is still good nonetheless

It says Hip-pop. It's a play on her album title, "Queen of Hip-pop"

I don't really know much about her but a few years ago I downloaded her "Love 2000" song and just got the desire to hear it again tonight.lol Sooo I googled her name/song and it lead me to this board.
Seeing how she and Utada are the only Japanese singers I know... Amuro the queen of J-pop to me.lol
Had no idea she this hott though................

LOL she doesn't look hip-hop to me. Does hip-hop in Japan, mean Pop??

dude it's "HIP-POP" not hip hop 2

wow i did not know she was 25% Italian
the more you know!

......Mmm why lie? That's bull $hit. I know it. And besides who do you think would believe you? And yes Utada Hikaru kicks way more @$$!





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Agreed!





.......................................That's pretty funny to tell you the truth. Anyways how old are all of you?




Addicted I shall call you.





WOOT INUYASHA KICKS @$$!!!





That's Hamasaki Ayumi in that pic I know for sure





DUH!

I think she's cute. She looks like one of those 60's chicks

Holy $hit she's 29 :O that's weeeeiirrddd




Yeah it is Hamasaki Ayumi, Namie amuro isn't close to the queen of pop like Hamasaki hell no.

Her song "Come" is pretty good. It's one of the ending theme songs in Inuyasha. I think I like it because I can understand so much of it though lol

i think she's very pretty, i tried listening to her music, but i didn't like her style very much

XD I know isn't she great!

UTADA IS THE BEST OF THE BEST... NO ONE CAN GET PASS HER.

Namie is the queen of Hip Hop whereas Ayumi is the queen of pop.

i <3 her. i don't listen to a lot of her music but whenever i do it's okay.

want me, wante me was such a cute song. lol.

A sexy songs: My word.

i have all her freakng songs, including the concerts