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Yuki Koyanagi

Yuki Koyanagi (小柳 ゆき, Koyanagi Yuki?, born January 26, 1982 in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan), is a Japanese pop singer. Her height is 154cm, and her blood type is 'B'. She released her first single, 'Anata no kisu o kazoemashô - You Were Mine' on September 15, 1999. This song was a huge hit in Japan and made the 17-year-old a sensation overnight. Her second album 'EXPANSION', sold over 1.3 million copies. She has done several albums (in English) of cover songs, including disco and movie standards. After a break of several years, her latest album 'Sunrise' was released in March 2007.

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W

1)W (Double You) was a Japanese pop duo formed for Ai Kago (加護亜依) and Nozomi Tsuji (辻希美), graduated members of the group Morning Musume (モーニング娘。) when they graduated in 2004. They started off by covering older Japanese pop hits from as far back as the 50s. After their first cover album, they began to release original songs and eventually a second album. In early 2006, the group was put on hiatus due to Kago's involvement in an underage smoking scandal.

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hitomi

There are three artists going under the name of 'Hitomi': 1) hitomi (古谷仁美 Furuya Hitomi), born January 26, 1976, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record label owner and executive. In addition to having consistently been one of the most popular and successful musicians in Japan since her debut in 1994, hitomi is also acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in Japanese pop culture. Along with Utada Hikaru and Hamasaki Ayumi...

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Aimee B

There are 2 artists with the name "Aimee B": 1) Aimee Blackschleger is a Tokyo-based English singer known for her vocals in Final Fantasy, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, and Konami's BEMANI games. 2) Aimee B is a trance producer from the UK/Sweden. "Entertain, dont let crap get in the way, & Trance Out!" has been Aimee's motto since forever, however the last bit 'trance out' has really only been a part of what she has liked to say since 1999 when she descovered trance.

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Dream

There is more than one group with this name: 1) dream/DRM/Dream is a Japanese girl-group
2) Dream was an American pop girl-group formed by Diddy from 1998–2003
3) A Swedish band. (Melodic Hard Rock)
4) A Norwegian psychedelic band from sixties.
5) American R&B artist Terius Youngdell Nash
6) UK Dubstep artist 1) Dream, formerly called DRM, is an all-female J-pop chorus group. In May 1999, the Japanese record company Avex Trax held a contest in the hopes of looking for new talent.

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GACKT

GACKT (神威楽斗, Kamui Gakuto, born July 4, 1973) is a singer, songwriter, model, designer, actor, voice actor, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, violin, drums, bass, trumpet, tuba, french horn, trombone, and so on...) famous in Japan. Since the launch of his solo career, he has gained an even greater fandom and notoriety than he had while working as the vocalist of the iconic visual kei band MALICE MIZER, and has been extremely successful.

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