Do we know his face? I wonder if he has been with her in HK and during her Asia tour.

This is too sad.

i posted his pic before,taken from his Twitter ,

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7...nvccaaibua.jpg

and this one with Natsuki, i remember seeing on twitter he was with Natsuki helping at the booth at HLS Tour, took this from Jorge's tweet

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1461/numacci.jpg

the left is Numacci

Ohh thank you for those :)

^

you are welcome. if shes going to US i hope she will make on time for next concert in Nagoya, she must be heartbroken then

it's kind of increadible how people who work together with these celebrities slowly become their family. i know GACKT has a song written for his driver, after he got into an actident that was fatal. i don't quite hear the "family" description from non-asian celebs, while in asia it's pretty usual. It should be really heartwarming to work for these people, to have this kind of support and friendship. It's nice how they care about those they work with. ♥

does anyone know anything what kind of illness was it?

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yep i see non-asians take it a more to professional relationship while asians tend to become close and caring for each other easily more,

maybe Ayu will write in TA later, curious about the cause of the death too

my God, this is just too sad :(

Wow, just read Misa-chan's twitter translations. This is from all the way back in February.

I had to re-read the lyrics to SAKURA for this. It sounds very fitting. I guess they knew back then too?

She was just in LA, and is possibly in Hawaii now. He was her driver in Japan though, I think he died there not here in the U.S.

from the recent magazine interview, Ayu said that she wrote SAKURA after she had a conversation with a friend in a restaurant/bar, so Numacci might this friend? the lyrics is inspired from the friend's story. SAKURA is more like a person name

from Misa chan's translation http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117371

:weep

Omg this is so sad
I read the tweet translation posted and it breaks my heart :(

now i wanna read SAKURA again,
i feel that the next tours, ayu'll be in tears most of the time, specially SAKURA.
so, Numacchi-san had been battling with the illness from long time ago, it seems?

i think SAKURA is gonna be a very sad song for Ayu to sing hereafter..

i hope someone can record the next SAKURA performance in Nagoya, maybe she'll have hard time singing it, more sobbing >_>

but i just dont dunerstand the "I" in the lyrics refers to someone else and not Ayu herself?

the news on Yahoo chinese site

http://tw.omg.yahoo.com/news/%E6%BF%...070327046.html

the google translation is scary

O.o

The translation is so messy and the wording is so scary :|
And 'calamity' is such a strong and heavy word

Nonetheless SAKURA would probably tear her up in next performances like everyone said, it even seem to coincide JEWEL ~ HEAVEN ~ SAKURA ~ ever free, it's life and death there

They're just saying how Ayu doesn't care about her friend's death, so that she only tweeted about it as he's dying :no

thats what ive been thinking bout the performance too, its more meaningful now :thud

duh, this chinese news always didnt do any justice for her, didnt know shes going to bring him home, thats is so kind and sweet of her

She didn't say she was going to bring him home, that I saw. He died in Japan, she was probably still in LA when he died. She mentioned she wish they had said more when she left 5 days before, which was when she and Natsuki flew to LA and met with Christophe again.