I'm giving a speech on Ayu, any ideas?
 

Hi, I'm giving a speech on ayumi hamasaki: who she is, and her influence on Japan. I need all the information I can receive about her. I am typing my outline currently and I need to know what her life was like, basically, in chronological order.

So, she was born in Fukouka Prefecture, Right? and her father left her, and she grew up in a liberal home with her mother and grandmother, am I right?

The second part is Ayumi Hamasaki as a product, and how successful she has been. I need a complete list of awards or recognitions, and her bestselling albums and singles, and anything else interesting.

I need more information obviously, so anything would be appreciated.

It's due Nov. 6th ... :) lol

Thanks a ton you guys
~(miss)understood


BTW: If you have a really amazing 1-3 minute clip of ayumi (preferably with english subtitles), please send it to me in ".mpg" format. This is going to be shown to a lot of people, so, make sure its a good performance/movie!! :luv2 :luv2

I'm sure Ayumi's Wikipedia page can help you with the sales and awards.
I hope you can impress everyone with your speech, I did a writing piece on her and got maximum points. :)

EDIT: This translation of a "ROCKIN' ON JAPAN" interview has very valuable information as well. Link.

Thanks especially for the Interview, this is a huge help. Thanks so much! :D

The Time article might be of some help to you... :)
http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/ayumi_hamasaki/

criminal already gave you the link to the interview, but I'd advice you to check out masa's entire site, he got a ton of articles about Ayu.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/morimasa/e-ayu.html

LUCKY U! wish I had a project like that.

Wikipedia, the library-translation thingy here and maybe Yesasia if your looking for release dates.

Hmm, an idea could be that you could (if you had the time/money) make a collage of like all of Ayu's greatest moments. Like print the pictures out and stuff. Perhaps...Or like you suggested an awesome 3-4 minute clip; maybe one of Ayu's greatest performances/PV. Oh and mention that Ayu is a control freak about everything she does and that she is indeed the *undisputed* queen of J-Pop.

Hope everything goes well, update us later on your progress and stuff if you can. I love Ayumi-homework assignments.

What a great subject for a speach you have.When i first became an Ayumi fan i got all my info from this forum and from Wikipedia.

wow..that's so nice..
what subject do you learn so there is something like this?

COOL~! Thnx for telling the link.

hehe i think that its good to mention that she nearly lost her hearing cos of her work. den her audience will be WOW.

Anyone got stats on her Best Jeanist, Japan Gold Disk and Nail Queen awards?

good luck...i have been doing it before...
be sure to talk about number!!! her sales will amaze many people...

Does anyone know if she dropped out of high school?
:?

She did, here's a thread with more info about it:
http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48556

My outline is moving along so nicely, and this is surely going to impress my entire class. I'm so excited :)

well, any useful info i could have offered has already been given, but good luck! i hope it goes well. :yes

It's really good that you feel confident about it, tell us about how it was received when you've presented it :).

Well I did a speech on Ayumi once and I made sure to include all her amazing accomplishments so that everyone I knew could see how good she really is xD