Introducing ~Fukuhara Miho~

[hayasaki]

I was watching TV this morning and saw this very interesting artist

Fukuhara Miho

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Birthday: June 19, 1987
Birth Place: Sapporo, Hokkaido
Height: 165cm
Blood Type: O
Favourite Movies: Blade, The Blues Brothers, The Fast and the Furious, Hardball, The Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars
Favourite Musical Artists: 2pac, The Beatles, Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Alicia Keys, B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, Santana, Angie Stone, Joss Stone, The Temptations, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder


Her parents enjoyed music, so from a young age she was always surrounded by a wide array of styles of music (especially Western music). In December 2002, by chance she was featured on a Hokkaido-based TV karaoke competition and sung a cover of Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You, and was recognised by the show's judges for her talent.

In May 2006, after finishing high-school, she debuted as an indies artist on the Hokkaido-based Yumechika Records label with the cover single, The Roots (the leading song from the single was a cover of Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke). The single charted in at #3 on the Sapporo HMV store's internal charts. When holding in-store lives, she would regularly sell over 100 copies per live. Following this up in October, she released a mini-album, Step☆Out EP, featuring original songs as well as covers. Totalled together, these two releases sold over 6,000 copies.

Fukuhara in 2007 was signed to Sony records, and prior to her debut released a cover of Céline Dion's Because You Loved Me on the compilation album TRIBUTE TO CELINE DION. Her debut single, CHANGE, is planned to be released in April 2008.

Fukuhara has been praised by such artists as Corrine Bailey Rae and GEO from Sweetbox.

official Website

Song From her Previous Indie Album
(MF) Believe My Way

PV of her Debut Single under Sony
Change>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpF_qHjzBg4

If you like powerful voices, you should give her a try

[~Matt~]

what's her style like? it seems she's not the typical trashy newcomer... o_o

[hayasaki]

hmm...Soul. But she really has a great vocal ability... Sounds like Cristina Aguillera ~Japanese Version~ LOL...

[AyuGAME]

i will give it a try

[happiholic★]

Beautiful voice! She does sound like X-Tina!

[hayasaki]

yeah...that's one of the reasons why i got interested to her...XD
i also loooooooove X-tina... and such a voice is what my ears want to hear often times...LOL

Here's the PV of Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpF_qHjzBg4

[Foxxy_Fuyumi]

After CHANGE she will release a new single =D
Fukuhara Miho will be returning in the summer with her second major single, ひまわり (Himawari), to be released on 2008.7.16.

[hayasaki]

yey! Oh my...thanks for the info. =)

[Foxxy_Fuyumi]

Tracklist
01 ひまわり (Himawari)
02 Everybody Needs Someone
03 No Warning
04 ひまわり-instrumental-

[Nanako]

The himawari PV has aired. You can watch it here.

It's a really sad PV-_- I cried when I saw it. The song is really good.

[Beauty4123]

i just watched it now. really nice song. sad PV.

[GRACE]

I LOVE the song, and I LOVE the PV. It was so sad ;_;...

[KuroixShiroi_Namida]

I love her!!!! Himawari is beautiful!

[jiarongisme]

HER VOICE IS GREAT! I'm hooked on Himawari and the PV is really sad.

[emi♡]

She has the best voice I've heard in a long time of trying out new Japanese Singers.

She's gorgeous and absolutely amazing...She's going in my next set lol.

[jiarongisme]

I'm so totally gonna make a set using her pics too! Anyone has HQ Himawari screencaps? XD

[Beauty4123]

himawari @ HEYx3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IbghjbJv4HY

[hayasaki]

thanks for the link. the PV is so heart Breaking. LOL. i love it to death.

[ayu-mix91]

Thanks for the link. I'll watch it now.

EDIT: Her voice is amazing, and I love the song of course! I'll be watching her closely in the near future. =]

EDIT II: I just listened to her song Change and I really like that too. A nice change from ひまわり. =D

[hayasaki]

i wish someone would upload a HQ version of the PV. =(