Anna Tsuchiya

Anna Tsuchiya has packed much into her short profession since she first started modeling in her teenagers in the late ’90s. She’s appeared popular shows and tv advertisements and performed like a stage celebrity, while also locating time to get a recording profession. She did very much to confound her picture like a pop idol by starring like a foul-mouthed, leather-clad yakuza biker young lady in the strike movie Kamikaze Women. Tsuchiya obtained her first TOP strike with her third solitary, “Rose,” the starting theme song towards the anime tv series Nana, in 2006. Created in Tokyo on March 11, 1984, to a Japanese mom and American dad, Anna Tsuchiya didn’t have to wait around miss her intro to the showbiz globe, getting her 1st break at age group 14 modeling for japan teen style journal Seventeen in 1998. This break resulted in appearances on tv and her getting the 1st Japanese model to model for the denims brand Edwin. Her account grew up when she starred in Tetsuya Nakashima’s award-winning 2004 film Kamikaze Women, alongside another idol, Kyoko Fukada. Tsuchiya’s music profession started in 2002 as half from the rock and roll duo Spin Aqua. The group gained a record cope with P-Vine, but quickly disbanded without producing an impact, enabling Tsuchiya to go after a solo profession. The six-track mini-album Flavor My Defeat, released in 2005 over the Avex Trax “indie” imprint Mad Pray, highlighted Tsuchiya over the cover in her quality panda-eye dark mascara, but her appear was even more sweet-sucking gothic vamp than Dusty Springfield’s gal nearby. Musically, the record was all refined pop-metal riffing and power ballads with obligatory soaring string agreements. An record of remixes premiered in early 2006, offering reworkings by reputed house companies Shinichi Osawa (of Mondo Grosso) and Yukihiro Fukutomi, amongst others. On her behalf debut full-length, Remove Me? (2006), Tsuchiya continuing to cultivate the edgy picture that had initial started with her appearance in Kamikaze Young ladies. The record peaked at amount 11 in the Oricon graphs and highlighted guest transforms from AN IDEAL Group drummer Josh Freese and program players who acquired previously caused Garbage and Avril Lavigne. A lot of the lyrics had been in British and penned by Tsuchiya. The record also induced panel the hard rockin’ tempo portion of Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum (Weapons N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver) on “Rose,” that was utilized as the starting theme to Nana, predicated on a favorite manga group of the same name. “Rose” reached quantity six for the Oricon graph, and Tsuchiya capitalized on its achievement by carrying out a sold-out tour of Japan’s golf club venues and showing up at among Japan’s biggest summer season rock and roll festivals, Summer season Sonic. The recording had not been without its brighter, poppier occasions, though, encapsulated from the sprightly reworking of Cyndi Lauper’s mature pop strike “True Colours.” Also in summer season 2006, Tsuchiya performed nine tracks (and modeled) within the Japanese style, music, and anime display Tokyo Summer season Collection in Paris, leading some thrilled parts of the French press to dub Tsuchiya “japan Madonna.” Despite a growth in her musical profile, Tsuchiya held her submit performing when she got for the tone of voice of Lindsay Lohan’s personality in the Japanese-language edition from the Disney film Herbie Completely Loaded.