1. Ami Suzuki is a Japanese recording artist, DJ, and actress from Zama, Kanagawa, Japan.
39 Facts About Ami Suzuki
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However, in 2000, Suzuki faced legal problems with her management company resulting in a controversial blacklisting from the entertainment industry.
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Ami Suzuki attempted to resurrect her career under her own steam with two indie singles before signing to Avex Trax in 2005.
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Ami Suzuki released "Delightful", a dance song that reached No 3 on the Japanese Oricon charts with a style similar to electronic club music, significantly different from her pop idol days.
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Since her appearance in the 2006 film Rainbow Song, Ami Suzuki has gradually made a name for herself in the acting field, starring in various movies, television series, and musicals.
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Ami Suzuki initially preferred athletics to auditions and was reluctant to travel from her home in Kanagawa, but was convinced by a school friend.
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From 13,500 contestants, only five girls were chosen to be in the final round, and 15-year-old Ami Suzuki won the competition supported by 802,157 phone calls from the audience.
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Ami Suzuki later explained her win as being down to her showing her natural-self, as opposed to rehearsing intensely like other contestants.
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The song was used to promote Japanese tourism in the island of Guam, with Ami Suzuki herself starring in the TV commercials.
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The song was well promoted, with Ami Suzuki appearing on covers of magazines like Young Jump and even traveling to Guam to promote the song live on the local version of the international music channel MTV.
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Ami Suzuki signed a deal with the Japanese product Kissmark for advertisements and promotion all around Asia.
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Later that year, Ami Suzuki won various awards including the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist.
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In 1999, Suzuki released her first photo book, titled Ami-Go, which sold around 200,000 copies.
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At the release of her seventh single "Be Together", Ami Suzuki competed with "rival" Ayumi Hamasaki for the first time for the top position in the charts.
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In January 2000, Ami Suzuki released "Don't Need to Say Good Bye" which debuted at number 5.
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Ami Suzuki has said of this first period of her career that she was not free to do what she wanted and only followed what she was told, leaving her feeling "pretty disheartened and down, like there was no future".
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Ami Suzuki had been writing lyrics from an early age and passing them to her manager and producers.
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In 2000 Ami Suzuki's career came to a halt when Eiji Yamada, the President of her production company AG Communication, was convicted on tax evasion charges.
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In 2003, Ami Suzuki finally negotiated an out-of-court agreement with Sony.
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Ami Suzuki released her first studio album in five years, Around the World, on 12 October 2005, with the simultaneous release of a single of the same name.
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On 7 December 2005, Ami Suzuki released her 5th Avex single, Little Crystal.
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On December 31,2005, Ami Suzuki was awarded with the a Gold Prize for Best New Artist at the 47th Japan Record Awards.
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On 8 February 2006, Ami Suzuki released her sixth Avex single, "Fantastic", which was used as third opening theme of the TV anime series Blackjack.
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In late 2006, Ami Suzuki covered two Disney songs, "Beauty and the Beast" and "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", which were at first only available on the Disney Music Store Japan's website starting on December 20.
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In February 2007, Ami Suzuki officially started a new project called "join", in which she would be collaborating with different artists and experimenting with various music styles.
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Ami Suzuki's acting career continued; Suzuki starred in the live action drama Skull Man, and recorded the Japanese-South Korean collaboration drama Under the Magnolia, in which she starred the leading role along with Lee Wan.
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Ami Suzuki was invited for a third time to perform at A-Nation, where she was chosen as the opening act.
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Ami Suzuki released her second "join" album and third Avex studio album, Dolce, on 6 February 2008.
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In December 2007 it was announced that Ami Suzuki would be starring a new TV drama called Oishii Depachika.
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In 2008, Ami Suzuki celebrated her tenth anniversary in the music industry, leaving behind the "join" project and working with producer Yasutaka Nakata.
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Ami Suzuki recorded a song called "Kiss Kiss Kiss", a cover of a song by Ananda Project which appeared on the House Nation compilation called Aquamarine released on 5 August and was later released as her 29th single on 28 October 2009.
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Ami Suzuki provided vocals for them in the song "Living in the Castle", which appeared on the compilation House Nation 3rd Anniversary.
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In July 2010, Ami Suzuki released Blooming, her first compilation album as a DJ.
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In March 2011, after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Suzuki joined Gackt's charity campaign "Show Your Heart" for collecting money for the victims.
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In October 2011, it was announced that Ami Suzuki would be releasing her first Avex greatest hits album on 7 December.
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The album, titled Ami Suzuki Selection, included most of her singles released under the Avex label, as well as new versions of various hit singles from the Sony era produced by Tetsuya Komuro, and her indie single "Tsuyoi Kizuna".
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Ami Suzuki took courses and started to work as food analyst, starting to become involved in the process of food production and dinner organizations for her events.
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In December 2012, it was announced that Ami Suzuki would be releasing a new song, "Snow Ring", which would be used as theme song for the smartphone game Makina x Dolls.
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On 2 June 2014, it was announced that Ami Suzuki would be releasing a new single titled "Graduation", produced by Tetsuya Komuro.