28 Facts About Rina Sawayama

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Rina Sawayama is a British-Japanese singer, actress and model.

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Rina Sawayama is known for her musical versatility and has been labelled a "musical chameleon".

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Outside her music career, Rina Sawayama modelled for several fashion campaigns and made her film acting debut in the action film John Wick: Chapter 4.

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Rina Sawayama was born on 16 August 1990 in Niigata, Japan.

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Rina Sawayama lived there until age five when her family decided to move to London, where she was raised and currently resides.

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Rina Sawayama holds an indefinite leave to remain visa in the UK.

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Rina Sawayama attended Magdalene College, Cambridge where she studied politics, psychology and sociology.

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Rina Sawayama graduated from the university with a degree in political science.

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Rina Sawayama began her solo career in February 2013, with the single "Sleeping in Waking", produced by Justin "Hoost" Tailor.

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Rina Sawayama would later reveal in a 2021 Billboard interview that the reason she used only her first name is because her last name was "an inconvenience".

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Sawayama was then an unsigned artist, and Rina was released independently; she confirmed on Twitter that she worked for two to three years to save money to release the EP.

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The Guardian deemed the EP "bracing and modern", stating that Rina Sawayama had proven "she can shepherd pop into the future, too".

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In 2018, Rina Sawayama released the single "Valentine" on Valentine's Day.

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Rina Sawayama embarked on her Ordinary Superstar Tour across the UK, the US and Canada in late 2018.

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In late July 2020, Rina Sawayama made a public tweet about her ineligibility to be nominated for major British music awards, such as the Mercury Prize and BRIT Awards, due to the fact that she does not hold British citizenship.

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On 26 October 2020, Rina Sawayama made her television debut performing the song "XS" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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Rina Sawayama contributed a cover of the Metallica song "Enter Sandman" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021.

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On 3 September 2021, a remix version of Lady Gaga's "Free Woman" by Clarence Clarity and Rina Sawayama appeared on Gaga's remix album Dawn of Chromatica.

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Rina Sawayama started working on her second studio album in 2021.

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Rina Sawayama featured on the single "Beg for You" by Charli XCX, released on 27 January 2022 and later on "Follow Me" by Brazilian drag queen Pabllo Vittar, released on 31 March of the same year.

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On 16 May, Rina Sawayama announced that her second studio album Hold the Girl would be released on 16 September 2022.

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Rina Sawayama made her film acting debut in the fourth installment in the John Wick film series.

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Rina Sawayama released the song "An Eye for An Eye", which appears in the film.

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Rina Sawayama has starred in campaigns for Jourdan Dunn's Missguided, and wrote and performed an original track titled "Play on Me" for Nicola Formichetti's MAC x Nicopanda.

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In 2016, Rina Sawayama collaborated with Taiwanese visual artist, John Yuyi, on a visual series critiquing Asian, including Japanese, beauty standards.

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In 2017, Rina Sawayama was ranked in The Guardians "18 for '18" list as well as Dazeds "100 people shaping culture in 2017" list.

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Rina Sawayama has mentioned Madonna as a "huge inspiration" to her.

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In May 2020, Rina Sawayama revealed that she was doing an online course at the University of Oxford.