Ayako Mori, known professionally as Salyu is a Japanese singer, produced by Takeshi Kobayashi.
17 Facts About Salyu
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Salyu debuted in 2000 as the fictional singer Lily Chou-Chou for the film All About Lily Chou-Chou, and later debuted as a solo artist in 2004.
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Salyu learnt piano from a young age, however abruptly stopped these lessons in junior high school.
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In 1998, while attending high school in outer Tokyo, Salyu was inspired to become a singer after watching a friend performing at a live house.
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Salyu auditioned in high school for a Sony musician audition and was accepted, later attending a Sony music training facility.
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Salyu gave her the stage name Salyu, which he chose as it was similar to the French greeting salut.
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Salyu began to perform concerts as a solo artist, performing on average once every two months due to her lack of self-confidence in her live performance skills.
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Two days later, Salyu performed her first one-man live, at the Shibuya Club Quattro.
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In 2006, Salyu reached a much greater audience through the Bank Band charity single "To U," in which she was a featured vocalist.
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In late 2008, Salyu released her first greatest hits album, Merkmal, that marked 10 years since meeting Kobayashi.
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In 2010, Salyu released her third studio album, Maiden Voyage, which was her first self-produced album.
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Salyu originally considered herself more of a vocalist as opposed to a musician, and early on in her career held a stance that she would be a singer who did not write her own material.
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Salyu did not believe her compositions would be the best quality.
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Salyu was encouraged through much of her career by other musicians to try to write her own music, however she mostly ignored the suggestions, until a musician told her it would let her understand her fellow musicians better.
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Salyu began branching into musicians other than Kobayashi in 2006, when musicians Yo Hitoto and Sarasa Ifu wrote lyrics to the songs on her "Tower" single.
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Salyu's older brother, Daisuke Mori was a former professional rugby union player, for the Toshiba Brave Lupus team.
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Salyu announced that she had given birth to her first child, a daughter, on May 6,2024.