About Takahashi Hitomi
(高橋 瞳, Takahashi Hitomi, born April 8, 1989) is a J-pop singer who's from Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. Hitomi debuted in 2005, and made a successful debut with her single Bokutachi no Yukue, which entered the weekly charts at #1.
Pre-debut
Hitomi Takahashi was born on April 8, 1989. Because of her abnormally large eyes, her parents named her "Hitomi", which means "pupil/eye" in Japanese. By the influence of her father, she grew up listening to his favorite music, which was classic rock such as Eric Clapton and the Beatles.
In 2002, she entered junior-high/middle school. Once entering middle school, Hitomi joined the school softball team, and expressed an interest in becoming an artist's backup dancer. So, every morning she would practice dancing before she went to Kendo practice; she obtained the first level degree in Kendo. Every night after school Hitomi and her friends would gather together and street danc...
About Takahashi Hitomi
(高橋 瞳, Takahashi Hitomi, born April 8, 1989) is a J-pop singer who's from Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. Hitomi debuted in 2005, and made a successful debut with her single Bokutachi no Yukue, which entered the weekly charts at #1.
Pre-debut
Hitomi Takahashi was born on April 8, 1989. Because of her abnormally large eyes, her parents named her "Hitomi", which means "pupil/eye" in Japanese. By the influence of her father, she grew up listening to his favorite music, which was classic rock such as Eric Clapton and the Beatles.
In 2002, she entered junior-high/middle school. Once entering middle school, Hitomi joined the school softball team, and expressed an interest in becoming an artist's backup dancer. So, every morning she would practice dancing before she went to Kendo practice; she obtained the first level degree in Kendo. Every night after school Hitomi and her friends would gather together and street dance.
In the year of 2003, while she was at dance practice, Hitomi's friends encouraged her to try to sing at a local popularity event. Hitomi disliked singing karaoke in front of such a large crowd, but her friends continued to encouraged her to sing, and from that time on the desire to become a singer awoke in her. During her second year in junior-high school, in the middle of the summer of 2003, Hitomi applied for the Sony Music Auditions. For the auditions, she recorded the rock song "Ukifune" by the band GO!GO!7188, but because the deadline was drawing near, she sent in the tape without listening to it. Also, because a change of interest, Hitomi moved from singing dance music to singing rock music.
In 2004, Hitomi was selected as the finalist for the Sony Music SD audition (Vo-che3); 20,000 others had auditioned. She had been worried that because of her height (147 cm), she would be overlooked, but her powerful voice attracted the attention of people while she sang live. The end of 2004 found her being chosen to sing the theme song for "Gundam SEED DESTINY". Recording of her song "Bokutachi no Yukue" began at the end of the year.
