Yoshioka Yui born March 26, 1987, grew up in a single parent family and so does not have any memory of her father.she dropped out of high school and seriously began studying songwriting and guitar at a juku in her hometown of Fukuoka.Aspiring to become a professional, she carried her guitar around and sang at the entrance of Tenjin station in Fukuoka. Doing these street performances helped Yui to eventually overcome her shyness.
She does remember always being close to music, be it from her mother’s car stereo or the radio, she would remember the tunes and sing along. By the time she was in elementary school she thought she would like to become a singer.Her professional career began in March 2004 when at the recommendation of her juku instructors she applied for an audition hosted by Sony Music Japan.
Despite the audition rule that a participant could only sing two songs, Yui sang three, with all of the judges gave her the highest score possible and causing a fierce scramble among record labels to sign her.She first sang “Why Me” (a song later included in her major label debut single), followed by “It’s Happy Line” and “I Know”.
Rain’s June 25, 1982 success in the United States is limited. His two day concert,”Rainy Day New York” was marketed and promoted by the Asian concert production company Rainstone Live. Tickets were sold out within a matter of days.Time magazine noted that Rain may collaborate in the future with Diddy. This came after reviewing Rain’s performances in Madison Square Garden in February 2006. In 2007, several of Rain’s U.S. concerts were cancelled due to safety reasons and possible low ticket sales and legal issues.
Special guests who made stage appearances at the concert included American pop singer JoJo, R&B singer Omarion, and hip-hop mogul Diddy.Rain was featured in a song by Omarion, who used to be the vocalist of the popular hip-hop group, B2K, and had starred in the movie, You Got Served. When Rain’s first movie, I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK, finished filming in early July 2006, he departed for the U.S. to discuss the possibility of singing the duet with Omarion, and to meet with the organizers of his Asian Tour.
In 2007, Rain made it to People’s Most Beautiful People list for the first time, in its “First-Time Beauties 2007″ section.In a press release, Rain stated that he was honored to be on the list, and also noted that it will be a great boost to his efforts to raise his public awareness in the United States.Also in 2007, Rain topped Time’s open online poll. He beat Stephen Colbert by 100,000 votes Colbert jokingly retaliated by producing a parody of Rain’s music video for “Ways to Avoid the Sun” called “He’s Singin’ In Korean”.
Joey Yeung was born on June 16,1980.She is a cantotop and a dance-pop.Ambassador Joey was selected to be Hong Kong’s ambassador of “30 Hour Famine”, which is organized by the World Vision. She visited Kenya in March 2007, and shared many of her thoughts about this trip on her blog and on radio interviews.Joey held her sixth concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum during the beginning of 2008.
Joey performed a number of dance numbers as well as her famous ballads. The Power Medley, which was a 20-minute intense dance medley of her fast songs, was especially well received. The concert spanned over 10 days, proving her popularity as Hong Kong’s most popular female singer.By this time her albums sales had surpassed 5 million worldwide, an impressive feat as the average Cantopop album only sell around 100,000 copies.
2009 marks the 10th anniversary of Joey’s singing career. To celebrate the occasion, Joey and her company are planning to release three albums, a documentary, as well as a mini concert.The compilation will include one new track, as well as rearranged and re-recorded versions of ten of her past hits, one for each year since her debut. The album will be released as a box-set, and will include the documentary that was mentioned before. Her 10th year anniversary mini-concert will be called “Perfect Ten Live”.
