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Yuna Ito Third Album Dream

Yuna Ito's highly anticipated third album "Dream" is coming soon! The album includes the first single from the album, "Miss You," advanced digital download single track, "Imademo Aitaiyo," collaborated single with GAP and MTV, "Koi wa Groovy," and this maybe is the greatest one for anime fans, outro theme to the popular anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam 00," "Trust You." Limited edition includes bonus DVD with music videos of "Ima Demo Aitaiyo. . .," "Trust You," "Koi wa Groovy x 2," and "Miss You" and making-of footage.

There is one more news, her song will be included in the album "Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Complete Best." As the album title indicates, this compilation contains lots of theme songs sung by popular J-Pop artists such as L'Arc-en-Ciel, the brilliant green, UVERworld, Stereopony, and more. Also check out!






YUNA ITO & HILLARY DUFF PROMOTING
DISNEY MOBILE



Yuna Ito and Hilary Duff showed up on Tokyo’s Shibuya TOKYO FM radio show, “Wonderful World” to promote Disney Mobile. It was the first time the two ever met face to face, and they hit it off quite well. After the show, Yuna took HIlary on a shopping spree as well as a more traditional tour of the Kyoto temples.


Born :September 20, 1983 in Los Angeles, California
Origin: Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States
Genre: Japanese Pop
Occupation: Singer, actress
Years active: 2005-present
Label: Sony Music Japan



Early Years of life

Ito was born to a Japanese father and a Korean American mother in Los Angeles, California. Three months later, she and her family moved to Hawaii, United States, where she remained until the start of her singing career in Japan. She has one sibling, a younger brother named John. She graduated from McKinley High School in 2001. When Ito was little, she used to sing to songs of both Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson and dream of becoming a singer. She has participated in Cho PD's song "(When I Need To) Somebody" in 2004 before she debuted in Japan. She sings in Korean and English in this song..



History

In early 2005, Ito auditioned and was chosen for the role of charismatic vocalist Reira Serizawa in the feature film adaptation of Ai Yazawa's manga series Nana. She also subsequently performed a theme song to the movie, "Endless Story", while debuting under the billing "Reira starring Yuna Ito" and reaching no. 2 on Oricon's Japanese single rankings. As the singer and the actress picked to play Reira Serizawa, Ito's identity was kept a secret until the movie's release.

From October 4, 2005 until March 28, 2006, Yuna was moderator of her own radio show, Journey, that aired on Tokyo's InterFM radio station. It was called off because Ito was too busy promoting her songs with television performances and interviews therefore, didn't have enough time to record and moderate the show. In an interview she stated that it was "a weird feeling leaving the radio staff" and that "she would love to have a radio show someday again" hence she "loves to connect with her fans!!!

Yuna Ito won the 38th National Song Grand Prix (第38回日本有線大賞) through winning the majority of the people’s vote. After performing ENDLESS STORY first, she later received her award. Yuna said that she was so happy that she didn’t know what to say, but that she’s gotten there because of all the loyal fans that support her and she thanks them from the bottom of her heart.

Yuna’s song 「losin’」 , inspired by the American TV Series “LOST” was included in Yuna’s 5th single.


Yuna’s fourth single went on sale on August 9th 2006. This single was a limited edition CD and is part of a two month campaign, with another single on the way in September. The first of the two singles was a hot summer song and the second one was a cool autumn song.

The single included the Nancy Sinatra cover song “These Boots Are Made For Walking” that is being using as a Daihatsu CM song.


Precious came in on the 4th place after Arashi, Namie Amuro and UVERworld, and above Nr.1 ORANGE RANGE when it came out. Yuna’s “Precious” single took third place with 38.583 sales, already topping the sales of her second single “Faith/Pureyes” once it got debuted. Yuna’s single and theme song of the movie “LIMIT OF LOVE Umizaru”, Precious, can be heard on the trailer for the movie.

Yuna’s second single, “Faith/Pureyes”, arrived on the charts on the 6th position with a total of 22.969 sales for the first week. She also performed the song on Music Station and Music Fighter.

Sony Music released Yuna's first album, Heart, a CD+DVD compilation, on January 24, 2007. The album debuted at the #1 spot on the Oricon Daily Album chart, after which the album also grabbed #1 on the Oricon Weekly Album chart and United World Weekly Album Chart.The official early sales for Heart were 224,000 copies sold, leaving a gap of 116,000 copies between the first and second place. HEART was considered a great success as it managed to stay on the Oricon Weekly Charts in the top 3 for 4 consecutive weeks.


Ito's 7th single, I'm Here was released on March 14, 2007. It was used as theme song to "Unfair -the movie-" and was coupled with an insert-song "Reason Why." The single had moderate success, not entering the Top 10 at all.

Her 8th single, featuring Micro from the jawaiian band, Def Tech, titled Mahaloha, was released on June 27, 2007. This was also Ito's first Top 5 single since the release of Precious in May of 2006. Ito was also featured on a Céline Dion tribute album, released in September, on which she sang a cover of Dion's song "My Heart Will Go On" and also appeared on Micro's debut album Laid Back.

While Ito performed in 5 venues for her "Yuna Ito 1st Live Tour ~Heart~" Tour in spring, her latest single was entitled Urban Mermaid, released in late October, and was being featured in the new Lux Hair Care commercial around Japan.

Radio Program
From October 4, 2005 until March 28, 2006 Yuna was moderator of her own radio show, Journey, that aired on Tokyo's InterFM radio station. It was called off because Ito was too busy promoting her songs with television performances and interviews therefore, didn't have enough time to record and moderate the show. In an interview she stated that it was "a weird feeling leaving the radio staff" and that "she would love to have a radio show someday again" hence she "loves to connect with her fans". In 2007, Ito will once again host a radio show entitled Heart to Heart that will be broadcasted by JFN.
On February 27, 2008, Yuna did a public live talk show with Hilary Duff on Tokyo FM's radio show entitled Wonderful World. Although she appeared on the radio show, Hilary Duff's main purpose was to promote Disney Mobile, which she did also on the show

A new single titled Anata Ga Iru Kagiri ~A World to Believe In~ was released in Japan on January 16, 2008. The title song of the release featured a duet with Céline Dion. Dion originally released this track on her album Taking Chances in Autumn 2007.

Yuna's sophomore album WISH has hit stores February 20, 2008, in both CD ONLY and CD+DVD portions, if one believes the rumours circulating the net Let's hope this is true!

*credits go to http://nana-nana.net/yuna/*



DVD
1. I'm Here
2. Mahaloha
3. Urban Mermaid
4. あなたがいる限り ～A WORLD TO BELIEVE IN～

*Ending Theme: TIME HOLLOW -奪われた過去を求めて-
**Bonus Track

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*I mainly got all these info from the net....but i am pretty sure they are correct....at least i hope so*

Updated: 18/03/08 -- added mv to the context
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