Tamaki Nami

Tamaki Nami promoting "PARADISE" (2012)

Tamaki Nami (玉置成実) is a Japanese pop singer currently under TEICHIKU ENTERTAINMENT, INC.. She was chosen the winner from over 5,000 contestants in a star search organized by Sony Music Entertainment. She made her debut at the age of 15 with the single "Believe" through Sony. In late 2008, she transferred labels to Universal Music Japan, releasing "GIVE ME UP" in March of 2009. In December of 2011, she switched labels to Imperial Records and will release her 21st single, "LADY MIND", in 2012.

Profile

• Name: Tamaki Nami (玉置成実)
• Birthday: June 1st, 1988
• Blood Type: O
• Birth Place: Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
• Favorite Artists: Janet Jackson, Madonna, Britney Spears
• Favorite Food: Nikujaga (Meat and Potato Stew)
• Least Favourite Food: Eel, Eggplant, Kikurage Mushrooms
• Favortite Color: Red
• Favorite Fashion: Interested in fashion, but no specific brands.
• Favorite Anime: Urusei Yatsura
• Favorite American Drama: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Most Desired Item: A Piano
• Most Desired Place To Visit: Disneyland in Los Angeles, California
• Dreams & Goals: To make people happy and always smiling, not only for the people in Japan, but for everyone around the world, and to always improve.

Biography

Tamaki promoting "Brightdown" (2007)

Tamaki Nami with KWANGSOO, JIHYUK, and GEONIL (from Choshinsei) promoting "Missing You ~Time To Love~" (2011)

Between the years 2001 and 2002, Tamaki Nami was just a contestant in a star search competition organized by Sony Music Entertainment. She eventually won by singing the Destiny's Child's song "Survivor" at the contest finale in 2002 at Zepp Tokyo. Her career rose to stardom with her debut single "Believe", which was released on April 23rd, 2003 when she was only 15 years old. The titular song was used as an opening theme song for the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. It reached #5 on the Oricon weekly charts, where it charted for 24 weeks and sold 194,167 copies.

In 2008, after five years of being with Sony Music Entertainment, she transferred labels to Universal Music. Her last Sony release, the remix best of album TAMAKI NAMI REPRODUCT BEST, was simultaneously released with "GIVE ME UP", her first single on the new label. They were released on March 25th, 2009. In 2011, Nami announced that she transferred labels to the TEICHIKU ENTERTAINMENT, INC. sub-label Imperial Records. On January 25th, 2012, she will release her first single with the new label called "LADY MIND". The single is produced by DJ Osawa Shinichi.

Discography

Studio Albums

• [2004.02.25] greeting
• [2005.05.11] Make Progress
• [2006.07.12] Speciality
• [2008.04.23] Don't Stay
• [2010.02.24] STEP
• [2011.02.23] Ready

Best Albums

• [2006.11.29] Graduation ~Singles~ (Singles Best)
• [2009.03.25] TAMAKI NAMI REPRODUCT BEST (Remixes Best)

Singles

• [2003.04.23] Believe
• [2003.05.21] Believe Reproduction ~GUNDAM SEED EDITION~
• [2003.07.24] Realize
• [2003.09.26] Realize Reproduction ~GUNDAM SEED EDITION~
• [2003.11.12] Prayer
• [2004.01.28] Shining Star ☆Wasurenai Kara☆ (Shining Star ☆忘れないから☆; Because I Won't Forget)
• [2004.07.14] Daitan ni Ikimashou ↑Heart&Soul↑ (大胆にいきましょう ↑Heart&Soul↑; Let's Go Boldly)
• [2004.11.11] Reason
• [2005.01.26] Fortune
• [2005.04.06] Heroine
• [2005.11.02] Get Wild
• [2006.03.24] MY WAY / Sunrize
• [2006.05.03] Result
• [2006.06.07] Sanctuary
• [2007.03.14] CROSS SEASON
• [2007.08.29] Brightdown
• [2007.12.26] Winter Ballades
• [2009.03.25] GIVE ME UP
• [2009.07.29] Friends!
• [2009.10.14] Moshimo Negai ga... (もしも願いが...; If My Wish...)
• [2010.02.17] Omoide ni Naru no? (思い出になるの?; Does It Become a Memory?) (nami)
• [2011.01.12] Missing You ~Time To Love~ feat. KWANGSOO, JIHYUK, GEONIL (from Choshinsei)
• [2012.01.25] LADY MIND
• [2012.10.10] PARADISE

Digital Singles

• [2009.02.02] GIVE ME UP
• [2009.04.01] in my life (iTunes Digital Single)
• [2009.06.03] Negai Hoshi (願い星; Wishing Star)
• [2009.09.16] Moshimo Negai ga... (もしも願いが...)
• [2010.05.12] Romantic ga Tomaranai (Romanticが止まらない; Can't Stop the Romance)
• [2010.12.22] Missing You ~Time To Love~ feat. KWANGSOO, JIHYUK, GEONIL (from Choshinsei)
• [2011.12.28] LADY MIND
• [2012.09.04] PARADISE

DVDs

• [2003.11.12] Believe DVD
• [2003.12.17] Realize DVD
• [2004.05.19] greeting DVD
• [2005.07.06] Make Progress DVD
• [2005.10.05] NAMI TAMAKI 2nd CONCERT Make Progress ~road to~
• [2006.08.30] Speciality DVD
• [2007.06.13] NAMI TAMAKI Best CONCERT "My Graduation"
• [2010.02.17] STEP DVD

Other DVDs

• [2006.01.25] HIT STYLE DVD -BRAND NEW CLIPS- (#15 Reason)

Compilations / Other

• [2003.09.26] MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED COMPLETE BEST (#4 Believe, #6 Realize, #11 Believe (FREEDOM G CONTROL MIX), #13 Realize (remix))
• [2003.10.24] JPOP CD (#7 Believe)
• [2004.03.19] popjapan.tv ~SONY Dōng​yáng Wèi​lái Qiǎng Tīng Pán~ (#8 Believe)
• [2004.04.14] THE JAPAN GOLD DISC AWARD 2004 (CD2 #8 Believe)
• [2004.08.04] TEENAGE POP (#7 Shining Star ☆Wasurenai Kara☆)
• [2004.12.16] MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK IV (#14 Believe (GUNDAM SEED Version), #30 Realize (GUNDAM SEED OPENING Ver.))
• [2005.09.28] Diva (#14 Heroine)
• [2005.11.02] MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED DESTINY COMPLETE BEST (#2 Reason, #11 Reason -NYLON Stay Cool Mix-)
• [2006.01.25] HIT STYLE (Disc 2 #10 Reason)

• [2006.01.25] MATCHY TRIBUTE (#4 Blue Jeans Memory)
• [2006.03.08] 14 Princess ~PRINCESS PRINCESS CHILDREN~ (#1 19 GROWING UP -ode to my buddy-)
• [2006.03.14] Anime Nation No.6 (#2 Realize)
• [2006.04.05] The Hit Maker -Tsutsumi Kyohei no Sekai- (Disc 5 #20 Blue Jeans Memory)
• [2006.09.05] THE VERY BEST OF J-POP Vol.3
• [2006.12.20] KIBA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1 (#25 Sanctuary [TV ver.] )
• [2007.08.22] HIME TRANCE 3 (#22 Believe)
• [2007.12.19] D.Gray-man Original Soundtrack 2 (#1 Brightdown (TV size))
• [2007.12.19] LUNA SEA MEMORIAL COVER ALBUM -Re:birth- (#3 STORM)
• [2008.03.26] 39 Anime x Music Collaboration '02-'07 (Disc 1 #3 Believe, #5 Realize, Disc 2 #4 Reason)
• [2008.09.24] D.Gray-man COMPLETE BEST (#4 Brightdown)
• [2009.07.08] Ghibli meets Lovers Reggae (#1 Tonari no Totoro (JAZZIDA GRANDE feat. NAMI TAMAKI))
• [2010.02.24] GUNDAM SONGS 145 (Disc 7 #4 Believe, #6 Realize; Disc 8 #2 Reason, #8 Result)
• [2010.05.12] Takashi Matsumoto ni Sasagu -Kazemachi DNA- (#7 Romantic ga Tomaranai)

Filmography

Movies

• [2007.01.01] Love★Com

Publications

Books / Photobooks

• [2004.03.30] greeting
• [2005.01.26] TN
• [2005.12.22] PIANO COLLECTION
• [2006.03.24] Nami Kore (ナミコレ)
• [2007.03.19] Body & Beauty ~essay & exercise~
• [2011.02.24] Gekkan NEO Nami Tamaki (月刊NEO 玉置成実)

External Links

• Official Websites: Current | Old
• Tamaki Nami @ Imperial Records
• Tamaki Nami @ Universal Music
• Tamaki Nami @ Sony Music Entertainment
• Official Blog