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generasia:Featured article for 2009 week 27
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ayaka
ayaka (絢香) is a Japanese pop singer under Warner Music Japan. She made her major debut in 2006 with the ballad I believe, which was used as the drama Rondo's theme song. This single reached #3, making it the highest debut single rank reached by a female singer-songwriter since Utada Hikaru's "Automatic / Time Will Tell" in 1998. Her album First Message also came in #1 on the World Charts.
In April 2009, ayaka revealed that she has been diagnosed with graves' disease and she has married popular Japanese actor Mizushima Hiro on February 22, 2009. ayaka will release her last single "Minna Sora no Shita" on July 8, 2009 before taking a hiatus to focus on her health and her marriage.