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Kishimoto Hayami

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Kishimoto Hayami

Kishimoto Hayami is a retired Japanese pop singer and dancer under the GIZA studio label. She debuted in 2003 with the single "MeiQ!?-Meikyuu-MAKE★YOU". The PVs for her songs show off her jazz- and hip-hop influenced dance skills.

Profile

  • Stage Name: Kishimoto Hayami (岸本早未)
  • Nicknames: Hayamin, Haya
  • Real Name: Kishimoto Miwako (岸本美和子)
  • Birthdate: June 25, 1987
  • Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan
  • Blood Type: A
  • Height: 148 cm
  • Favorite Artists: Britney Spears, Christina Milian, Destiny's Child, Lil' Kim, Janet Jackson
  • Favorite Clothing: B-STYLE
  • Favorite Color: Pink

Information

Hayami started dancing while in her fifth year of elementary school at the age of ten. She became interested in it thanks to the influence of her older sister, and wanting to become like Amuro Namie. Soon after she started her dance lessons she started taking voice training lessons to learn how to sing. She took lessons in the jazz, hip-hop, lock, and and house styles of dance, and later mentioned that she liked jazz the best.

Initially, she auditioned with Vision Factory (which was at the time called Rising Productions), which had become known for their successes with Amuro Namie and other artists like DA PUMP. However, this was not as a solo artist, but as a member of a group. She made the cut, but the group disbanded before making a release.

In October 2002 she auditioned at "GIZA studio PRESENTS "DIG STAR"" and won. On her sixteenth birthday she released her debut single, "MeiQ!?-Meikyuu-MAKE★YOU". The song was used as the opening theme for the anime Tantei Gakuen Q. She released her debut album (Meikyuu) less than three months later. Hayami began writing her own lyrics at this time. She wrote one song ("Kioku") for her debut album, and wrote 2 B-sides for each of her singles up until "Dessert Days". Starting with her "Yume Real" single, Hayami has written all of her own lyrics, with the exception of a few on her second album.

Between November of 2003 and November of 2004, she released five singles: "Mienai Story", "Kaze ni Mukai Aruku You ni", "Suteki na Yume Miyou ne", "Dessert Days", and "Yume Real". At the end of November, she released her second full album, JUICY.

After that, her releases became much more inconsistent. She only released one single, ("JUMP!NG↑GO☆LET'S GO⇒") in 2005, and a year later released another single, ("PEACH:LIME//SHAKE"), which was followed by the release of her LOVE DROPS mini-album. A month after the mini-album was released, Hayami came back with the singles "Go! MY HEAVEN" and "See you Darling," the latter of which which was released in February 2007.

She mentioned in her blog entries in early 2008 that she was still writing and recording songs, but there was no announcement or further information on them until a live performance in March of that year. She performed four unreleased songs: "Body ship," "DARK WHITE," "RETURN or RUN," and "DIG WAY." This performance would be the last live performance of her singing career, so the songs were never released officially. She stopped updating her blog, and the end of her contract was later confirmed. She is no longer listed on GIZA Studio's official website, and her official site was eventually deleted.

Later, she was able to confirm via a YouTube video that she had originally been signed to a 5-year contract, and because of decreasing sales, her agency decided not to renew her contract after the time was up.

For a while, she worked as a manager at a clothing store in Osaka, updating a promotional blog for the store assisted by other staff members. She attended Osaka Seikei College and graduated with a Life Design major, and during that time was part of the school's dance circle called V.I.P. She now has a blog and Instagram under her real name, Miwako Kishimoto, where she promotes various fashion design and brands that she works with, along with running a lingerie import business (from countries like the United States into Japan). She will occasionally post karaoke videos on her Instagram as well.

On December 18th, 2020, she created a YouTube channel for her lingerie business, and posted her first video. She has continued to post videos a few times a month. Notably, in late March 2021 she uploaded a video about her time working under the Kishimoto Hayami name, explaining her reasons for quitting as a singer and giving some behind-the-scenes information.

Discography

Albums

Mini-Album

Singles

Other DVDs

Compilations / Other

Unreleased Songs

  • Body ship
  • DARK WHITE
  • RETURN or RUN
  • DIG WAY


External Links

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