Yuna Ito is regarded as a powerful singer in Japan, especially recognized for her high notes, and has been hailed as "the voice of an angel" by the Japanese media.

However, since almost every single of Ito Yuna's singles is also featured in a major TV series or movie, some people believe that her single sales are obviously affected by the crony effect (see single list).

There are also opinions in Japan that Ito Yuna's debut has pushed the phenomenon of Japanese foreign/Japanese foreign singers returning to Japan that has been popular in the Japanese music industry in recent years to its peak, causing the two giants in the Japanese music industry, Ai Hui and Xinli Boardman, to be more active in training and training.

Discover Japanese and foreign singers. In recent years, the performance of Japanese and foreign singers in Japan has also received increasing attention.

On the other hand, Ito Yuna herself has also maintained friendly relations with female Japanese and foreign singers in recent years.

Yuna Ito, YUI, KAELA Kimura, and Ayaka were named "Four Days New in the Japanese Music Scene" by Nikkei Entertainment Magazine.

Childhood and debut experience Ito Yuna's father is Japanese, her mother is Korean-American, and she has a brother who is five years younger than him.

She was born in Los Angeles, USA.

When she was three months old, the family moved to Hawaii.

She has regarded Mariah Carey as her idol since she was a child. At the age of 5, she had already learned to sing with a wide range of multiple octaves and won the first prize in a singing competition among 50 local high schools in Hawaii.

Yuna Ito decided to become a singer when she was 13 years old.

Once something unpleasant happened in middle school, she came home very disappointed and turned on the radio as usual.

The radio was playing "Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey.

"At that moment, I felt like I was floating in the air wearing my school uniform, and I felt an extremely free mood. I felt that music was so amazing. At the same time, I also wanted to be someone who could cheer others up with music, so I decided to become a singer.

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Since then, Ito Yuna has been imitating her favorite singers, such as Mariah, Whitney Houston, TLC, etc.

She used her pocket money to buy CDs, and not only listened to the music, but also memorized the lyrics and composition, the harmonies, the performing musicians, and the music explanations.

My first live experience was when I was 14 years old, singing at a small festival in Hawaii.

"I was so worried that I might eat the microphone. I was so nervous. In fact, it was a regrettable performance, but at the same time, I also understood that this is what I want to do, and it can't go wrong." Someone said

The idea was because there was a girl who heard it all the way to the end.

"I still can't forget that girl's expression. I swore at that time that as long as someone is willing to listen to my singing, I will continue to sing."

When Ito Yuna was 16 years old, she got an opportunity to sign a contract with a music company. At that time, a Japanese entertainment company held a large-scale singer selection event in Hawaii to find members of the group. However, the impression of the group was not what Yuna had imagined before.

Same, so she participated in the solo project again.

But she was very disappointed later: "They only regarded me as a little girl rather than a singer."

Yuna also said that she could not live in Japan for a long time, so the other party told her that after graduating from high school, she could go to Japan and work hard. She would participate in vocal lessons, dance training and many other things.

Eventually, Yuna told her parents about her plan to become a singer. At first, her parents did not approve of her choice, but hoped that she could continue to go to school and find a suitable boyfriend.

Yuna disagrees with her parents' ideas, believing that they "frame her life in a plan."

Just after graduating from high school, Yuna Ito came to Japan to continue pursuing her music dream.

But the reality is not that beautiful. Yuna thought that she would be able to become a singer and finally make her debut. But it turned out that it was not that simple. She went to the recording studio to record a sound. It was just like this. "I think if this continues, nothing will start."

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"At that time, money was a problem. Even money for food was obviously very tight, but I wanted to sing anyway, so I went to karaoke to practice." So far, she has not been able to debut as a singer. "No one regarded me as necessary.

"Existence, what kind of audition experience is needed in the future?" One day a year and a half after leaving Hawaii, Ito Yuna encountered an unbelievable nightmare, and the person from the agency that brought her from Hawaii to Japan?

Escaped to Osaka.

So from then on, the singer selection and audition had to be done all over again, starting from scratch. This feeling was completely unbearable for Yuna.

In June 2004, 20-year-old Yuna Ito made a decision: "This will be the last audition I will participate in." This audition was considered to be the last audition she participated in for Sony Music, the company she belonged to.

Company audition.