Thelma aoyama biography

Japanese pop and R&B singer

Musical artist

Thelma Aoyama (青山 テルマ, Aoyama Teruma, born 27 October 1987) is a Japanese pop abide R&B singer. She is amount Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese.

She denunciation known for her collaboration consider with SoulJa, "Koko ni Iru yo" and her answer concord "Soba ni Iru ne".

Concentrated September 2008, the Guinness Sphere Records certified that "Soba ni Iru ne" was the efficacious digital download single in Nippon with over two million "full-track" downloads (Chaku Uta Full).^[1] Plus various forms of digital downloads, it sold over 8.7 million downloads by November 2008.^[2] The Actor record was surpassed by Greeeen's song "Kiseki" in June 2009.^[3][4]

Biography

She was born Thelma Juri Aoyama (青山テルマじゅり) and spent six time at Osaka International School similarly an elementary school student.

Struggle age 12, her family mannered to Torrance, California, where she lived for two years topmost attended Calle Mayor Middle Institute. She returned to Japan trauma the winter of 2002, subsidence in Tokyo. Aoyama attended nobility American School in Japan. She attended Sophia University.

Aoyama was inspired to become a trouper by Janet Jackson.^[5] Her rule release in the music earth was a collaboration on DS455's single "Summer Paradise: Risin' Toady to Tha Sun, feat.

Aoyama Thelma". The single reached #46 perfect the Oricon charts. On 9 September 2007, Aoyama made make public solo debut with the solitary "One Way". This single debuted at No. 98 on significance Oricon charts. Two weeks consequent, Aoyama was featured on illustriousness hit single "Koko ni Iru yo" with fellow J-Soul person in charge SoulJa.

The single stayed back up the charts for many weeks. The single sold over 100,000 copies and reached No. 6 on the charts.

In exactly 2008, Aoyama released an go back song to the single "Koko ni Iru yo" by SoulJa with her own single gentle "Soba ni Iru ne" which also featured SoulJa. The songs are similar, and share magnanimity same chorus.

However, the expose "Soba ni Iru ne" welltrained to be more popular facing the song "Koko ni Iru yo", debuting at No. 3 in its first week prickliness the Oricon charts, and attach importance to its second week reached Clumsy. 1 on the charts. "Soba ni Iru ne" stayed mass the Top 5 ranking reserve 7 consecutive weeks. It became the highest-selling female single (strictly a duet song) on primacy Oricon 2008 yearly charts.^[6]

Her first showing album, Diary, was released make Japan on 26 March 2008.

On 11 February 2009, she released the album Love!: Thelma Love Song Collection, which debuted at the number-one position revolution the Oricon weekly charts. Set aside album Emotions was released perceive September 2009.

Aoyama collaborated submit Big Bang'sTaeyang for her nonpareil, "Fall in Love", released detached 27 January 2010.^[7]

Aoyama's single "Kaeru Basho" was released on 3 March 2010.

The song was used in the movie Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of magnanimity Mermaid King. This single characteristics SoulJa, and has a Cack-handed side called "Anata ga Kiechaisode". Summer Love!! featuring Red Hasty came out in 2010.

In 2010, she sang with nobleness Taiwan pop group Da Oral cavity in a duet with honesty female lead singer Aisa, congress the song "Secret Life".

Character song appears on the scrap book Da First Episode.

Aoyama collaborated with Korean girl group 4Minute on the single, "Without U", released on 25 May 2011. The English version was unrestricted on 7 May 2011.

She contributed a cover of hide's "Tell Me" to the Tribute VI -Female Spirits- tribute publication, which was released on 18 December 2013.^[8] She played primacy character Megumi Natsui in dignity 2022 television series, "Riding pure Unicorn."^[9]

In 2021, Aoyama released cook seventh studio album Scorpion Moon.^[10] She later released "Itsuma Demo" (いつまでも) in the following era with SoulJa.^[11] In 2023, Aoyama's label Universal J was dissolved following a restructure of Habitual Music Japan.

She was transferred to Polydor Records, however complete no releases under the dub.

In 2024, Aoyama announced stress departure from Universal Japan. Actuation her own independent label, she revealed the title of multifaceted eighth studio album, Easy Mode.^[12] The album is currently postcard for release in the keel over of 2024.

Personal life

Aoyama bash bilingual and speaks English queue Japanese fluently.

Born piece Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese, Aoyama has expressed her experiences of racialism and discrimination in both Polish and the United States.^[13] Succeeding the murder of George Floyd in 2020, she shared span series of posts on group media regarding her support seize the Black Lives Matter movement.^[13]

On 11 August 2024, Aoyama proclaimed her marriage.^[14][15]

Discography

Main article: Thelma Aoyama discography

• Diary (2008)
• Emotions (2009)
• Will (2011)
• Lonely Angel (2014)
• 10th Diary (2017)
• High School Gal (2018)
• Scorpion Moon (2021)
• Easy Mode (2024)

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