Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna?) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model.[3] Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent.[4] She was bilingual at an early age but lost her fluency in English after her parents divorced when she was 7.[5] She has an older sister, Angela, who is also a former model.[6]
At 18, Tsuchiya terminated her contract with Seventeen, and supposedly decided to leave show-business altogether. However, after an offer by former Oblivion Dust member K.A.Z, she revived her music career (Tsuchiya had been involved in the music industry since age 16). In mid 2002, Tsuchiya joined with K.A.Z to form Spin Aqua.[16]
Soon after she debuted as a singer, and was sometimes dubbed "The Second Nanase" because of her resemblance to Nanase Aikawa, a popular '90s female singer. Spin Aqua released three singles, one album, and a video collection, but did not succeed commercially. In 2004, Tsuchiya became pregnant, and the group disbanded.
In 2005, Tsuchiya announced plans to begin a solo career. On August 24 on the same year, she released her first mini-album, Taste My Beat under Avex's sub-label, Mad Pray Records.[17] Her first single was Change Your Life, which was followed by the a second single entitled Slap that Naughty Body / My Fate. After the release of these two singles, Tsuchiya released her first remix album, Taste My Xxxremixxxxxxx!!!!!!!! Beat Life!. Her third single, Rose was used as the opening theme for NANA, alongside Olivia Lufkin's "Starless Night" used as the ending theme. This boosted Tsuchiya's music career, as Rose managed to reach a position of #6 on the Oricon charts and would become her first Top Ten Hit.[3]
In July 2006, Tsuchiya made her first overseas appearance at the Japan Expo in Paris.[18] During this time, to boost her popularity, Tsuchiya also debuted her album "Strip Me?".[19] Several songs from this album would go on to be used in commercials in Japan.
In early 2007, after a short hiatus, Tsuchiya would return to the music scene with a new single called "Kuroi Namida". This song would also be featured in the NANA anime. This was followed by the third NANA anime opening single, "Lucy" in early February. This would also directly precede a second full length NANA album, self-titled Anna Tsuchiya Inspi' NANA (Black Stones) which contained singles from the show and new songs. A quasi-soundtrack album called NANA Best was then released, which included popular and unreleased songs by both Olivia Lufkin and Tsuchiya from the TV series. In March 2007, both Lufkin's and Tsuchiya's songs from these albums were played at Shibuya AX in March 2007.[20] On June 30 of the same year, Tsuchiya performed at Anime Expo in the U.S., followed performances on July 27 at Pentaport Rock Festival in South Korea, and on July 29 at Formoz Festival in Taiwan. Called Tsichiya's "World Fez Tour", the series of performances concluded with a summer tour in Japan, which included a performance for a second time at Summer Sonic Festival.[21] Shortly after the tour concluded, Tsuchiya released her single Bubble Trip / Sweet Sweet Song on August 1.
The single Cocoon was released on January 30 of 2008, followed in June by the single Crazy World which was a collaboration with the Japanese artist AI. Tsuchiya released a third single in September 2008, called Virgin Cat, which was used to promote the show The L Word in Japan. In October, she released her third full length album, NUDY SHOW!, which contained all of the singles of her music career.
Tsuchiya's latest release (as of May 2010) is a remix of her NUDY SHOW! album called "Nudy xxxremixxxxxxx!!!!!!!! Show!".
A recent single 'Guilty' was featured in the ending credits of the film Resident Evil: Degeneration.[22]
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