Crystal Kay

Crystal Kay, with a black American father and a Korean mother, is a Japanese pop singer.

A 17 year-old tremendously talented female singer has finally shown up on the Japanese music scene...She is Crystal Kay. Her father is a NY-born black bassist, and mother is a Korea-born singer. Born and raised in Yokohama, Crystal Kay now attends American school. Grown under the professional musical circumstance since birth, she naturally turned to be a special singer. For her, black music is not anything special, but a genre of music which remains in her living as a matter of course.

First appearance of her voice to the world was at her age of 6, through TV CF. Since her motherfs friend was related to TV CF business, Crystal sang some songs for TV CF and people started to pay attention to her voice. Many major record companies tried to get contact with her and finally, Epic Records contracted with her in fall of 1998. Then Crystal made a debut with single gEternal Memoriesh in July 1999.

Speaking English and Japanese fluently (now studying French at school), she is none other than a 17 year-old high school student. However, she will be one of the artists with multi-national flavor to create some movements in the music scene of the 21st century. In October of 2002, she released her 3rd album ealmost seventeenf. This album charted at No.2 on ORICON chart at first appearance. Various kinds of music, such as pop, ballad, Hip-Hop and R&B etc. are included in this album. You will find many aspects of Crystal in it. Many media covered her and this album became a big hit. Then her visibility was increased as well. The first activity in 2003 was the collaboration with M-FLO. Her new album "4REAL" has just been released.

Discography

• Almost Seventeen

External links

• Sonymusic Official Site