Hirai Kenji

essential information

Early experience

On January 17, 1972, Hirai was born in Osaka, Japan. When he was just born, the fortune teller said that he was easy to be robbed by peach blossoms and suffered losses from women. Therefore, his mother-in-law suggested that he be named "Jian" in the hope that he would have strong and firm willpower to avoid bad women, so she named him "Jian". After graduating from high school in Ueno University in mitsuka Prefecture, Hirai entered the Department of economics of Yokohama City University in Japan. When I was a university student, I imitated and formed a band named "Yaya" because I loved Southern Star member Morita Jiayou. At the same time, he tried to be a resident singer in the "21st century" live house in Shinjuku. In 1992, Hirai took part in the annual talent show held by Sony Music Entertainment Company of Japan. He stood out from 7500 participants and won the award. In 1993, it signed a contract with Sony Music Entertainment company. In the early stage, it was mainly composed and arranged. During the two years has not released any records, only monthly regular live singing in the original ruido.

Acting experience

In May 1995, Hirai released his first single, precise junk. Although the single is the theme song of the TV series miracle restaurant, it only won the top 50 in Japan's public trust list. After that, a total of nine debut concerts "live Caravan" were held. The second single "separate headphones" was released in June. In July, he released his first album UN balanced, in which 11 songs were composed by Hirai himself, but the cumulative sales of the album was only 10000. After the release of the third single "side face" in November, the concert "Ken Hirai Live Tour" 95 "side face" was held in three places in China. In 1996, Hirai released two singles "downpour" and "stay with me", but the results are still unsatisfactory. Stareat, the second album released in the same year, didn't even make it into Japan's public trust list. The main reason is that Hirai took the route of pop music when he first came out, which was not prominent in the highly competitive Japanese art and energy industry. In April 1997, Kubota was invited to work as a record producer for his first overseas recording in New York. In July, the sixth single "heatup" was released, which is the image song of Kyushu college baseball game. In May 1998, Hirai began to hold one or two "Ken's bar" concept concerts every month. He takes the bar manager and lead singer as the concept of enterprise planning, with no plug-in music as the center, so that the audience can enjoy music in the form of drinking while listening to music. Its distinctive style was first created in Japan, and even Hirai also served as DJ, VJ, etc. In the same year, he took part in the TV series "tokyoheartbreak ~", which appeared in the 20th "lastsong". In 1999, Hirai did not release any music. In 2000, Hirai began to try R & B style songs because of the poor performance of his previous records. When the eighth single "paradise" was released in January, it was also intended to move behind the scenes. But unexpectedly, although the sales volume of the single was only 2780 in the first week, the final cumulative sales volume was more than 530000. As Hirai's first entry into the top 10 of Japan's public trust list, Hirai's song has become his turning over work. In June, he accepted the invitation of Apollo Theater in New York, served as a special guest on amateurnight and sang three songs. At the same time, Hirai released his third album "thechangingsame" in 2004. The album sold 380000 copies in the first week of its release and landed at the top of Japan's weekly public trust list. After that, with the release in October, Hirai was in the list for 68 weeks. Finally, with a total sales of more than 1.26 million copies, he won the million record certification of Japan Record Association and became Hirai's first million album. In addition, he won the 15th Japan golden Record Award for best rock and pop album of the year. In December, the 11th restricted single "evenif" was released, in which the song "evenif" was always the last solo song in Hirai's performance. This song has never been published in the album before, but for the coming of Christmas at the end of the 2000 century, Hirai firmly rearranged this song and released it as a Christmas gift for fans. In the same year, Hirai first appeared on the 51st NHK red and white concert, singing the song "paradise". in July 2001, the sales volume of the fourth album "growing through falling" exceeded 570000 in the first week, and then won the million record certification of the Japan record association with a total sales volume of more than 1080000, becoming Hirai's second million album. After the release of the album, the concert "Ken Hirai live tour 2001" growing through "with the theme of the album was performed on the national tour. In October, he first boarded the Japanese martial arts museum. in August 2002, he released the 16th single "the old clock", which covers the American song from 1876 and has won the top of Japan's weekly public trust list for four consecutive weeks. This is not only the first weekly champion single since Hirai's debut, but also the first time that a song published 100 years ago has won the championship. After that, it became the best single of the year at the 17th Japan golden Record Awards with a cumulative sales of 850000 copies. At the same time, it was also one of the top ten single sales in 2002. In November, the 17th single "ring" was released, which is not only the theme song of the TV series "psychiatrist", but also Hirai's first single that did not participate in the MV performance. in January 2003, he participated in the "MTV Unplugged live" concert in New York, USA, and became the first Japanese male singer to participate in the performance. At the same time, release the fifth album "lifeis...", which includes all the singles released after the previous album. In the first week, the album won the top of Japan's public trust weekly list with a sales volume of 350000 copies. After 89 weeks, the total sales volume exceeded 800000 copies. In March, he became the first Japanese guest invited to perform on CNN's "musicroom" program. In December, Hirai recorded his personal concept concert "Ken's bar" into a record and released his first cover album "Ken's bar", which eventually sold 490000 copies. in April 2004, she released her 20th single "close your eyes lightly", which is the theme song of the love film "cry for love in the center of the world". The single sold 890000 pieces in 59 weeks in Japan's public trust list, and finally exceeded 1 million pieces in total. It became the champion of single sales in 2004 and the best single of the year in the 19th Japan golden Record Awards. In November, Hirai released his sixth album "sentimentalovers", in which 12 songs were composed by himself. In the first week, the album reached the top of Japan's public trust weekly list with 680000 copies sold. It appeared for 52 weeks, and finally won the million record certification of Japan record association with more than 1.6 million copies sold. It is Hirai's third million album. In May 2005, Hirai held a total of 29 national touring concerts for the 10th anniversary of his debut. Pop star, the 23rd single released in October, is regarded as a breakthrough in Hirai's style transformation. Because in the music video, he played seven roles, creating seven different shapes of Hirai. In November, he released his first album of ten years, Hirai chien - a complete collection of ten years of love songs. DISC1 mainly includes works from 1995 to 2000, and DISC2 mainly includes works from 2001 to 2005. The album sold 920000 copies in the first week, and the cumulative sales exceeded 2.1 million copies in the end, making it the 2006 album sales champion. In 2006, due to his style transformation, Hirai reduced his production and only released his 24th single by (E) my melody in June, in which two songs were selected as advertising songs. in 2007, after a year of transformation, Hirai finally started to work hard after a rest. In January, the 25th single "Elegy" was released as the theme song of the romantic film "love's exile". In February, he sang the theme song "just like you" for the love drama "the queen of singing", and then the song was included in the 26th single. This is the eighth time for Hirai to sing a theme song for Japanese opera. in March 2008, he released his seventh album "fakin'pop", the title of which was in Hirai's mind, and the whole album was also produced by myself. In addition, 12 of the 13 songs in the album are theme songs of advertisements, TV dramas and movies. Among them, the song "portrait" was written by Hirai in memory of his dead father. In April, the 28th single "Canvas / you, good, great" was released ♥ 》The single, with the theme of campus pure love, contains 6 songs. The MV of the main song "canvas" was shot by Hirai Ken back to his alma mater, Yokohama University, Japan, and later became the theme song of the TV series "Honey lucky grass". In April 2009, Hirai sang the Japanese version of the theme song H

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