Ami Onuki
- J-pop
- pop rock
- pop punk
Ami Onuki (Japanese: 大貫 亜美, Hepburn: Ōnuki Ami, born September 18, 1973) is a Japanese singer and a member of J-pop group PUFFY, along with Yumi Yoshimura.
Career
She has co-hosted several Japanese TV shows with the "cool" half of PUFFY, Yumi Yoshimura, including the talk show Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Puffy, part of a morning show called Saku-Saku, and the 2006 series Hi Hi Puffy Bu, in which Ami and Yumi perform one given task each week to comedic effect.
Personal life
She married Teru, the vocalist of the rock band Glay and announced the birth of their baby girl on her blog in March 2003.[1] On PUFFY's 2007 greatest hits album Hit & Fun, Ami is pictured both on the CD cover and within the CD insert clearly wearing both an engagement and wedding ring on her left ring finger, and she continues to wear her wedding ring in pictures on the PUFFY Staff Diary.[2]
Legacy
On Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, she is vocally portrayed by Japanese-American actress Janice Kawaye. In the show, her hair is pink and done in the classic odango atama hairstyle famously first worn by Usagi Tsukino from the Sailor Moon media franchise.
Instruments
Ami can play:
- Guitar
- Drums (PUFFY SPIKE Daisakusen - Owaranai Uta)
- Harmonica (Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi)
- Timpani (Jet Tour '98 - Ai no Shirushi)
- Trumpet (Cosmic*Wonder)
Solo songs
Ami has sung the listed solo songs:
AmiYumi
- Usagi Channel (Rabbit Channel)
Solo Solo
- Onna no ko, Otoko no ko (Girls and Boys)
- Love Depth
- Honey
- That Sweet Smile
- Be Someone Tonight
- Snacks
- Tadaima (I'm Home)
Jet-CD
- Lemon Kid
Fever*Fever
- Always Dreamin' About You
The Hit Parade
- Aishuu Date (NEW YORK CITY NIGHTS)
Spike
- Destruction Pancake
Splurge
- Security Blanket
Solo single
On July 2, 1997, Ami and Yumi each released her own solo single before their original solo album, Solo Solo, released on 1997/08/06.
Track listing
- "Honey"
- "Tadaima (I'm Home)"
- "Honey (Original Karaoke)"
- "Tadaima (Original Karaoke)"
References
External links
- Ami Onuki at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Ami Onuki at IMDb
- Home at Epic
- Hit & Run (Japanese management)
- Bar None Records
- Sony Music Artists Inc
- Puffy AmiYumi World
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- Ami Onuki
- Yumi Yoshimura
- "Asia no Junshin"
- "Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi"
- "Circuit no Musume"
- "Nagisa ni matsuwaru etc."
- "Ai no Shirushi"
- "Tararan/Puffy no tourmen"
- "Puffy de Rumba"
- "Yume no tame ni"
- "Umi e to"
- "Boogie Woogie No. 5"
- "Atarashii hibi"
- "Aoi namida"
- "Hurricane"
- "Akai buranko"
- " Sunrise"
- "Hajimari no Uta/Nice Buddy"
- "Hi Hi"
- "Mogura Like"
- "Tokyo I'm on My Way"
- "Hazumu Rizumu"
- "Hataraku Otoko"
- "Boom Boom Beat/Oh Edo NagareboshiIV"
- "Oriental Diamond/Kuchibiru Motion"
- "All Because Of You"
- "My Story"
- "Hiyori Hime"
- "Dareka ga"
- "R.G.W."
- Puffy: P.S. I Love You
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Kaznapped!
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp