AI

Ai Uemura (November 2, 1981 -), a Japanese female singer with the stage name AI, was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Kagoshima, Japan. The mother is Italian-American. In 1996, he went to the United States for further study. Because he loved rhythm and blues, he decided to devote himself to black music. He made his debut in 1999 and returned to Japan to perform in 2000. He has collaborated with Ken Hirai, Namie Amuro, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Miria Kato, American hip-hop singer Snoop Dogg, etc., and is quite famous in Japan. At the end of 2014, he participated in Utada Hikaru's fifteenth anniversary album and sang a cover of Utada Hikaru's "FINAL DISTANCE", which was well received by Japanese music fans.