is a Japanese singer and a member of

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group PUFFY, along with

Yumi Yoshimura is a Japanese singer, best known as a member of the pop duo PUFFY, along with Ami Onuki. Early life and career She was born in Neyagawa, Osaka, in 1975. She learned that there was a talent search underway in Tokyo. She successfully tried out ...

Career

She has co-hosted several Japanese TV shows with the "cool" half of PUFFY,

, including the talk show ''

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'', part of a morning show called ''Saku-Saku'', and the 2006 series ''

Hi Hi Puffy Bu ''Hi Hi Puffy Club'', more accurately titled is Puffy AmiYumi's reality television series, which premiered on TV Asahi on 22 July 2007. The show stars both Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura, and its opening credits include them in a cel-shaded manga. ...

'', 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

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and announced the birth of their baby girl on her blog in March 2003. 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.

Legacy

On ''

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'', she is vocally portrayed by

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actress

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. In the show, her hair is pink and done in the classic odango atama hairstyle famously first worn by

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from the '' Sailor Moon''

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Instruments

Ami can play: *

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Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi is the 2nd single released by the Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi on October 7, 1996. It sold over 1.5 million copies and was their first #1 hit. They won "Japan Record Award for Best New Artist" in 1996. It is known in American releases as bei ...

) *

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Ai no Shirushi "Ai no shirushi" is the 6th single released by Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi. It was released on March 14, 1998. This song was written and composed by Masamune Kusano of band Spitz. Some of this song was played in the film Waterboys. They als ...

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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, ''

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'', released on 1997/08/06.

Track listing

# "Honey" # "Tadaima (I'm Home)" # "Honey (Original Karaoke)" # "Tadaima (Original Karaoke)"