JUJU

JUJU (ジュジュ, February 14, 1976 ) is a Japanese jazz singer. She is represented by Sony Music Associated Records Inc.

Biography
She currently resides in New York City. Since Juju was 12 years old, she had dreamed of becoming a jazz singer. While growing up in Kyoto, she participated in all sorts of music-related activities, and at the age of 18, she left for the US alone. While in New York, she was very taken with the "New York sound," including jazz, R&B, hip-hop, soul, Latin music, and house. Around 2001, Juju began to be featured in a number of works by other artists. In 2002, she provided music for the film "Kyouki no Sakura." In 2004, she debuted with her first single "Hikaru no Naka e". The same year, concurrent with her musical activities in New York, she started perfuming live in Japan. When her third single, "Kiseki wo Nozomu nara", was released, it topped the USEN charts and remained on the chart for a record length of 22 weeks. At this point, while she received support from a small group of listeners, she remained mostly unknown. On August 23, 2008, with the release of "Kimi no Subete ni", a collaboration between Spontania and Juju, she broke out onto the Japanese popular music scene, with the single receiving over 2.5 million downloads. Again, on November 26, 2008, another collaboration with Spontania named "Sunao ni Naretara" earned her even more fame, with the song receiving 2.2 million downloads.