She’s not the world’s best singer, but she’s better than Tila Tequila. Check out the vocal stylings of Japanese AV idol Sora Aoi.

And again she is promoting her new musicvideo ‘I Love U‘ very well. Besides YouTube you will find it on various videosites as well as on MySpace. Since this week it’s also available for download to mobile phone. And as as far as I’m informed correctly the song is available at iTunes on February 27, and includes a free copy of this music video.

Namie Amuro, born on September 20, 1977, is a Japanese pop singer of Ryukyuan ancestry. In the Japanese press she was referred to as the “Queen of J-pop” before Ayumi Hamasaki eclipsed her popularity in the mainstream pop scene. She was noted in her early years for her Westernized dance music and popularized fashion whose followers came to be nicknamed Amurâ (Amurer in English).

Selected links:
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/amuro/
http://www.namieamuro.net/gallery/
http://www.amuro-namie.com/
http://www.amurox.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namie_Amuro

This is just a quick note to let everybody know that – just yesterday – we released my first CD and DVD! Okay, so they still aren’t my full commercial products (the first of these are due out next year), but they’re the perfect Christmas gift for any real Sachiko fan! Just go to our Merchandise page for more details and to purchase. There are also several free sample clips on this page.

Annie was born in Taiwan in 1969. When her mother moved to Japan to remarry a Japanese man, her name was changed to Shizuka Inoh, which she simplified into Chinese name Yi Neng Jing she returned to Taiwan to begin her singing career at the age of 19.

She first found fame with the Fei-Ying group consisting of Eric Moo, Qiu Haizheng, Fang Wenlin and herself. She became a teen idol in the 1990s and successfully branched off into acting. Her most notable role was in the 2000 TV Miniseries “Ren Jian Si Yue Tian”, as Lu Xiaoman, one of the most important women in the life of the famous Chinese essayist-poet Xu Zhimo.Writing became another outlet for her creativity, and she began contributing essays to a woman’s monthly magazine. Her first novel, “Fallen Angels,” was published in Taiwan in 1990, followed by three other successful semi-autobiographical books. Including the 2002 “Testament of Life and Death,” written as a series of love letters to her husband, Harlem Yu.

Some facts

Birthname: Wu Jing Yi
Nicknames: Inoh Shizuka, Annie Yi Neng Jing
Date of birth: March 04, 1969
Place of birth: Taiwan
Etnicity: Taiwanese
Height: 5′ 3½” (1.61 m)

Annie Yi on the web

Annie Yi @ celebritiestime.com
Annie Yi @ imdb.com
Annie Yi @ wiki.d-addicts.com
Annie Yi @ chinadaily.com.cn
Annie Yi @ news.xinhuanet.com
Annie Yi @ beautifulnewsmakers.blogspot.com

Last month, I featured sultry Filipina singer Sheree. Turns out she’s a pretty hot dancer, too.

(Via Philippines for Men.)