Japanese Singer Namie Amuro

Namie Amuro was born September 20, 1977 in Naha,Okinawa Japan.

She is a Japanese singer, dancer, and former child actor.

At the height of her popularity, Namie was refered to as "Teen Queen" and the "Queen of Japanese pop music".

Namie started out at the age of fourteen in a Japanese girl group called "Super Monkeys".

She left the group and released two singles.

After Namie joined up with music producer Tetsuya Komuro she quickly became a commercial success.

She produced several million-selling records and starting several fashion trends, including the "Amuraa" craze, in which girls across Japan copied aspects of Amuro's look, including her clothes, tanned skin, hair, and "pencil thin eyebrows".

She is also credited with starting the Ganguro trend, consisting of hair dyed in shades of orange, blonde, or a silver gray, false eyelashes, plastic facial gems, pearl powder, platform shoes and brightly-colored outfits.

In late 1997, Namie put her career on hold because of her pregnancy and engagement to Masaharu Maruyama, of the band TRF (they later divorced)

She returned to music in 1998, but it was slow going with record sales not hitting her previous height. This began to change however when she shifted her focus from pop to R&B.

Now Namie is poised to start her tour, Namie Amuro BEST FICTION 2008-2009, that may top her previous tours.

This divorced, working, single mother has come a long way from " Teen Queen" in a short time

On November 4th, 2008, Tetsuya Komuro was arrested by police in Osaka Japan for allegedly defrauding an investor of 500 million yen ($5.03 million).