Aiko's cheerful love songs made her one of the prime forces of J-pop of the early and mid-2000s, when she wooed teenage fans all over East Asia and topped the Oricon favorite singer poll twice in a row in 2005 and 2006. Born in 1975 (full name Yanai Aiko), she graduated from Osaka College of Music and began DJing at a local FM station, working on her own material in her spare time. She debuted in ...more















