I have decided to start a Crystal Kay Thread why because she SO deserves it. It will go pretty slow because sources on her are hard to find so bear with me or contribute if you LOVE her like I do she needs to be shown so love! This is my first time trying this so here goes nothing for Miss Crystal Kay

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Crystal Kay was born Crystal Kay Williams on February 26, 1986 in Yokohama, the daughter of a bass playing African American father and a singing Korean mother. She began singing at a very young age, and by the age of six was recording as a vocalist for major advertising. Also as a child she attended a Diana Ross concert, where she brought Ms. Ross flowers and received a kiss on the cheek in return. While born in Japan, Crystal is an American citizen, and attended international school. While she has been active in the entertainment business since she was a toddler, she has not neglected her education, and is currently enrolled in Jochi University in Tokyo. Crystal Kay and Hikaru Utada have quite few things in common, and are often compared. Similarities include being native English speakers, having parents who are musicians who groomed them from an early age, R&B oriented material, debut albums which sold only moderately well, and then developing into major stars. Additionally, while both are generally considered idols, unlike many idols, they are both musical and possess strong, soulful voices. Crystal Kay was signed to Sony's Epic label while just 12 years old. She made her recorded debut July 1, 1999 with the single "Eternal Memories", and released her first album, Crystal Lover Light, in March 2000. Crystal's second album, 637- always and forever, sold respectably, reportedly near 100,000 copies. It was with her third release, Almost Seventeen, in October 2002 that she had her real commercial breakthrough, with the album going on to sell over 400,000 copies. As Crystal has grown older, her sound has progressively become more R&B, and these days she is often compared to foreign singers like Janet Jackson and Brandy. She has been very successful with her collaboration with the Japanese hip-hop team m-flo, with whom she has recorded the singles "Ex-Boyfriend" (2001), "Hard To Say" (2002), "I Like It" (2003) and "Reewind" (2003). She has also added to her exposure by working regularly as a DJ on FM Yokohama. Her "best of" album, CK5, was released in June 2004. Her single "Kiss", released in December of 2004, was used in NTT DoCoMo advertising, which helped make it a hit. Crystal's newest full length CD, Crystal Style, was released in March 2005 and went to #2 in Oricon's album chart. Her follow-up single "Koi Ni Ochitara" was featured in a popular TV drama, and went to #1. Quite a career already for someone not yet 20 years old.


Credit: Nippop Written by: Keith Cahoon

Albums

Title

2000 Crystal Lover Light

2001 637 Always and Forever

2003 Almost Seventeen

2003 4Real

2003 Natural

2004 Crystal Style

2006 Call Me Miss

Singles

Title

2001 Girls Night

2001 Ex-Boyfriend

2001 Think Of You

2002 Hard To Say

2002 Girl U Love

2003 Boyfriend Part 2

2003 I Like It

2003 Reeewind

2003 Candy

2003 Can't Be Stopped

2004 Motherland

2004 Bye My Darling

2005 Kiss

2005 Two As One

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Pictures: Here are a few pics of her most of them are album and singles jacket pics becuase finding photo shoots, candid shots and such are HARD to find on her. I dont know how to speak Japanese so this makes it even harder.











more pic to come

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Ok so that is it for now like I said something to get it started if you can contribute please PLEASE DO! I need HELP! Although I will recommend a site to find out more about her YOUTUBE.COM go there to see her MV's perfs. interviews, clips, etc. They do a pretty good job of keeping track of her and if anyone knows of any Forums on her please list them I myself have been looking for some but can't seem to find any so if you know of any dont be shy to share .

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isn't Motherland the ending song for Fullmetal Alchemist?

I like that song

Oh I like her!
I'm glad u made this thread cuz I don't know much about her!

I used to see her appear on an Asian show called Evolution and she is a Japanese singer. She looked more like an African American to me so I was puzzled that she sang in Japanese. It is all cleared up now since she has an African American father.

thanks for the info. i listened to CK5 recently and it was pretty good. i'm hooked on Motherland.

jmidou- Yes it is the song for Fullmetal Alchemist! I love the song too^^

LucasBunny-No problem I am glad to share as much info on her that I possess.^^ I love her I highly recommend visiting YouTube.com they have a bunch of her stuff there just type in Crystal Kay.^^

sweetmemories- Yeah I understand what you mean. I was shocked to find out that she is Korean and African American I always thought since she sings Japanese mostly that she was African American and Japanese.^^

Take Five- I recommend her new album Call Me Miss it is SOOOO GOOD! you can find it and Solid07 Forums to download that is. I HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER NEW ALBUM AWESOME!

This girl is such an awesome live singer her voice is so clear.^^


Like I said before if you know of any Forums on Crystal Kay please share them here. Sites on her are very hard to find.^^

I knew she's half Korean before hearing her songs ^^ ,but the fact that she's African-Japanese-Korean is so awesome ... I always thought that her skin is brown-dyed just becoz it makes her more sexy

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I don't believe she's Japanese in an biological/ethnic sense, but more culturally. That's where she was born and raised so she's Japanese, just like how people in the US come from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds but are still American.

I LOVE her! Omg, "Kirakuni" was on repeat for a couple weeks straight with me, and her stuff with M-flo is great too. I need to order her latest release.

Kirakuni is so damn catchy!

^ I freakin love KiraKuni I love ALL OF CALL ME MISS! Awesome awesome album

I can listen to Call Me Miss for hours. CK should so debut in America, I'd think she would be famous.

^ I could not AGREE MORE she possess the talent to make it BIG in the U.S.A.!

I do listen to it for hours especially the first three tracks Baby Girl KiraKuni, Koi Ni Ochitara, then Telepathy, I Know, Fly To You, Two As One, Kitto, and Kiss Orchestra version so beautiful.

Crystal Kay is one of the best jpop singers I've listened to. The first song I liked of hers was the song I like it and the stuff she does with M-Flo. Her songs that have rap in them are good.

Yeh she has a great style!

I love Crystal Kay!!!
I think she has the potential to make it big in the US ^____^

i remember when she used to be underrated around here. i stopped listening to her after finding some other singers, but CK is a really good singer.

I liked her when she was on Music Station, 'cause she was really sweet, chatty, and mature. When I had first seen a MV by her a couple years ago, I actually thought she was just really dark for being Japanese.
I totally like a bunch of her songs. ^o^

Crystal Kay is really good...I love her music <3

I liked her when she was on Music Station, 'cause she was really sweet, chatty, and mature. When I had first seen a MV by her a couple years ago, I actually thought she was just really dark for being Japanese.
I totally like a bunch of her songs. ^o^

anyone know where i can download Call Me Miss?

I think she is very down to earth!

Crystal Kay was in one of my class last year. I don't know her personally but at school she looks pretty normal and don't really wear make-up or dress up or anything like that. Her boyfriend also goes to the school (he's half Japanese & half white~~but he's not really that cute. Actually, I'm not 100% sure that he's her bf, but I always see them together and holding hands and stuff...so I'm assuming that he is.) Although she's quite popular in Japan, people at school don't really stare or gasp when they her or anything. In that sense, she's treated like everyone else... Just thought I share some info...

I've heard of her, mostly because of M-flo, and I've sampled her music - which has good beats. I think I listened to Call Me Miss. I didn't know that she's part Korean - which is interesting, because they tend to be more alienated in Japanese culture, even though Koreans are the largest minority group in Japan.

That is quite cool! I'm glad that she sounds normal, and it must be nice to be able to live a normal life even if you are a singer.

I love CK!! I'm so happy that she's successful because she really is talented~

i like "Kiss" from one of her songs..

Kuri is definately one of the best artists in Japan. Her voice alone is so frikkin

I love crystal kay! "motherland" is my favorite....

WHOAAAAAAA SHEES HALF KOREAN?

I NEVER KNEW.. O_O !!

she has such fantastic voice!!

i love Reewind, i like it and more more more... lol

never knew she was half-korean

she has an awesome voice, any singles released in 2006 ?

yup yup shes half korean. her mom is a singer aswell-i believe shes a zainichi korean. Kuri doesnt know any korean though just english and japanese. She is very down to earth and even though she knows so many famous people all the ppl that have met her say she comes across as grounded. her recent concert was off the hook. call me miss is such a good album. i think it may be the last album with sony too. thats if she decides not to renew her contract as it expired this year.

if you wanna get kuri pics, media and news etc these r great forums-join join join!

http://s12.invisionfree.com/C_2_da_Kay/index.php?

My fave song is Boyfriend

And I also like Koi ni Ochitara, as well as her collabs w/ M-Flo

my friends all love KIRAKUNI~

I like her songs with m-flo and with chemistry.

i love her music =) juss listened to her album "call me miss". it was okay =x i only liked a couple of them

Crystal Kay is amazing :]
I love her music
So addicting!

when I first heard her speak English, I was surprised because I thought she was borned and RAISED in Japan, so I didn't think her English would be as fluent as it is. The song she did with MFLo was awesome

the first song i heard from crystal kay was boyfriend part 2
i fell in love with her music rite there and then
i got my friends into it too

CRSTAL KAY ROCKS...OUT LOUD!!!! lol

i dont know much about, so ima gonna check out the yutube thingy, but she seems to be a really good live performer from what ive seen so far and yes she does remind me of a younger Janet Jackson...hot indeed...

Her next single is set to be release on January 17,2007. It's call "Kitto Eien ni".. I just saw the Music Video for it. I love it!!!!!! it's soo good... She look so mature in it.

My fave song from her is "Tears"

omg i just realized she's only 2 years older than me!
and I been a fan for about 2 years now...i feel bad...

I love CKay! She is a great friend. I have her on my myspace! She is pretty and talented!

so weird, when first started getting into crystal kay, i had NO idea she was an african american mix!! thought she was just a japanese brought up in the us or sth.....shes really really good. love her music!!

Man I love her voice. My fav song by her is As it began. Its so hard to find stuff on her.

hehe yeah I know what show your talking about..."revolution" That show used to show all Korean mvs then they started showing j-pop mvs.

I first came across CK during an interview she did for "Pop Japan TV" I was wow whose this gorgeous gal. My brothers seen her too, and thought she was hella fine!! I knew she was a mix, I thought she was part-japanese too, but then when I found out that she was part korean I like wow!!!!

One of the first songs that I heard of hers was "Ex-boyfriend" pt2 I used to jam that song all the time. I loved that song. My next fav was "Motherland" I loved that song sooo much, my mom even liked it too. I think that was her first ballad song. I loved the song she did with Chemistry. She has another single on that album "My everything" that song was off tha hook too!!!! If I didn't know her I would have thought she was an american singer.

I don't know what's up...but she has alot of potiental to make her in the states. She did study and train in NYC. Its such a shame that the american producers over look someone with some much talent and potiental.

Heard "Anato no soba de あなたのそばで" when I was in Japan last week...the video is fantastic too! am loving it. can't wait for her latest album to come out!

I love her song/dance/video for kirakuri orsomething:d

only song i know

After I heard her music I'm surprised it took a while for me to hear about her.

I heard about her after she appeared as a guest on CTKT.
Slow, yes.
But she's FABULOUS! あなたのそばで made me adore her immediately!
あなたのそばで,あなたのそばで.
I'm mad!~

I think the first song I heard from Crystal Kay was 恋におちたら(koi ni ochitara) because some two years ago this Japanese exchange student kept singing that song so I finally looked it up :33
Crystal Kay has a fabulous voice~
Motherland was a good song, too~

Crystal Kay is my favorite artist. Kekeke.

Sorry for reviving this thread but I just absolutely LOOVE Kuri-chan. I wish I can go to one of her concerts, but she's all the way in Japan.

I'll determined to go to Japan to see her in concert after high school!