Going Wild with Amuro Namie

It looks like a new Asian singer is going to hit Manila soon and it’s a name we haven’t heard yet. This time, it’s not coming from South Korea, Taiwan or Hong Kong but from Japan. Her name is Amuro Namie.

Remember that name — Amuro Namie — ‘coz she’s going to strike the Philippine airwaves anytime soon. So far, what we’ve got is this music video of her most popular song called “Wild“.


The lyrics might sound mumbo-jumbo (okay, except for that line that goes “Let’s get wild!“) to many of us Filipinos but this is not the first time we danced to a tune of a song we couldn’t even spell, right?
The song, Wild, was released in March 2009 and became her 11th #1 single. She also broke her own record of having all of her singles debut in the Top 10 (on the daily charts) for the last 15 years.

Amuro has been in the Japanese music industry since the late 90′s and over a decade since her musical debut, Amuro has remained one of the longest surviving popular female acts in Japan. She is the only Japanese female artist to have achieved a Top 10 single each year for fourteen consecutive years. Now, that’s a record worthy of the title “Queen of J-Pop“.