Tomomi Kahara

She is famous for working with Tetsuya Komuro who gave her much success in the 1990s, which led to her deep dip in popularity after 1999, the year in which she released her first non-TK produced album, One Fine Day.

Tomomi Kahara and Tetsuya Komuro dated for a few years, but they suffered from personal problems which led to their breakup.

Before she started her career as a singer, she worked as a model, and appeared in fashion magazines such as CanCam and Vivi as well as TV shows.

Her breakup with Tetsuya Komuro, frequent scandals, and suicide attempts shed her in a negative light in the conservative Japanese media.

After some time relaxing after the scandals, Tomomi Kahara resumed her career at Warner writing her own lyrics.

After Komuro, Kahara worked with a variety of producers at Warner Music Japan, including American Andy Marvel (Diana King, Jessica Simpson) and recorded songs by Gary Carolla (N Sync) and Vincent Degiorgio (N Sync, Atomic Kitten, Love, Inc., Mink, Nakano Mori Band) which appeared on her albums One Fine Day and Love Again, released in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

Her most recent recordings for Universal Music Japan have shown her in a dazzling and sultry light with some of her best vocal performances to date.

[4] She was one of the voice actors for the 'Sound of Music' Japanese DVD and she sang the theme song for a NHK Taiga drama.

On June 29, 2007, Kahara canceled her contract with Ogipro after repeated personal problems affected her professional appearances.

Dream – self cover Best In August 2013, following the suicide of Hikaru Utada's mother, Kahara generated controversy when she stated that she wished to make a song about the event.