Sexy Japanese Singer Kumi Koda

Born on November 13th 1982, Koda was the eldest in her family. At an early age of 3, Koda Kumi starting singing on stage. She started doing auditions at elementary school, and wrote that she wanted to become a singer in her elementary year book.

Kumi Koda's first single TAKE BACK charted 18th in Billboard Magazine's Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles chart after its US release in March 2001. Her follow-up single, TRUST YOUR LOVE charted 39th in Billboard's Hot 100 single sales chart and No.1 in Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles chart.

She has collaborated with Korea's BoA on THE MEANING OF PEACE, a September 11 charity single CD produced by Tetsuya Komuro, one of Japan's most prolific and successful producer. The release of her first album, AFFECTION was produced by Max Matsuura, and contains remixes by Hex Hector and Jonathan Peters.

After her phenomenal success, Koda Kumi joined Squaresoft for the recording - the theme song (1000 no Kotoba) and opening song (real Emotion) for Final Fantasy X-2! In addition to her singing career, Koda also models for Christian Dior in Japan.