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Awich
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, known professionally as , is a Japanese hip hop artist. She made her major label debut with Universal Music Japan in 2020. Her stage name is short for "Asian wish child," which is the literal meaning of the Japanese characters in her given name.
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Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Akiko Urasaki, known professionally as Awich, is a Japanese hip-hop artist. She made her major label debut with Universal Music Japan in 2020. Her stage name is short for "Asian wish child", which is the literal meaning of the Japanese characters in her given name.
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- Badly in Love — Self - Emcee2025
- Awich - Queendom -THE UNION- at K-Arena Yokohama — Self2024
- Lightning Over the Beyond — Amy2023
- AREA OF DIAMOND — Self2023
- RADWIMPS - FOREVER IN THE DAZE TOUR 2021-20222023
- 1446: An Eternal Minute — Reiko2022
- my name is2022
- Asia Rising: The Next Generation of Hip-Hop — Self2019
- RAPSTAR — Examiner2017
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1986
Discography
- Inner Research2006
- Asian Wish Child2007
- 82017
- What You Want2018
- Beat2018
- Heart2018
- 孔雀2020
- Shook Shook2020
- Bad Bad2020
- Partition2020
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Awich is a female hip-hop artist from Okinawa, Japan. Born Akiko (亜希子) Urasaki, “AWICH” is short for “Asia Wish Child,” which is the meaning of her given name. An artist, poet, and director, Awich is a product of an intensely mixed history and culture. After graduating from high school in Okinawa, she studied in the United States, during which period she married and had a child with an American. Tragically, he was murdered in an incident after her graduation. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Naha
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Universal Music LLC
- Official website
- awich.jp
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- Awich from "Lightning Over the Beyond" at Red Carpet of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2022 (52461523415).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1986-12-16
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- Awich
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
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- 567000
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, known professionally as , is a Japanese hip hop artist. She made her major label debut with Universal Music Japan in 2020. Her stage name is short for "Asian wish child," which is the literal meaning of the Japanese characters in her given name.
==Early life and education== Awich was born in Naha, Okinawa on December 16, 1986. Because Okinawa is home to many U.S. military bases, Awich was exposed to American culture at an early age. As a young girl, she idolized Tupac and credits Tupac songs with helping her learn English. She wrote her first lyrics at age 13, and gave her first public hip hop performance at age 14. At age 19, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she met and married an American husband and gave birth to a daughter. She also earned a bachelor's degree in business and marketing from the University of Indianapolis in 2011. However, her husband was incarcerated and later was murdered after his release from prison, at which point Awich returned to Japan with her daughter.
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