Yu Hayami

You Hayami (早見 優, Hayami Yū^?) is a J-pop singer and TV actress in Japan. In 2011, the Japanese music television program Music Station listed her as the 50th all-time best-selling idol in Japan, with 2,850,000 records sold.

Hayami was born in Atami, Shizuoka on 2 September 1966. Her real name was Kazumi Fukuda (福田 一美, Fukuda Kazumi^?); née Kazumi Tateno before marriage. After her parents divorced, her family name changed to Inoue (井上^?). Hayami's father is also a jazz singer, so she went abroad and was raised in Guam and Hawaii from the age of 3 to 14 years old. Hayami studied mostly in Japan. After graduating from Horikoshi High School in 1986, she entered Sophia University, majoring in comparative culture research.

In 1982, Hayami gained her J-pop singer's debut with the single "Isoide Hatsukoi" (ASAP, my first love!) In 1983, she released her fifth single, "Natsu Iro no Nancy" (Summer Coloured Nancy), as a campaign song for a Coca-Cola commercial. And she became a cover girl of that. The Single became into her first Big Hit.

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