Yoshioka Yui was born on March 26, 1987.

She is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-

instrumentalist, composer, actress and radio personality. Born and raised in Fukuoka prefecture,
she played live at various locations in her hometown before being noticed by Sony Music Japan
when she was 17 years old and released her debut single months later. However her singles were
only met with moderate success until her breakout "Good-bye Days", which charted for 44 weeks
on Oricon and marked her as one of the Japanese music industry's rising stars.
Since her debut album, From Me to You, each of her albums has topped the charts, and has
had at least one single reach number one yearly since 2007, including five straight from mid-2008
to late-2010.
She is popular in Japan and in surrounding countries, ranking number one in 2011 Count Down TV
"Dearest Female Artist" and Music Station "Artist You Most Want to Marry" polls, as well as Radio
Television Hong Kong's "Most Popular Japanese Artist".

Early life
Yui was born in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. The Associated Press has reported that her full name
is Yui Yoshioka. She grew up in a single-parent family as her father left her mother when she was
three. She stated that she had always been close to music, as she would remember the beats
from music she heard on the radio, and be able to sing it. By the time she was in elementary
school she thought she would like to become a singer.
Self-described as shy and horrible at talking to others as a child, she would play outside by herself
in mountains, rivers, by the sea and in rice paddies. During her third year in primary school, she
was influenced by her mother to begin writing a journal of her feelings and tried to compose
them into poems. By the time Yui attended high school, she began to write songs, thinking of that
as being able to express herself little by little. While in high school, she worked part-time at a
Chinese restaurant to help pay for tuition. Yet, between music, school and work, she only had
one or two hours of sleep, and believed she no longer had the time to realize her dreams of a
music career. She subsequently became ill; however, it was at the hospital that she was
overwhelmed with the desire to make music and finally decided that school and music could
not coexist.
Soon after leaving the hospital, she got a chance to see her first live street performance. She
expressed a desire to pursue a musical career to the band, Bianco Nero, at the end of the
concert. The band advised Yui to join a private music school, juku. Despite the social norm of
finishing school in Japan and discouragement from her teachers, Yui did not hesitate to drop out
of high school and began to study guitar and songwriting at the music cram school "Voice" in her
hometown of Fukuoka. Aspiring to become a professional, she took to street performing at
Fukuoka's Tenjin Station. These street performances helped Yui to overcome her shyness.

Description
Her artist name is YUI. Her height is 155cm. Shes slim. She has a long brown hair. She doesnt like
smiling because she thinks it makes her look fat face. Her blood type is AB. Shes single. Her
hobbies: watch movies, read, play her acoustic guitar and play badminton. Her favourites
places are Shingu Beach and Niimiya Sea. Occasionally she will smile and it seems very genuine
but also not overly happy. She seems to think very carefully about what she is trying to say but
not necessarily how she is going to say it. She talks about how she started off singing for herself
and her focus was on her own inner feelings that she wanted to "let out".
Yui's family consists of her mother and herself only. As for her father, he left them when she was
roughly 3 years old. That's why when she moved to Shinguu she only had one other family
member. She holds no memory of her father. It is unknown if her father is stil alive.
Yui plays drums and piano. She learned how to play the piano at the music school where she
learned how to play the guitar. Yui has about 7~8 acoustic guitars, 6~7 electric guitars and one
bass guitar. Yui likes Marimokkori. Yui is "addicted" to Welch's Grape Fruit Juice. She drank this
during the recording of the album I Loved Yesterday. Yui doesn't smile in CD covers and
promotion videos (except for I Remember You, Che.R.Ry and Laugh away) often because she
thinks her face looks chubby when she smiles.