MiChi (born Michiko Sellars, on April 7, 1985 in Birmingham, England) is a Japanese pop singer of English-Japanese ancestry. When she was two, her family moved to Kobe, Japan before returning to England in 1995. Determined to be a singer, she performed in an acoustic duo, and soon after returned to Japan when she was 18. The following year she met Tomokazu Matsuzawa (producer for acts such as Mika Nakashima, Miliyah Kato, SOULHEAD and CHEMISTRY). The pair worked together for three years developing her talent before MiChi entered Japan’s dance club scene. In 2007, she released the track “Surrender” on a dance compilation which was followed a year later with her independently released English LP, “MiChi Madness.” The album saw chart topping dance hits and a long chart life.
In 2008 a slightly remixed version of ‘Promise’ appeared in commercials for Japanese cell phone provider, NTT docomo. The original version reached a peak of 12 in the Oricon weekly charts later on. ‘Promise’, along with other singles ‘Change the world’, ‘Kiss Kiss xxx’ and ‘You’ appeared on her debut album, ‘Up To You’, released on 30 September 2009. It reached a peak of 4 on the Oricon weekly charts, selling 53,000 copies. most recently her latest single, ‘Something Missing’ was featured in commercials for the 2010 video game, Bayonetta. |
