JUJU

Born in Shōbara, a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, on 14 February 1976, Japanese jazz-pop luminary JUJU set her sights on jazz and began engaging with music from an early age. Her skills were honed while she was growing up in Kyoto, and at 18, she moved to the US to pursue her dreams. She began immersing herself in the rich sounds of the 1990s New York jazz scene and by 2002 was creating music for film, specifically the film Kyōki no Sakura. She took her first steps as a solo artist two years later with the single "Hikaru no Naka e" and simultaneously started to build a reputation back home in Japan, and her Japanese audience were particularly enamoured with her third single, "Kiseki o Nozomu nara." JUJU's debut album Wonderful Life arrived in 2007 with the follow-up What's Love? released by Sony Music Associated Records in 2009. However, it was with her third self-titled album of 2010 that people really started to take notice, particularly in Japan where she won the Excellence Album Award at the 52nd Japan Record Awards. She paid tribute to some of Japan's best-known female vocalists of the 1990s on the 2010 covers album Request and went on to release LPs at a steady rate over the course of a decade, taking in 2013's Delicious: Juju's Jazz 2nd Dish, 2015's What You Want, 2018's Delicious - Juju's Jazz 3rd Dish as well as 2020's Your Story. A new EP, Nagoriyuki / Aa Mujyou, saw the light in October 2023.

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