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Anna Tsuchiya BIO
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Anna Tsuchiya is one of Japan's most recognized young stars. Model, mother, actress and singer: Tsuchiya is living her life her own way. She was born in Tokyo in 1984 to a Japanese mother and an American father.She has an older sister called Angela, who is a model as well.
As a teenager, Anna started modeling, gracing the pages of fashion magazines. That later led to an acting career, starring in such movies as "Kamikaze Girls" and "Sakuran."
Tsuchiya was scouted by Seventeen magazine at age 14 to start a modelling career. Her demand as a model grew, and by 2002 she was doing television ads for UNIQLO, Edwin, and KOSE products. Even though she got involved in other projects afterwards, she today still remains an in-demand model for magazines like Kera, Soup, Zipper, and other youth punk fashion magazines.
On August 24, 2005 she released her first mini-album, Taste My Beat under Avex's sub-label, Mad Pray Records. Then released her first single Change your life and the second single called Slap that Naughty Body / My Fate.Tsuchiya made her first overseas appearance at the Japan Expo in Paris, France in July 2006.More recently, Anna been taking to the stage, as a punk rock singer.
"My music might have an image of being 'hard' but in fact it expresses human emotions. So it is different from the surface image and it expresses deeper messages which have emerged from inside, " she said.
With her twin career as actress and singer, she has become something of a role model for young Japanese, especially as her life and work are far removed from the traditional role for Japanese women.
Since becoming a mother three years ago, Tsuchiya has developed a more mature attitude to life: "What has changed very much is that I before I had my baby I lived just for myself. But now the child is more important than myself."
Her more sanguine attitude was compounded by tragedy when her ex-husband died in May 2008. "Death is a sad thing but it has to happen and time can never be reversed. I happen to think that when I die I don't want to see people around weeping forever. I think he would have felt the same way," she told reporter.
"So if I had been caught up with sorrow he would have been upset. Rather than being overcome, I say I accept the reality."
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