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Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru (Hikki to her fans - ohmygod that makes me cringe...I dont call her that! ^-^) is one of the most successful artists in Japan at the moment. Though born and raised in the US, at 16 she released a string of singles and the album First Love in Japan, which sold around 10 million copies, making it the best-selling album in Japanese history.
She has since released two more albums, Distance and Deep River which have also been immensely popular.

In September of 2002, Hikaru married Kiriya Kazuaki, a photographer who directed a number of Hikaru's music videos (including Final Distance) and photographed some of her CD jackets.

Distance
The original version of Distance appears on the album Distance. While is about two people being apart, its an upbeat, cute little song.

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Final Distance
Final Distance the single was released on 25th June 2001 and later appeared on the album Deep River. This version of the song has been slowed to a beautiful, very melancholy sounding ballad.
Originally Hikaru was planning to release Distance as a single but around that time a mentally disturbed man brutally killed a couple of children at a school in Osaka. In memory of this Hikaru decided to rework the song into a ballad with some small lyric changes and it became Final Distance.

Single information:
Final Distance
01. Final Distance
02. Distance - PLANITb Remix -
03. Distance - m-flo remix -
04. Distance
05. Distance - Karaoke
06. Final Distance - Instrumental -

The video for Final Distance was directed by Hikaru's now husband, Kiriya Kazuaki. If you would like to see the video you can buy the dvd of UH2 (Hikaru's second video clip collection). It includes the making of the video as well.

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