Namie Amuro performs during the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo on Tuesday night. The awards honor the best-selling recording artists from around the world. Amuro, 32, who was the first Asian woman ever to appear at the awards, performed her hit "Hide & Seek." The award for Best Asian Artist was presented to her by Paris Hilton. The ceremony was hosted by "Avatar" star Michelle Rodriguez, and honored the likes of Jennifer Lopez, the Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga.
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my2sense
Best Asian Artist.......:s Do they have Best African, European, Australian???
Bambigirl
Congratulations Namie! I'm a big fan of yours!
koriyamaboy
She gets better looking with age! Especially like her cola ad on the vending machines.
fukuyama
Forever fans for namie
she sings great, dance great
I luv her since body feels exit
nath
She rocks! I agree, I love the vending machine pix of her. This pic is not so great, but she is awesome!
tMMt
Yes
IronBeard
Who can write the best caption about the backing dancers?
NationalistRE
How long ago were the days when she was referred to as 'that girl from the Super Monekeys who can actually sing"
herefornow
IMO the dancer behind her is much hotter.
DaveAllTogether
In this crappy picture; yes. Amuro is a hottie as anybody that has purchased a Coke from a vending machine in Japan knows.
my2sense
Just got it mate, cheers...
islandview
You can easily check out the website (or other news sites) for the list of award winners; Lady GaGa won many of the awards.
http://www.worldmusicawards.com/
@my2sense: Perhaps your computer cannot view the website, so for you:
Best Selling Artists From Around The World: Africa – Akon America – Lady Gaga Asia – Namie Amuro Australia – Empire Of The Sun Canada – Michael Buble France – David Guetta Germany – Rammstein Great Britain – Susan Boyle Ireland – U2 Italy – Tiziano Ferro Latin America – Shakira Middle East – Elissa Scandinavia – Ah-a Spain – Monica Noranjo
WOW. Ah-a is still around?? And, who is that Susan Boyle person from Great Britain??
my2sense
guess it goes by records sales in the actual region... ; )
islandview
@IronBeard at 01:50 PM JST - 20th May
The male dancer looks like he has done that move many times, and not just dancing on stage. The female dancer is riding high on her Harley, but with nasty torn leg stockings!
nylex4
this sort of pop 'porn' makes me laugh...
IvanCoughalot
One of the sexiest women in the country. Real talent. Might explain why she's hardly ever on TV - she acts like a woman and can do things.
bicultural
I didn't like her stuff when she was with TK, but her recent stuff is pretty good.
NeoJamal
There's a joke circulating around that all TK produced songs have the same chord progresions as "Get Wild"
meloveulongtime
like the commercial of her...32??? not bad!
cactusJack
A rip off of Janet Jackson costumes. How original.
thebottomline
I still am hooked on the song that goes "anata no kissu oh, kazue masho" by Misia.
kisekicaroline
amuro-chan is definitely one of my favorites! her backup dancers are sexy as hell! i wish i can watch her performance!!!
tkoind2
In a sea of no-talent J-pop I have to give credit to the few artists who do actually have talent. Namie is certainly one of them. Though I don't personally like her music. She is a star in all the right sense of the word. Good luck to her. Japan needs to roll out more people who do actually have talent and retire the legions of no-talent kawaii stuff cluttering up the airways.
blunderbuss
Namie is a cute young woman, but unfortunately for her, the photo puts her beside another young woman who is drop dead gorgeous. ...and who also has a great body.
techall
oops, make that Folk songs.
techall
@NeoJamal: About half the pop,rock,country,colk songs in the world have the same chord progression : 1-4-5-2seventh.
RobbieFowler
"WOW. Ah-a is still around?? And, who is that Susan Boyle person from Great Britain??"............hmmm who is susan boyle......not really sure if this person has any awareness of music or album sales in Europ or the US
Venetian
Yeah, she is alright, but still not quite as good as anything from the west.
Sarge
The guy on the left makes me laugh.
What's that thing on Namie's head?
Trapped
The back up dancer is either sponsored by a tissue company, or she stocked up on freebies in front of the station. And hot.
OssanAmerica
Which one?
HonestDictator
She's quite a good singer. I wish more J-pop stars could reach her singing abilities. This pic freaks me out though.
OssanAmerica
I never checked.
Wolfpack
I have never been a big fan of Amuro but she has had a long and successful career in Japan. It is also good to see Japanese artists in an international setting. As for the backup dancers, the dude looks like a zombie and the girl looks a bit like Debbie Harry - it's just a shame that she doesn't get paid enough to buy a new pair of stockings.
TSRnow
Cool! Real talent should get noticed. Not like the others in Japan who can't sing live! Obviously, the recording engineers are the real talents in Japan.
WOW, are they really? I wonder if they can still sing the high notes after all this time.
Susan Boyle... she must be enjoying this.
mokgohan
From the looks of the background dancers I'm guessing the name of the new single Namie's singing is... Imaginary Carousel?