Official site:
http://columbia.jp/kaela/Blog:
http://kaela.jugem.jp/She is one artist that I want to be like.
She was Former Seventeen Japan model who achieved large popularity with her punk style songs.
Info
Name: Kimura Kaela (木村カエラ)
Birthdate: October 24, 1984
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Ethnicity: Half-Japanese, Half-English
Record Label : Nippon Columbia
Kaela Kimura was born to a Japanese mother and an English father. She is a famous teen model in Japan. She often models for Seventeen Magazine. She has co-hosted a Japanese vareity show called Saku Saku since 2003, and she just graduated form the program on March 31st 2006. She knows how to play piano and guitar and she release her first single Level 42 on 06/23/04. It debuted at number 12 on the weekly oricon charts. Since then she has released five other singles and two albums. Her newsest album Circle was released on March 18th, 2006 and placed 2nd on the weekly Oricon charts, just behind Koda Kumi's Best ~Second Session~. She has also starred in the movie Custom Made 10.30, and is also in the upcoming movie Kiraware Matsuko no Issho starring Bonnie Pink. Kaela's cover of Oh Pretty Woman is also the ending song for the dorama Attention Please.
A list of her stuff:
Albums
[2004.12.08] KAELA #8
[2006.03.08] Circle #2
Singles
[2004.06.23] Level 42 #14
[2004.10.27] happiness!!! #11
[2005.03.30] Real Life Real Heart (リルラ リルハ) #3
[2005.10.05] BEAT #7
[2006.01.18] You #7
[2006.06.28] Magic Music #7
[2006.09.06] TREE CLIMBERS
DVD/Videos
[2005.07.06] Kaela Kimura 4You 1st Tour 2005
Compilation / Other
[2005.03.16] LOVE for NANA ~Only 1 Tribute~ (Twinkle)
[2006.04.05] LAST DAYS - tribute to Mr.K - (Cloudy) by Kimura Kaela & FOE
[2006.05.24] 'Attention Please' Soundtrack ~OH PRETTY WOMAN~ (#1 'OH, PRTTY WOMAN', #19 'OH, PRETTY WOMAN Inst.Ver.')
[2006.05.24] Kiraware Matsuko no Utatach (#1 Thrill Thrill Licker)