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 ...