NPR's Tell Me More Interviews Utada Hikaru

Humberto Saabedra

ImageThe NPR radio program Tell Me More has a 12 minute interview with famed Japanese-American pop singer Utada Hikaru, who recently released her second English-language album This Is The One.

The interview serves as an introduction to the singer as she goes into detail about her life growing up between Japan and New York, being a pop star, and describing her poor experince with attending Columbia University in New York along with describing her goals for the new album.

The link includes selected full songs from the album as well as a podcast download.

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