Chara is a Actor and Theme Song Performance Japonaise born on 13 january 1968 at Kawaguchi City (Japon)
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Birth name Miwa SatōNationality JaponBirth 13 january 1968 (57 years) at Kawaguchi City (
Japon)
Miwa Watabiki (綿引美和, Watabiki Miwa) (born January 13, 1968), better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single Heaven. She is most well known for her song "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film Swallowtail Butterfly (in which she starred), her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine. She is known for her unique whisper voice vocal technique while singing. Biography
In 1994, Chara married actor Tadanobu Asano. She met Asano on the set of the 1994 film Picnic, in which they were both starring actors. Chara gave birth to a daughter, Sumire (菫), on July 4, 1995. Chara had a second child with Asano; she gave birth to a son on December 19, 1999, and named him Himi (緋美).
The couple attended the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2008, as the film Mongol, in which Asano starred, was nominated for the best foreign film category as the submission from Kazakhstan.
On July 25, 2009, Chara announced her amicable divorce from husband Asano Tadanobu, after fourteen years of marriage.
Chara has two tattoos: a blue bird on her back, and a sumire flower (菫, Fuji Dawn Viola) on her neck.
Chara's children feature in her music. Sumire features on the cover of her album Honey, which also has a track named after her.
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