Name: Hamasaki Ayumi (浜崎あゆみ), Hamazaki Kurumi (浜崎クルミ) the name that she used for her model-actress career

| Birth Name: Hamasaki Ayumi (濱崎歩)
| Nicknames: Ayu（あゆ／アユ） also see CREA)
| Birth Date: October 2, 1978
| Birth Place: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
| Blood Type: A
| Height: 156cm (5′1″)
| Weight: 40kg (88.18 lbs)
| Measurements: 80cm-53cm-82cm (31.5 in-20.9 in-32.3 in)
| Favorite Artists: KEIKO (globe), Miyazawa Rie, Matsuda Seiko, Babyface, and En Vogue.
| Favorite City: New York
| Favorite Actors: Nicolas Cage, Miyazawa Rie
| Favorite Movies: The Bodyguard, Betty Blue, Leaving Las Vegas
| People I Respect: People who have things I don’t have.
| People I Dislike: Liars, people who don’t say hello.
| Current Interest: Collecting white things for my room
| Favorite Food: Biscuits, cakes, chocolates, kimchi (Korean marinated cabbage)
| Favorite Things to Read: Most of the fashion magazines. Modern-language translations of the Manyo tanka poems are especially interesting. Poems of Giniro Natsuo, Aida Mitsuo, etc.
| Lessons: Piano, Japanese calligraphy (5th rank), abacus calculation, Japanese flower arrangement, Kumon-shiki study system.

Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎 あゆみ, Hamasaki Ayumi?, also 浜崎歩, born October 2, 1978) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former actress. Also called Ayu by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the “Empress of Pop” due to her popularity and widespread influence in Japan. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to pursue a career in entertainment. In 1998, under the tutelage of Avex CEO Max Matsuura, she released a string of modestly selling singles that concluded with her 1999 debut album A Song for XX, which debuted atop the Oricon charts and stayed there for four weeks, establishing her popularity in Japan.