Yuko Ando

Yuko Ando is a good example of the post-Ayumi Hamasaki generation of J-pop singers. She's not content to leave her career in the hands of her managers, being a singer/songwriter and working on her own covers, booklets, and promo video herself, and she's also persistent enough to eventually score high on the charts even though her early stabs at success went nowhere. Ando initially intended to be a film director, and scored small roles in 2000s movies Mamotte Agetai and Saimin, as well as the series Ikebukuro West Get Park, but it was her singing that impressed Koike Soukou, th...