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Omg how did you get this interview?! She’s literally an icon in Japan and was the pioneer for mixed race acts period. I love how down to earth she continues to be considering what she did for the Japanese music industry at such a young age. We love you Crystal. Her new single called Love Yourself is a whole bop too!!!
That's not true. She's well known, and I really like her, but she's not an icon nor a pioneer for biracial performers in Japan. There have been plenty of biracial performers in the entertainment industry, even way back in the Showa era.
@@TheAerialgreen You say not an icon or a pioneer, as though there can only be one in music history? It's a strange and negative take to have. When it comes to 2000s j-pop and r&b, and Black people singing in Japan Crystal is absolutely an icon and one of the most well known impactful artists.
@@TheAerialgreen if that’s the case, name them. Other than Crystal Kay, I can’t think of anybody else, let alone anyone who’d be deemed as iconic as a biracial artist in Japan.
Crystal is so right about Japan being self-sufficient and not as hungry for global success, which is valid, but at the same time Japan / J-pop has so many talented artists and art forms that I believe deserve worldwide recognition!! I recently got into Psychic Fever from Exile Tribe because they went viral on TikTok. They also have a half Nigerian member and half moroccan/korean member who definitely would be popular in the west.
I thought for a long time that Japan has so many top-tier artists as good as Korea that the rest of the world should know about but yea I've also heard that Japan makes already a lot of profit from their own people so they don't necessarily need to go global I also think there is more diversity in Japanese mainstream in both genres and more people of other races without changing their natural looks
Agreed, most artists that people know come from anime. Thankfully, I got introduced to Creepy Nuts, Ado, and more, which got me into their music. I wish people knew more about them. I learned about One Ok in high school, listening to a shuffle music playlist on UA-cam. Also, same with Psychic Fever.
@@moglom93 Plus Japanese corporations ACTIVELY struck down stuff on UA-cam for years and years, especially Avex. So it was very hard for international fandoms to get into it and spread it around like K-pop did.
Crystal Kay was so important to me as a blasian kid I was lucky to find her album over 20 years ago thrifting in Amsterdam back then nobody was really into Japanese or Korean stuff (I used to blind buy Cd albums stuff from yesasia back then haha) I was really lucky finding her album so randomly artists like her and Yoon Mirea/Tasha made me so happy as I saw other blasian people in a pop culture I was into and there weren’t that many other blasians doing their thing. When it comes to representation of diversity this is such a better time for a lot of people and I hope it will get even better in the future!
I am Japanese and have been living in the United States since I was 15 years old. I can relate so much to what Crystal mentioned. If I hadn’t come to the U.S., I don’t think I would have realized how important it is for everyone to have self-confidence and maintain a positive mindset. Living here, I can’t remain the typical quiet Japanese person. I truly wish that in Japan, people were taught to be more confident and to embrace who they are. It’s okay to acknowledge your strengths and proudly say, ‘I’m good at this.’ Since becoming a mother, I’ve come to realize how much this attitude can impact children. In Japanese culture, when someone gives you a compliment, it’s common to deny it. For instance, if someone says, ‘You’re so cute,’ the typical response would be, ‘No, I’m not.’ In contrast, I was surprised to see how often parents in the U.S. openly compliment children. When children constantly hear this kind of self-denial, it can lead them to develop negative feelings about themselves, like thinking they’re not good enough, which undermines their confidence. I believe there are many wonderful aspects of Japanese culture, but I really wish we could adopt this aspect of American culture, where self-affirmation and confidence are encouraged.
I loved hearing this interview!!! I am Korean and black as well and learned about her wayyyyyyy back in the day and always wondered about her story but never found many interviews with her. Thank you for taking the time to spotlight her life and work!!! 🙏🏾
This interview brings me soooooo much joy! From the very start, you both do an amazing job contextualizing Crystal Kay's success and the unique experience of growing up in the South while finding representation through a budding platform like UA-cam. As someone from Alabama who often felt like an outsider but found solace in J-pop, Crystal Kay's music resonated deeply with me. I fell in love with her voice through Fullmetal Alchemist's ending theme, "Motherland," and seeing this interview brings back all the nostalgia. It’s incredible how something that once felt so niche is now normalized, yet the emotions still hit the same. Thank you for this gem!
OMG! Shouts out big time to everyone who made this interview happen. This interview has made my day. I love her. Kirakuni is one of my favorites on my stress release playlist. Keep up the great work!
Brought me back to my adolescence. I first learned about crystal kay through her m-flo colab cuz i was obsessed with m-flo at the time. Then i went on to follow her career, and she is definitely an amazing, talented pioneer with a beautiful voice. I would love to see her do more collabs with american artists. That would be so dope. And omg is it possible for her to be more gorgeous today than I remember 15 years ago??
This is such a great interview! I have always liked her voice and her songs mixed with a lot of English. Thanks a lot to both of you, Max and Crystal! Much kudos!! これからも応援してます〜
@@naotookamura6280 thanks same here, like I said in the video I first found her around 2004, so it was so great to finally make this happen 20 years later 🙏
I also immensely enjoyed watching your recent interviews with Joshua and Grace Aimi. It was so good that you brought out not-so-talked-about side of Joshua, like his high-school days in Niiza. That was hilarious. Look forward to watching more interesting interviews from you!
CKay is one of my favorite JPop artists. She along with Hikaru Utada and Jero was a big inspiration for me to start singing in Japanese. Two of my favorite CK songs are Goodbye my Darling and Kirakuni, the latter of which was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - Janet Jackson’s producers since Control. She also did an amazing interview for Shabera Night with Alicia Keys! 😊 it would be such a dream to watch her live!
35:35 anisongs is one way to do it. A LOT of big international tours are through their work in anime. There are exceptions of course like BabyMetal. Regardless her talent is undeniable and interviews like this help spread awareness her music even further!
Another fascinating and illuminating conversation. There is nothing quite like people's life-stories to connect with one's own path--no matter what our similarities and differences.
It was great seeing her. It's good to see her doing more interviews. I remember first listening to her song Candy. I really got into listening to Japanese music at the time because of her and Ken Hirai.
My college kids and I met her father in Costco of all places. He was a very nice man. We were looking at some Japanese cookies and he gave us some advice and we struck up a conversation about Japan. He was surprised but happy my kids knew who is daughter is.
Like Crystal. I grew up as a military dependent and attended Yamato/Yokota High Schools in the 70s. What was wonderful was the large number of bi-racial kids, dads who were US Military, along with Japanese kids who were getting an American style education. It was a melting pot of all kinds of nationalities. I grew up listening to JPOP along with American music. Even in the 70s there was a hafu(half) girl group called Golden Half with Japanese girls who were bi-racial. I got into Crystal in early 2000s and have loved all of her music. Thanks for this interview. She amazingly looks like she did over 20 years ago!
OMG I totally forgot Crystal Kay existed! I used to listen to her so much back then! And this vid randomly pops up reminding of her and her awesome music!!!
LOVE this interview!! Crystal is so cool and down to Earth! The "Asian don't raisin, Black don't crack" in Japanese was hilarious! Congratulations Crystal to 25 years!
I can listen to M-FLO 150 song album and be very happy. I am happy I seen this interview with Crystal K and to gain insight into her struggles and mindset. She accomplished a lot and I hope to listen to more of her songs. I pray for her safety and success.
Crystal Kay Williams is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories", Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, Almost Seventeen, which debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon charts. she usually sings with Namie Amuro, a JPop Queen. 💪💯💯 Crystal Kay was born in Yokohama, Japan, making her Japanese by birth.
I met Crystal once in NYC back in 2013. She was surprised I knew who she was, and she was really nice. I didn't want to bother her or come off as an annoying fan, so I just told her I loved her work and wished her a good night. It was at a party, and I ended up helping her find the bathroom, lol. I'm still sad I can't make it to her AWA performance this week because I can't afford to travel to Atlanta on short notice. I should've asked for a picture, but oh well, we live and learn. At least I got to meet her! I think I first discovered her around 2003 or 2004, when I was a young weeb. I found her music on a J-pop CD, I think it had 'Candy' on it. I also remember seeing her on a show called POP Japan TV on the International Channel, where they played the music video for 'Motherland.' A few months to a year later, I heard 'Motherland' again when it was featured in Full Metal Alchemist on Adult Swim.
I am a Black American with two Black parents and I remember discovering Crystal Kay led teenage me to feel a sense of belonging when I otherwise felt so alienated. I was never interested in things that people thought I should be interested in just because they’re stereotypically Black culture. I was interested in other cultures including Korean and Japanese, and Crystal Kay to me symbolized that I was welcome, I belonged, that cultures could mix and I had a place in these other cultures despite my skin color. I’m sure it must have been a heavy burden for her but looking back she did a lot for a lot of people just by existing and performing in the mainstream. 🙏🏾 Music = the world indeed and I love that today kids don’t have to get bullied by adults and peers alike simply for their interests and multicultural values.
Christal Kay is a B-I-G celebrity in Japan with many hit songs for decades. Wow, I didn't even know she spoke fluent English, haha. I'm in the US, double haha.
omg. listening this interview is like how my Japanese-American buddy talk. all the flipflopping from English to Japanse! We used to play a drinking game of making each other switch from English to Japanese or Japanese to English lol
Wow, I've used to listen to Crystal Kay since high school. Would love to see a future collab with Yoon Mirei who's also half Korean. Just my wishful thinking.
Avril Lavigne is our Canadian homegirl who has been an "inspiration in Japan" (Get it?! ANA callback!) for so many female Jpop idols. I hope she realizes that. And I hope these two have seen the Kim family version of APT! Jong-Un and his crazy sister rocking out! Better watch out Bruno and Rose!
Crystal Kay is one of my favorite Asian Singers....I've followed her career since I discovered her on Pop Japan TV back in 2004. We have a Japanese Event called JapanFest that happens every year here in Atlanta Georgia and I go every year hoping that she would be there 😢
Omg!!!!!! I used to listen to her music in middle school when back in the early 2000s when comcast had an Asian music section. So glad to see her! Her and dbsk were my intro to Asian pop music.
I found out about Crystal Kay when I was a senior in high school! We used to have The International Channel / AZN Television and I remember a show called Pop Japan TV. One episode was all about CK. I loved her music and her voice right then and there. I've followed her since 💚
I am not familiar with her music. I will be after today! She just seems like an overall good person and a positive representative of some of what Japan has to offer. Very cool! I am glad I stumbled across this interview. 🙌🏿
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who is she i dont even know her
you should do a better job of protecting your energy. You've got sneaky folks slipping behind your face fucking over your fans. 💫
Omg how did you get this interview?! She’s literally an icon in Japan and was the pioneer for mixed race acts period. I love how down to earth she continues to be considering what she did for the Japanese music industry at such a young age. We love you Crystal. Her new single called Love Yourself is a whole bop too!!!
That's not true. She's well known, and I really like her, but she's not an icon nor a pioneer for biracial performers in Japan. There have been plenty of biracial performers in the entertainment industry, even way back in the Showa era.
@@TheAerialgreen You say not an icon or a pioneer, as though there can only be one in music history? It's a strange and negative take to have. When it comes to 2000s j-pop and r&b, and Black people singing in Japan Crystal is absolutely an icon and one of the most well known impactful artists.
@@diskea Luckily became mutual friends with her High School friend 10 years ago, and he linked us up recently. Shout out to Colin! 😂
Crystal Kay was born in Yokohama, Japan, making her Japanese by birth.
@@TheAerialgreen if that’s the case, name them. Other than Crystal Kay, I can’t think of anybody else, let alone anyone who’d be deemed as iconic as a biracial artist in Japan.
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST MENTIONED!!!
@@Kojimochi might need to do a rewatch soon
Crystal is so right about Japan being self-sufficient and not as hungry for global success, which is valid, but at the same time Japan / J-pop has so many talented artists and art forms that I believe deserve worldwide recognition!! I recently got into Psychic Fever from Exile Tribe because they went viral on TikTok. They also have a half Nigerian member and half moroccan/korean member who definitely would be popular in the west.
I thought for a long time that Japan has so many top-tier artists as good as Korea that the rest of the world should know about but yea I've also heard that Japan makes already a lot of profit from their own people so they don't necessarily need to go global I also think there is more diversity in Japanese mainstream in both genres and more people of other races without changing their natural looks
Agreed, most artists that people know come from anime. Thankfully, I got introduced to Creepy Nuts, Ado, and more, which got me into their music. I wish people knew more about them. I learned about One Ok in high school, listening to a shuffle music playlist on UA-cam. Also, same with Psychic Fever.
@@moglom93 Plus Japanese corporations ACTIVELY struck down stuff on UA-cam for years and years, especially Avex. So it was very hard for international fandoms to get into it and spread it around like K-pop did.
@@Karzeon oh really? I didn't know about that but I do think Japan can be quite exclusive so a lot of things doesn’t reach the rest of the world
no they wouldnt there chopped
Crystal Kay was so important to me as a blasian kid I was lucky to find her album over 20 years ago thrifting in Amsterdam back then nobody was really into Japanese or Korean stuff (I used to blind buy Cd albums stuff from yesasia back then haha) I was really lucky finding her album so randomly artists like her and Yoon Mirea/Tasha made me so happy as I saw other blasian people in a pop culture I was into and there weren’t that many other blasians doing their thing. When it comes to representation of
diversity this is such a better time for a lot of people and I hope it will get even better in the future!
Wow, I feel old. I remember listening to that rewind song she did with Mflo years ago. Thanks for this.
Yep, same here that was years ago as in 2003!
Oh yeah rewind is great I love that song❤
I am Japanese and have been living in the United States since I was 15 years old. I can relate so much to what Crystal mentioned. If I hadn’t come to the U.S., I don’t think I would have realized how important it is for everyone to have self-confidence and maintain a positive mindset. Living here, I can’t remain the typical quiet Japanese person. I truly wish that in Japan, people were taught to be more confident and to embrace who they are. It’s okay to acknowledge your strengths and proudly say, ‘I’m good at this.’
Since becoming a mother, I’ve come to realize how much this attitude can impact children. In Japanese culture, when someone gives you a compliment, it’s common to deny it. For instance, if someone says, ‘You’re so cute,’ the typical response would be, ‘No, I’m not.’ In contrast, I was surprised to see how often parents in the U.S. openly compliment children. When children constantly hear this kind of self-denial, it can lead them to develop negative feelings about themselves, like thinking they’re not good enough, which undermines their confidence.
I believe there are many wonderful aspects of Japanese culture, but I really wish we could adopt this aspect of American culture, where self-affirmation and confidence are encouraged.
You Rock!!🎉🙏🥇💪💯😻🌸😎🎈🧧
CRYSTAL KAY IS A LEGEND. all of her songs are amazing. stream her on spotify!!!
She’s on Apple Music too!
omg crystal kay, what a gem. i really love her song Konna ni Chikaku de
That was my JAM in my teens 😂 Her voice is so beautiful.
This Queen is so influential and amazing that sometimes we forget she’s also an individual with her own challenges. Love this interview.
I loved hearing this interview!!! I am Korean and black as well and learned about her wayyyyyyy back in the day and always wondered about her story but never found many interviews with her. Thank you for taking the time to spotlight her life and work!!! 🙏🏾
This interview brings me soooooo much joy! From the very start, you both do an amazing job contextualizing Crystal Kay's success and the unique experience of growing up in the South while finding representation through a budding platform like UA-cam. As someone from Alabama who often felt like an outsider but found solace in J-pop, Crystal Kay's music resonated deeply with me. I fell in love with her voice through Fullmetal Alchemist's ending theme, "Motherland," and seeing this interview brings back all the nostalgia. It’s incredible how something that once felt so niche is now normalized, yet the emotions still hit the same. Thank you for this gem!
That song came to mind as soon as I saw her name!!
Wow so cool you were able to interview Crystal Kay!
Thankfully a mutual friend who went to high school with her linked us up! Shout out to Collin haha
The way I cried. I LOVE Crystal Kay!!!
Thank you for bringing one of my favorite singers from high school (‘09 baby!)
She went platinum in my black household!!!!
Love your interview with one of my favorite singers. I turned 71 today and it's a great way to start my day. Well done Max. Well done.
I love how you started out the interview... it seemed like you were both so at ease. Awesome video.
The quality of this interview! You really outdid yourself this time max!
OMG! Shouts out big time to everyone who made this interview happen. This interview has made my day. I love her. Kirakuni is one of my favorites on my stress release playlist. Keep up the great work!
OMG I grew up listening to & watching Crystal Kay everywhere!!! Love her so much!!!
Same same! Time to go on a music binge!
@@MaxDCapo You have no idea!!! I would listen to like her CDs till like 6am in the morning when I was in college 🤣🤣🤣
Brought me back to my adolescence. I first learned about crystal kay through her m-flo colab cuz i was obsessed with m-flo at the time. Then i went on to follow her career, and she is definitely an amazing, talented pioneer with a beautiful voice. I would love to see her do more collabs with american artists. That would be so dope. And omg is it possible for her to be more gorgeous today than I remember 15 years ago??
H O L Y C O W! You landed an interview with Crystal Kay?! Congrats, Max!
Crystal ❤ we met her in NY a few years ago she's an icon and a queen ❤
ケイちゃん、25周年おめでとう！！
This is such a great interview! I have always liked her voice and her songs mixed with a lot of English. Thanks a lot to both of you, Max and Crystal! Much kudos!! これからも応援してます〜
@@naotookamura6280 thanks same here, like I said in the video I first found her around 2004, so it was so great to finally make this happen 20 years later 🙏
I also immensely enjoyed watching your recent interviews with Joshua and Grace Aimi. It was so good that you brought out not-so-talked-about side of Joshua, like his high-school days in Niiza. That was hilarious. Look forward to watching more interesting interviews from you!
THANK YOU so much for this interview. Love, love, *loved* it! Tysm for the interview with Crystal Kay. 💕
CKay is one of my favorite JPop artists. She along with Hikaru Utada and Jero was a big inspiration for me to start singing in Japanese. Two of my favorite CK songs are Goodbye my Darling and Kirakuni, the latter of which was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - Janet Jackson’s producers since Control. She also did an amazing interview for Shabera Night with Alicia Keys! 😊 it would be such a dream to watch her live!
35:35 anisongs is one way to do it. A LOT of big international tours are through their work in anime. There are exceptions of course like BabyMetal.
Regardless her talent is undeniable and interviews like this help spread awareness her music even further!
You're so lucky to have a chance for an interview with her. She is such a great singer. I like her the way she is.
Another fascinating and illuminating conversation. There is nothing quite like people's life-stories to connect with one's own path--no matter what our similarities and differences.
She’s so cool ! Great interview 🙏
She is so cooool!! Great interview Max 🎉
She is and so are you!!
Crystal Kay! I remember hearing her songs on a Japanese tv program when I used to live in NY!
She's awesome!
It was great seeing her. It's good to see her doing more interviews. I remember first listening to her song Candy. I really got into listening to Japanese music at the time because of her and Ken Hirai.
My college kids and I met her father in Costco of all places. He was a very nice man. We were looking at some Japanese cookies and he gave us some advice and we struck up a conversation about Japan. He was surprised but happy my kids knew who is daughter is.
I love her speaking voice and her laugh! Reminds me of late night DJs I used to listen to as a kid.
Like Crystal. I grew up as a military dependent and attended Yamato/Yokota High Schools in the 70s. What was wonderful was the large number of bi-racial kids, dads who were US Military, along with Japanese kids who were getting an American style education. It was a melting pot of all kinds of nationalities. I grew up listening to JPOP along with American music. Even in the 70s there was a hafu(half) girl group called Golden Half with Japanese girls who were bi-racial. I got into Crystal in early 2000s and have loved all of her music. Thanks for this interview. She amazingly looks like she did over 20 years ago!
Product of Japanese Female + White Male
i've been a fan of crystal kay since basically her debut! her music never disappoints and i wish more people knew about her!
THISSS INTERVIEWWWWWW! Sitting down to watch now in full excitement❤️
It is amazing how you could get this interview. 羨ましい
I been listening to Crystal Kay for 20 years, I'm glad this interview found me
She's super cool and chill, and seems friendly and approachable. I haven't heard her since the original Fullmetal Alchemist
This is incredible! Crystal is such an icon. One of the best!
Omg such a fun interview!! ^^
I remember her when I lived in Japan 20 years ago. She still looks flipping amazing! She was so popular. Great singer.
恋に落ちたら♩を毎日聴いてました。切ない思い出が蘇ります
Crystal Kay is so cool, congrats.
THE VOICE AND FASHION INSPO OF MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS AAAAAAAAGH
OMG I totally forgot Crystal Kay existed! I used to listen to her so much back then! And this vid randomly pops up reminding of her and her awesome music!!!
LOVE this interview!! Crystal is so cool and down to Earth! The "Asian don't raisin, Black don't crack" in Japanese was hilarious! Congratulations Crystal to 25 years!
Her english is pretty easy to catch. I love her music much as well especially Kirakuni
I can listen to M-FLO 150 song album and be very happy. I am happy I seen this interview with Crystal K and to gain insight into her struggles and mindset. She accomplished a lot and I hope to listen to more of her songs. I pray for her safety and success.
Crystal Kay Williams is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories", Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, Almost Seventeen, which debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon charts. she usually sings with Namie Amuro, a JPop Queen. 💪💯💯 Crystal Kay was born in Yokohama, Japan, making her Japanese by birth.
She’s Japanese by birth but has no Japanese roots though…
@@Kev27RSdoes this really matter? She is an amazing artist first!
I met Crystal once in NYC back in 2013. She was surprised I knew who she was, and she was really nice. I didn't want to bother her or come off as an annoying fan, so I just told her I loved her work and wished her a good night. It was at a party, and I ended up helping her find the bathroom, lol. I'm still sad I can't make it to her AWA performance this week because I can't afford to travel to Atlanta on short notice. I should've asked for a picture, but oh well, we live and learn. At least I got to meet her! I think I first discovered her around 2003 or 2004, when I was a young weeb. I found her music on a J-pop CD, I think it had 'Candy' on it. I also remember seeing her on a show called POP Japan TV on the International Channel, where they played the music video for 'Motherland.' A few months to a year later, I heard 'Motherland' again when it was featured in Full Metal Alchemist on Adult Swim.
REEEWIND! was such a bop for me
Shes a great inspiration for me as a foreigner that wants to be a singer in Japan.❤
I am a Black American with two Black parents and I remember discovering Crystal Kay led teenage me to feel a sense of belonging when I otherwise felt so alienated. I was never interested in things that people thought I should be interested in just because they’re stereotypically Black culture. I was interested in other cultures including Korean and Japanese, and Crystal Kay to me symbolized that I was welcome, I belonged, that cultures could mix and I had a place in these other cultures despite my skin color. I’m sure it must have been a heavy burden for her but looking back she did a lot for a lot of people just by existing and performing in the mainstream. 🙏🏾 Music = the world indeed and I love that today kids don’t have to get bullied by adults and peers alike simply for their interests and multicultural values.
Christal Kay is a B-I-G celebrity in Japan with many hit songs for decades. Wow, I didn't even know she spoke fluent English, haha. I'm in the US, double haha.
CRYSTAL KAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS
I absolutely love her since I can remember. I wish they know more about her here. She's beautiful.
I LOVE CRYSTAL KAY SO MUCHHHHHH
omg. listening this interview is like how my Japanese-American buddy talk. all the flipflopping from English to Japanse! We used to play a drinking game of making each other switch from English to Japanese or Japanese to English lol
I hope she’ll be able to tour America one day and I can afford it 😢
I've been listening to her for over a decade
Please interview Yuna Ito!! I would love to see that ❤
Wow she makes the Japanese language sound so awesome ❤❤❤
Really interesting ! Some very funny moments !
I fell in love with her when she performed “Motherland”
Her voice is surprisingly beautiful.
I love Crystal Kay!
Her song Kirakuni is such a bop! It’s like one of her only English songs. It could’ve been a big RnB hit in America too when it came out
So dope to see this
Wow, I've used to listen to Crystal Kay since high school. Would love to see a future collab with Yoon Mirei who's also half Korean. Just my wishful thinking.
I used to play basketball with her pops at lunch time back in the day. He was the first person I knew with a 700 series BMW
We love you here in the U.S.
I wish she would do a U.S tour.
Avril Lavigne is our Canadian homegirl who has been an "inspiration in Japan" (Get it?! ANA callback!)
for so many female Jpop idols. I hope she realizes that. And I hope these two have seen the Kim family
version of APT! Jong-Un and his crazy sister rocking out! Better watch out Bruno and Rose!
Crystal Kay is one of my favorite Asian Singers....I've followed her career since I discovered her on Pop Japan TV back in 2004. We have a Japanese Event called JapanFest that happens every year here in Atlanta Georgia and I go every year hoping that she would be there 😢
Crystal Kay and Utada Hikaru were my intro to Jpop when I was in my early twenties! It’s so nice to see her again!🎉
I've been a fan of her for ages I played Almost Seventeen everyday when I was turning 17
I have every one of her CDs Crystal Style is the dopest album and her mflo Collab are pure butter
Omg!!!!!! I used to listen to her music in middle school when back in the early 2000s when comcast had an Asian music section. So glad to see her! Her and dbsk were my intro to Asian pop music.
Wow what a beautiful soul Crystal has❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember discovering her from Pop Japan TV back in the day. How time flies!
I remember first hearing her because of M-Flo. Still love her!
I found out about Crystal Kay when I was a senior in high school! We used to have The International Channel / AZN Television and I remember a show called Pop Japan TV. One episode was all about CK. I loved her music and her voice right then and there. I've followed her since 💚
She's aged somehow backwards in 25 years! I remember seeing her on tv when I was on exhanged in Fukuoka when I was 16. I'm... not 16 now. haha!
My favorite song from her is motherland ending of FMA ❤❤ love her voice ❤❤
I graduated the same univsersity. And I am so proud of you!
Great interview ❤❤❤❤❤
Oh my gosh I love Crystal Kay!
Why does Wikipedia wrongly list this person as 38 years old?
The QUEEN!!!!!
Anyone else remember her from the ending theme song of Nodame Cantabile.. I still listen to that song till this day ❤ Much love from South Africa 😊
Ahh took me a few weeks to get to this but thanks a lot
Thanks for circling back around to watch it! :)
「LOST CHILD」が大好きすぎる
As a long time fan of JPop , its nice to see someone who kinda looks like me doing big things in the JPOP scene
Crystal Kay ❤🎉 Oh my god 🎶
Kayちゃんは日本の誇りであり宝物。
日本人の血が入って無いとか関係なく立派な日本人だとみんな思ってると思うので、逆に彼女が気にしてた事に驚き!
We love Crystal💕
I am not familiar with her music. I will be after today! She just seems like an overall good person and a positive representative of some of what Japan has to offer. Very cool! I am glad I stumbled across this interview. 🙌🏿