Koda Kumi made her debut in late 2000, but it wasn’t until 2002 that her debut album, affection, made its way onto the scene. She has only recently started to gain some more wide-spread popularity, thanks to her appearing on the Japanese soundtrack of Final Fantasy X-2, her fresh Urban music style, her revealing photo-shoots as well as her “12 Days of Christmas” wide-scale releases of one single every week starting in December 2005. She has also been named by Oricon as the top seller of Japan in 2006 and 2007. She is misono’s older sister.
