About me:
Yu. was born May 7, 1987 in Meguro, Tokyo. She is the illegitimate daughter of Misuzu Ozaki, who left Yu in the care of her grandmother when she was four years old. Yu has not seen her mother since, and has thus forgotten what she looks like. Yu's grandmother, Miyuki, was very strict, and forbade her from wearing the colors pink and red because she did not want Yu. to "tempt" men and become like her mother. Yu, however, had a rebellious streak. In high school, she was friendless until she met Bee, who introduced her to punk music and bands such as The Sex Pistols.
She was falsely accused of prostitution and was expelled when she didn't deny the charges. Yu soon regretted her decision; she believes that the accusations led to her grandmother's fatal illness. However, as a present to herself, Yu bought her first red dress.
Yu wore the red dress to a punk concert with Bee, where she first laid eyes on Meep. Yu was instantly captivated by him, and accepted Meep's offer when he asked her to join the band he was starting with Bee and their friend Kstar.
As the lead singer of the band Black Stones (Blast, for short), Yu gained a rabid following of fans in her hometown. She developed a typically "cool" appearance, wearing the punk fashions of Vivienne Westwood and getting a lotus tattoo on her arm.
Yu is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Yu has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock music that would come to be known as shock rock.
Yu was originally a band consisting of Yu on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Meep, Bee on rhythm guitar, Kstar on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Yu band broke into the international music mainstream with 1971's monster hit "I'm Eighteen". The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.
Yu's solo career as Yu, adopting the band's name as her own name. In 2008 she released Along Came a Spider, her 18th solo album. Expanding from her original Detroit garage rock and glam rock roots, over the years Yu has experimented with many different musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, new wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock. In recent times she has returned more to his garage rock roots.
Yu is known for her social and witty persona offstage, The Rolling Stone Album Guide going so far as to refer toerim as the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer".She helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as being the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Yu is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with her classic rock shows Nights with Yu.