Early life Yui
Yui was born in Fukuoka, Japan. The Associated Press has
reported that her full name is "Yui Yoshioka"but Yui and her record
label have not confirmed this. She grew up in a single-parent family; her
father left her mother when she was three. She stated that she had always been
close to music, as she would remember the beats from music she heard on the
radio, and could sing it. By the time she was in elementary school she thought
she would like to become a singer
Self-described as shy and horrible at talking to others as a
child, she would play outside by herself in mountains, rivers, by the sea and
in rice paddies. In her third year, she was influenced by her mother to begin
writing a journal of her feelings and tried to compose them into poems. By the
time she was in high school, she began to write songs, and she thought of that
as being managing to be able express herself little by little. While in high
school, she worked part-time at a Chinese restaurant to help pay for tuition.
With her workload, she thought she no longer had the time to realize her dreams
of a music career. For example, between music, school and work, she only had
one or two hours of sleep; she would eventually get ill. While in the hospital,
she was overwhelmed with the desire to make music and finally decided that
school and music could not coexist.
Soon after leaving the hospital, she got a chance to see her
first live street performance. She expressed a desire to pursue a musical
career to the band, Bianco Nero, at the end of the concert. The band advised
Yui to join a private music school. Despite the social norm of finishing school
in Japan and discouragement from her teachers, Yui did not hesitate to drop out
of high school and began to study guitar and songwriting at a juku (cram
school) in her hometown of Fukuoka. Aspiring to become a professional, she took
to street performing at Fukuoka's Tenjin Station. These street performances
helped Yui to overcome her shyness.
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