Given her style, it came as no surprise that she worked on her first professional record in Seattle's Studio X, where she gathered a dream lineup of Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden and Pearl Jam), John McBain (Monster Magnet), and Glenn Slater (Walkabouts) for a producer, she landed Adam Kasper, who worked with Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Foo Fighters. Her first chance at success came after she won a pop vocal contest, but the story was cut short by the death of her songwriter however, that made Aya work on her own material, which she honed by playing American military bases and Shibuya streets several demos later, she landed a deal with BMG Japan. Soon Aya began playing in a local girl band playing punk covers, but that wasn't enough for her, and, dropping out of school at 15, she took to the road, ending up in Tokyo as a bar singer and already a faithful Nirvana devotee. ![]() She first heard electric guitar at a Ventures show in primary school it was instant conversion. This career trajectory obviously has to do with the pent-up energy Aya accumulated during her childhood years spent in a town of 2,000 on the northern island of Hokkaido. ![]() A grunge darling of J-rock, Aya entered the field after the genre died in America along with Kurt Cobain, but still managed to make a stir on the Japanese scene and work with prime American grunge rockers, including members of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and, yes, Nirvana.
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