Akiko Urasaki is a Japanese hip-hop artist who releases music under the stage
name Awich. She was born on December 16, 1986, in Naha, Okinawa, and became an
avid fan of American rapper Tupac while still a child. Tupac's lyrics helped
Urasaki learn English, and she began writing her own lyrics at 13 years old. Her
independent debut record, Asian Wish Child, was released in 2006, and Awich
logged several years in America after its release. She became both a wife and a
mother while overseas, although her husband's incarceration and subsequent
murder rendered her a single mother at a...