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+Japanese pop sensation and undisputed queen Ayumi Hamasaki is losing her hearing in her remaining good ear, the star shared with fans on her Team Ayu blog.
+The singer said she recently started experiencing severe dizziness, was unable to walk straight, and was even vomiting while at rehearsals.
+She also noticed her hearing started to deteriorate and after a series of tests, doctors told her that her right ear was beginning to weaken, having had to compensate for her left ear for the past nine years.
+However, Ayumi said she had no plans to stop performing, because she felt that the stage was where she “belonged”.
+Ayumi’s hearing has been in decline since the mid-2000s, when she was diagnosed as being deaf in her left year.
+That condition can be traced back to the cold and ear infection she caught while on a tour in 2000.
+Despite being warned that she needed to lessen her exposure to loud noises, Ayumi only spent a few days recovering before she went back to touring, and did not cancel or postpone any concert dates until later.
+Dubbed the “Empress of J-pop, Ayumi is considered one of Japan’s best selling-artists of all time, with over 50 million records sold.
+Her debut single, “Poker Face”, was released in 1998 and her first album debuted at the top of the Oricon charts in Japan, where it stayed for four weeks.