Thelma Aoyama

Thelma Aoyama (青山 テルマ Aoyama Teruma?), born October 27, 1987, is a Japanese pop and R&B singer. She is part Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese.

She is probably best known for her collaboration song with SoulJa, "Koko ni Iru yo", and her answer song "Soba ni Iru ne". In September 2008, the Guinness World Records certified that "Soba ni Iru ne" became the best-selling digital download single in Japan at that time with over two million "full-track" downloads (Chaku Uta Full).

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Her debut album, Diary, was released in Japan on March 26, 2008. On February 11, 2009, she released album Love!: Thelma Love Song Collection, which debuted at the number-one position on the Oricon weekly charts. The latest album with a title name of Emotions was released in September, 2009.

In late December, it was announced that Aoyama will collaborate with Big Bang's Taeyang for her single, "Fall in Love", which will be released on January 27, 2010. In early February, right after the release of her new single "Fall in Love", Aoyama announced on her official blog that a new single called "Kaeru Basho" will be out on March 3, 2010.The first song called "Kaeru basho" is the ending song in the movie Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King. This single will be featuring SoulJa, once again, as they have before with Soba ni Iru ne and will have a B side called "Anata ga Kiechaisode". Summer Love!! ft. Red Rice came out the summer of 2010.

In 2010, she also sang with the Taiwan pop group, Da Mouth in a duet with the female lead singer, Aisa in the song, 'Secret Life' within the album, 'Da First Episode'. In late April, it was announced that Aoyama will collaborate with Korean girl group 4Minute for her single, "Without U", which will be released on May 25, 2011. The English Version was released on May 7, 2011. She contributed a cover of hide's "Tell Me" to the Tribute VI -Female Spirits- tribute album, which was released on December 18, 2013.