And she’s happily married too - to popular YouTube vlogger Anwar Hadi.
With so much going on in her life, you would think that she was happy and content. Well, in a way she is sort of happy with the fact that she gets to do what she does. Sort of.
“I don’t ever want to feel like I’m really happy doing what I do because I only write music and do it all because I just have to. It’s like how people just have to breathe and eat,” she says.
At least Takahara isn’t contemplating suicide anymore. Her Japan days are over, but she doesn’t mind reminiscing about it if not just for people to understand.
She had always been obsessed with Japanese culture and right after her SPM examinations, she went to study engineering in the Land of the Rising Sun.
But she quickly became disillusioned by it all and started feeling very depressed living in Japan and even with her studies.
“There is a reason, which I can’t explain, why Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. I wasn’t clinically depressed. I was just unhappy and dissatisfied,” she explains.
So as soon as she got back to Malaysia she just went all out with her music and her creativity. This proved much of a challenge too since her parents were not very encouraging.
“My parents wanted me to concentrate on my academic studies and anything else was just considered a distraction. I wasn’t even encouraged to be involved in extra school curriculum activities,” she says.
She wanted to buy a piano but her mother wouldn’t allow it. There was a small keyboard at home and she was only allowed to tinker with that.
When she bought her first guitar, she was forced to hide it in the cupboard so that her mother won’t find it. But, just like all mothers who have a sixth sense, it was discovered anyway!
Her parents are pretty conventional but eventually, they began to accept her career choice when they saw that she could support herself with it.