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Kiyoshi Maekawa
(born ) is a Japanese singer and tarento. He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta". As a frontman of the band, he spawned multiple hit singles such as "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku" during the 1970s. In 1982, he released his first solo single "Yuki Ressha" composed and produced by Grammy-winning musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, and left the group five years later. During his solo career, he released only one top-20 hit "Himawari" in 2002, a ballad contributed by Masaharu Fukuyama. Aside from the recording career, Maekawa has also built up popularity as a TV star, appearing on some television shows hosted by comedians such as Kinichi Hagimoto and The Drifters, airing around the latter half of 1970s and the 1980s. Personal life He is also known as a former spouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasebo, Nagasaki
is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is also the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. On 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 247,739 and a population density of 581 persons per km2 (1,505 persons per square mile). The total area is . The city includes a part of Saikai National Park. Located in the southern part of the city is the Dutch-styled theme park ''Huis Ten Bosch''. The island of Ukujima is also administered as part of Sasebo city. History The area of present-day Sasebo was a small fishing village under the control of nearby Hirado Domain until shortly after the start of the Meiji period. Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, when surveying the coasts of northwestern Kyūshū for the site of a navy base, selected his location based on its protected, deep-water harbor, geographic proximity to China and Korea, and the presence of nearby coal fields. Sasebo Naval District, founded in 1886 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teruzane Utada
is a Japanese music executive producer.Japanese star hopes to rock the U.S. " ''''. He married Junko Utada () and oversaw her career. They were married and divorced to each other seven times. ''Japan Zone''. March 5, 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2011. Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masako Mori (singer)
is a Japanese idol, enka singer, and actress. Biography In 1973, she was part of "a hit female trio", which also included musicians Momoe Yamaguchi and Junko Sakurada. The music trio became popular as part of the television program Producing the Stars (Star Tanjō!); they were known as "The Trio of Third-Year Junior High School Students" ("Hana no Chu 3 Trio"). She debuted in 1972, at age 13, with the song ' (''Professor''), receiving numerous music awards for it. The song reached the #3 position on the Oricon charts. Other hits include ' (''Classmates''), "''Chugaku Sannensei''" (''Junior High School Third Grade''), "''Okaasan''" (''Mother'') and "''Ettou Tsubame''" (''The Wintering Swallow''). She won the Best Singer prize for "''Ettou Tsubame''" at the 25th Japan Record Awards. She retired when she married Shinichi Mori in 1986, but in 2006 returned to the stage with the single "''Bara Iro no Mirai''". The song reached the #14 position on the Oricon charts. In addition to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyuki Kawanaka
is a Japanese enka singer. Her singing career spanned over four decades. She married Katsuo Yamada in 1991. Early life Kawanaka was born Kimiko Kawanaka in Yonago, Tottori. At a young age, she moved to Suita, Osaka where she grew up. In 1973, at age 18, she debuted as Kasuga Harumi and tried to become a pop idol with the release of the songs "Shinjuku Tenshin" and "Kantsubaki no Shima Kara". Both singles failed and she returned to Osaka to work at her mother's okonomiyaki is a Japanese savory pancake dish consisting of wheat flour batter and other ingredients (mixed, or as toppings) cooked on a '' teppan'' (flat griddle). Common additions include cabbage, meat, and seafood, and toppings include ''okonomiyaki' ... restaurant. In 1976, she won a contest singing "Anatani Inochi Gake". She adopted stage name Miyuki Kawanaka and launched her second debut as an enka singer. In 1980 Kawanaka's single ''Futarizake'' (ふたり酒) hit, with sales over a million copies. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachiko Kobayashi
, born in Niigata, Japan, is a female Japanese enka singer and occasional voice actress and voice provider of VOCALOID 4 Sachiko developed by YAMAHA co. She previously worked alongside the Pokémon Company, under the alias " Garura Kobayashi". Biography When Kobayashi was 9 years old in 1963, she became a champion in the TBS-produced music variety show and was scouted by famous Japanese composer and guitarist Masao Koga. Although Kobayashi was only a grade four student, her voice was said to be exactly like well-known Japanese enka singer Hibari Misora. One year later, Kobayashi and her family left their hometown, Niigata, Niigata and headed to Tokyo where she released her debut song, . In 1968, she acted as the heroine in , a TV drama produced by TV Asahi. The drama's ending song was also credited to her. However, after 1968, Kobayashi's level of celebrity dropped, thus causing her to get fewer TV appearances and other opportunities. In 1979, her song became the best sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumiko Koyanagi
, formerly known as during her Takarazuka Revue days, is a Japanese actress and singer. She began her career as a member of Takarazuka Revue. She won the award for best new artist at the 13th Japan Record Awards and won the Japan Music Award in 1972. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 6th Japan Academy Prize for ''To Trap a Kidnapper'' and the award for best actress at the 7th Japan Academy Prize for ''Hakujasho''. Musical accomplishments Rumiko Koyanagi debuted in 1971 with the single ''"Watashi no Jyokamachi"'' ("My Castle Town"), which reached the No. 1 position on the Oricon charts and sold nearly 2 million copies. She was awarded "Best Newcomer" at the 13th Japan Record Awards and the 2nd Japan Music Awards. She performed for the first time at the 22nd edition of Kōhaku Uta Gassen and eventually made 18 consecutive appearances on the show. She was promoted alongside Mari Amachi and Saori Minami, and they were dubbed the ''"San-Nin Musume"'' (Three yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayuri Ishikawa
is a Japanese enka singer who made her professional debut in 1973. With a career nearing five decades, she is one of the most-recognized and successful enka singers in history. Ishikawa is a popular contestant on the annual NHK ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' broadcast. Up till 2017, she has been invited to perform 40 times since 1977, the year she released her biggest hit, " Tsugaru Kaikyo-Fuyugeshiki". To date, she holds the record for the most appearances in the ''NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' for a female artist. She has released over 100 albums (including compilation albumsIshikawa's official website lists only her Teichiku albums.) and more than 120 singles, of which a few were not enka, but rock and jazz music instead. Another of her biggest hits, " Amagi-goe", which was released in 1986, won her many awards, and many believe that it was this song that made her an icon as an A-list enka singer. Biography Ishikawa grew up during enka's heyday and went with her mother and grandmother to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Ōta
Hiromi Ōta (太田 裕美 '' Ōta Hiromi'', born on January 20, 1955, in Kasukabe, Saitama Saitama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese female singer. She is a popular singer who is considered an idol Idol or Idols may refer to: Religion and philosophy * Cult image, a neutral term for a man-made object that is worshipped or venerated for the deity, spirit or demon that it embodies or represents * Murti, a point of focus for devotion or medit ... in Japan during the 1970s, and is thought to be representative of that era.Eiji Otsuka – 2015 ''The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Book One Omnibus'' 1616557540 "Note that all four chapter titles in this volume are the names of songs by Hiromi Ota, a J-pop singer who had a popular debut in the 1970s. " She also collaborated with the composer-musician Ayuo and the Japanese koto player Kazue Sawai singing a unique blend of New Age, Classical and traditional Eastern music. Her collaborations with Ayuo were also released in the US o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Sagara
is the stage name of , an award-winning Japanese popular singer who was prolific between 1967 and 1980. She won numerous awards as a singer and composer, branching into acting. After a surgery to remove polyps on her vocal cords in 1985, she became a business woman. Since 1993, she has worked in the field of animal welfare and has published several books about animal care. She has periodically returned to television in guest appearances and in 2010 resumed singing and composing. Early life Sagara was born in 1945 in Tokyo. She suffered from severe shyness from childhood, but had a love for music. Raised in a wealthy family, her grandfather is the major shareholder of Tomoe Industries, she began music training with jazz singer at the age of sixteen. She enrolled in Nihon University College of Arts to study television direction and originally wanted to produce music programming for Fuji TV. While she was in university, she continued singing at such venues as Nikko Music Salon ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina Aoe
, professionally known as , was a Japanese female ''enka'' singer who had a series of popular hits in the late 1960s and continued charting late into her career. With her distinctive husky voice, she acquired the nickname "Queen of the Blues". She appeared 18 times on the annual ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen , more commonly known simply as ''Kōhaku'', is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK net ...'' show. After her death, a memorial to Aoe was established in the Isezakichō shopping area in Yokohama. Selected discography *, 1968, one million sold * 1969, 1.5 million sold Kōhaku Uta Gassen Appearances References External links Obituary* Enka singers Japanese women jazz singers 1941 births 2000 deaths Singers from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese women singers 20th-century Japanese singers {{Japan-singer-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Amachi
is a Japanese female singer and actress, who was famous in 1970s' Japan. On October 1, 1971, she debuted with the single "Mizuiro no Koi." She was born as Mari Saito in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture. She got five Oricon No.1 songs, a record as a female singer which was later broken by Seiko Matsuda. She started the era of Japanese idols in the 1970s and 1980s. Mari Amachi was the top female vocalist of Sony Music Entertainment in Japan. Biography While Amachi was still in elementary school, her mother taught her how to play the piano. In 1964 she attended Junior High School attached to Kunitachi College of Music located in Kunitachi, Tokyo, where she studied piano and vocals. She graduated from High School attached to the college mentioned above in March 1970. Mari Amachi debuted in October 1971 with the single ''"Mizuiro No Koi"''. She was promoted alongside Rumiko Koyanagi and Saori Minami, and they were dubbed the ''"San-Nin Musume"'' (Three young girls). Before them, Hibar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuji Keiko
(5 July 1951 – 22 August 2013), known primarily by the stage name was a Japanese singer and actress. She had success in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s with her ballad-type songs. She was married on-and-off with Utada Teruzane, and was the mother of Japanese pop singer Hikaru Utada. Life and career Fuji (sometimes credited as Keiko Fujita) was born in Iwate Prefecture, where her father was a singer. Her mother was a player . As a child, Fuji sometimes accompanied her parents and sang with them when they were on tour. Her song "Keiko no Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" (Keiko's version of "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku") won the Mass Popularity Award at the Japan Record Awards in 1970. She also performed this song in the 21st ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' New Year's Eve TV special. Her debut album, , released 5 March 1970, topped the Oricon album chart for 20 consecutive weeks, and her next album , released 5 July 1970, continued topping that chart for 17 consecutive weeks. She topped the Oricon al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
