was a Japanese popular music (''
ryūkōka
is a Japanese music genre, musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the East Asian cultural sphere, sinic reading of ''hayariuta'', used for commercial music of Edo period, Edo Period. Therefore, ...
'') singer. As of the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, she was one of the most popular female singers in Japan, competing with
Hamako Watanabe and
Noriko Awaya.
In addition, she took part in the ''
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 ...
'', one of Japan's most famous annual musical television shows, ten times.
Biography
She was born in the city of
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
, and raised in
Miyoshi city,
Hiroshima Prefecture.
She graduated from the
Tokyo Music School. Impressed by Takeo Masunaga (also known as
Ichiro Fujiyama) at a performance held by the music school, she debuted in 1936. Her famous song was released in 1939. On August 6, 1945, she narrowly avoided the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima because she was riding a train traveling through a tunnel at the time of the explosion.
She ceased activity as a singer in 2003, and retired in Hiroshima Prefecture. She died in Hiroshima on August 16, 2011.
Discography
* : 1936
* : 1937
* : 1939
* : 1940
* : 1946
* : 1946
* : 1948
* : 1949
* : 1950
References
External links
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1915 births
2011 deaths
Hibakusha
Tokyo Music School alumni
Singers_from_Hiroshima
20th-century Japanese musicians
20th-century Japanese women singers
20th-century Japanese singers