Chiyako Satō (佐藤千夜子 ''Satō Chiyako'') was a Japanese singer.
Biography
The Japanese singer Chiyako Satō (real name Chiyo Satō 佐藤千代 ''Satō Chiyo'') was born in
Tendō, Yamagata in 1897.
After graduating the
Tokyo Music School (a precursor to the modern
Tokyo University of the Arts
or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...
her musical talents were recognized by the poet
Ujō Noguchi (野口雨情) and the composer
Shinpei Nakayama. In the early
Shōwa period
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she achieved enormous success with "
Habu no Minato" (波浮の港; 1928; lyrics by Noguchi, music by Nakayama) recorded at
Japan Victor Company, and followed this up with "
Tōkyō Kōshinkyoku" (東京行進曲; 1929; lyrics by , music by Nakayama).
In 1930, she went to study in Italy, but upon returning to Japan in 1935 she was unable to reclaim her position in the Japanese show business world. She died in obscurity in 1968.
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1897 births
1968 deaths
Japanese women singers
People from Tendō, Yamagata
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