is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter.
Biography As a schoolgirl, she won an audition for Takeshi Terauchi in Kannai, Yokohama, but was advised that she finish secondary school before starting a musical career.
As a freshman at Senzoku Gakuen Junior College, she won a special prize at the Yamaha Popular Song Contest. Overall, she participated in the contest four times, two years in a row in spring and summer.
At the age of 21, in November 1977, she debuted with the single that made her famous virtually overnight and would sell 800,000 copies. She continued with the hits and .
"Kamome ga Tonda Hi" earned her the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist in 1978. Another of her most famous songs is from 1980.
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