Saturday, March 21, 2015

Sakurai Kumiko(桜井くみ子)

Sakurai Kumiko(桜井くみ子)'s interest in enka songs can perhaps be traced back to her parents who were also fans of music from that genre.

She first sang when she was four years old when she sang "Teacher(せんせい Sensei)" by Mori Masako(森昌子). Afterwards, she started entering various local karaoke competitions and won the twentieth "MC Music Center National Competition(MC音楽センター全国大会 MC ongaku sentā Zenkoku Taikai)."

She was attending junior college in Osaka when her desire to become a singer overcame her. She left school and went to Tokyo and became Fuji Ryūnosuke(藤竜之介)'s live-in disciple. She tried to maker her debut for nine years while studying with him, but without any luck when she entered and won the Nippon Crown's 45th Anniversary New Artist's Auditions"日本クラウン創立45周年記念新人オーディション Nippon Kuraun Sōritsu 45 Shūnen Kinen Shinjin Ōdishon."

The next year, she made her professional debut with "Rampaging Boat(あばれ船 Abarebune)" and won that year's Wired Music Award at Japan Cable Awards and the New Artist's Award at the Annual Japan Record Awards.

She is stubborn and does not like to lose.

She likes cats, castle, and kappa - she even has a license to catch one if she should ever see one.

She claims to be able to talk to cats, but no one she has talked to believes her.

This blog post translates information from the Wikipedia article 桜井くみ子 which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

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