miyuki -- Doyou no Lunch（土曜のlunch）

 

If I'm not mistaken, that 2017 cruise began on a Friday afternoon so Saturday was our first lunch on the Harmony of the Seas. And the above was it. I guess I had to construct my own hamburger.

OK...deep breath to explain this next singer. There is a singer already on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" who goes by the mononym of Miyuki and started her recording career sometime in the 1980s. Her kanji is 「美雪」which will help in distinguishing her from this singer here who is showing up on the blog for the first time and who also goes professionally by the same mononym but just in romaji with a small "m" to begin her name. miyuki was actually born Miyuki Nakajima（中島美由紀）but she is not to be confused with the far more famous singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima（中島みゆき）who hails from Hokkaido while miyuki herself is from Chiba Prefecture. As you can also see, miyuki and Miyuki Nakajima have different writings for their given names, professionally speaking. However, to add to the craziness factor, far more famous Miyuki Nakajima has the same kanji given name from her birth（中島美雪）as the first singer that I mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph.😳 If you would like to get a cool compress for your head...

Anyways, "little m" miyuki, as I mentioned, hails from Chiba, and she's a singer, pianist and composer who was active in singing mostly during the 1990s. In the early part of that decade, she released a couple of mini-albums and a single before putting out her first major debut single "Kawaii Kiss wo Ageru"（かわいいKISSをあげる...I'll Give You a Cute Kiss） in 1994. She ended up releasing 6 singles and 3 albums (including one album that got out in 2006).

From her April 1997 album "babyface", I offer you her track "Doyou no Lunch" (Saturday Lunch) which is a light pop concoction with faint feelings of rock and Shibuya-kei. miyuki's vocals and arrangement remind me somewhat of Chisato Moritaka（森高千里）a few years earlier when she herself was getting out of her techno aidoru phase of the early 1990s. Since the singer is listed as a composer only, I'm not sure whether she actually provided the lyrics and if someone else did write the words, I haven't been able to find out who it is.