Hi, there! J-Canuck here once again to introduce the third guest contributor to "Kayo Kyoku Plus", Marcos V, formerly known as commenter bode1967, from Brazil. He's given some good insight on singers such as Wink and Akina Nakamori(中森明菜), so I invited him to further provide some articles on some of the J-Pop/kayo kyoku singers near and dear to him.
He has already given an article on one-half of Wink, Shoko Aida(相田翔子), so please take a look at that if you like. She went into a bossa nova direction after the duo disbanded, and I'm glad to say that I was able to get one of her first albums, "Luz".
I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
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