Reiko Minaki -- Setsunakute（せつなくて）

In a way, I guess this article can also be considered to be an All-Points Bulletin since I have no idea who this singer is. I'm not even sure if the family name is pronounced right since apparently according to Jisho.org, there are multiple readings for it and I couldn't get any clarity on the singer's biography. But for right now, I will be calling her Reiko Minaki（皆木麗子）.

So scarce is the information on this singer that it even took me a while to track down the fact that this particular single "Setsunakute" (Heartrending) was released in November 1994. However, I could guess that this was a 90s release from the shape of the CD single cover seen above and that particular arrangement for the song which reminded me of a number of other not-so-well-known singers from that time period that have ended up on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" and one famous singer from that decade, ZARD. It's a pretty nice song and despite the fact that it's of average length at a little over four minutes, it's also quite zippy.

It was kind of the uploader to include the songwriting information. Lyricist Kiyoko Kitagawa（北川清子）and composer Akemi Kubota（久保田朱美）were behind "Setsunakute" with Masaki Iwamoto（岩本正樹）handling the arrangement. Ah, and the song was the ending theme for the TV Asahi drama "No Make"（ノーメイク...Sans Makeup）. Aside from that, I have no other information on this lass, so if any of you know anything more about Minaki (along with the proper pronunciation of her last name), please drop me a line.