And so was her debut single, "Ai ga Hajimaru Toki" (When Love Begins) which was released in May of that year. When I first listened to this one, I actually thought that Fubuki was an aidoru with the somewhat off-tune delivery, but she was groomed to be a regular singer. I mean, it's cute enough but I guess that I can't be surprised that she left singing fairly quickly. Mieko Arima（有馬三恵子）and Masaaki Hirao（平尾昌晃）were the songwriters behind this song. Incidentally, Hirao was the fellow who had introduced Hong Kong-born Agnes Chan（アグネス・チャン）to Japan a few years earlier, and there is something rather Agnes-like with Fubuki's singing, so I wonder whether he was thinking about lightning striking twice.
I found out that Jun Fubuki is a stage name. According to the 1981 book "Cinema Koseiha Land"（シネマ個性派ランド...Cinema One-of-a-Kind Land） via J-Wiki, the person who decided on her new identity chose the family name Fubuki from the phrase "Kaze ni fukareta you ni detekita"（風に吹かれたように出てきた......came in like the wind）. As for her given name, Jun, the person simply liked the sound of it (perhaps the fact that it has the same pronunciation as the summery 6th month may have also been a factor). Although it wasn't given in J-Wiki, when I did the hunt for her birth name on Yahoo.jp, the search engine flung out in huge letters, Reiko Horikawa（堀川麗子）with one site adding another family name, possibly after her parents' divorce, and then her married name.
Speaking about celebrities who I hadn't known were singers early in their career, actress Yuko Asano（浅野ゆう子）impersonated Fubuki with her own rendition of "Ai ga Hajimaru Toki".
I found out that Jun Fubuki is a stage name. According to the 1981 book "Cinema Koseiha Land"（シネマ個性派ランド...Cinema One-of-a-Kind Land） via J-Wiki, the person who decided on her new identity chose the family name Fubuki from the phrase "Kaze ni fukareta you ni detekita"（風に吹かれたように出てきた......came in like the wind）. As for her given name, Jun, the person simply liked the sound of it (perhaps the fact that it has the same pronunciation as the summery 6th month may have also been a factor). Although it wasn't given in J-Wiki, when I did the hunt for her birth name on Yahoo.jp, the search engine flung out in huge letters, Reiko Horikawa（堀川麗子）with one site adding another family name, possibly after her parents' divorce, and then her married name.
Speaking about celebrities who I hadn't known were singers early in their career, actress Yuko Asano（浅野ゆう子）impersonated Fubuki with her own rendition of "Ai ga Hajimaru Toki".
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