Kawai Fujii -- TOKYO Maigo（TOKYO迷子）

Ahhh...nothing like a beefy Mood Kayo while looking over the bright lights and big city. That would especially hold true of Tokyo. Even better if one was holding a glass of bourbon.

I don't quite remember how I found out about kayo singer Kawai Fujii（藤井香愛）but I figure that it must have been during one of my random browsings of YouTube. In any event, I do like her 2nd single "TOKYO Maigo" (Lost Child of Tokyo) which came out in July 2019 for that languid bluesy melody with the saxophone in there; something nice and old-fashioned. That melody was provided by veteran composer Kaoru Ito（伊藤薫）with the lyrics coming from Chisato Sakura（さくらちさと）.

Those lyrics have Fujii pining for a love in the big city or she may be just missing the megalopolis in general. I certainly can understand that latter feeling. Mind you, under the current circumstances I'm grateful to be with family here in Canada, but the Tokyo area still remains a home away from home for me.

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"TOKYO Maigo" managed to get up to No. 62 in Oricon. As for Fujii herself, according to her J-Wiki file, she'd been a big admirer of Speed and Namie Amuro（安室奈美恵）when she was a kid, and started dance lessons and voice training from the time that she was in Grade 2, but due to her parents' influence, she began getting interested in enka and kayo kyoku, including the songs of Momoe Yamaguchi（山口百恵）. She made her debut in 2018 with the song "Tokyo Rouge"（東京ルージュ）.