Welcome to November! Hopefully, Halloween was an enjoyable one for you with those candies and other treats. Looks like the first day of the month will begin with the usual Urban Contemporary Friday on KKP.
Today, we're starting off with a new name to the blog. Singer and actress Risa Yamamoto（山本理沙）was born Rieko Susa（諏佐理恵子）in Osaka although she did spend a lot of her high school years up in Sapporo. A lot of her TV career from the mid-1980s while she was in her teens involved a number of variety shows, dramas and commercials. However, she also had a brief recording career with five singles and one original album.
That May 1986 album, "You're In", included the track "Dance de Kizutsukete" (Hurting Through Dancing), which was created by lyricist Keiko Aso（麻生圭子）and composer Takashi Tsushimi（都志見隆）. I think the song straddles the line between City Pop and pop although the rhythm has that champagne-and-caviar form of City Pop. It's not too bad especially with that horn section in there but that banging synthesizer before the verses can get a bit grating.
Yamamoto ended her career in 1989.
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