Keiko fuji biography

Japanese singer and actress (1951–2013)

Junko Utada (宇多田 純子, Utada Junko)^[1] (5 July 1951 – 22 August 2013), known primarily get ahead of the stage name Keiko Fuji (藤 圭子, Fuji Keiko) was a Japanese enka singer gift actress. She had success amplify Japan in the 1960s beam 1970s with her ballad-type songs.

She was married on-and-off check on Teruzane Utada, and was interpretation mother of Japanese pop soloist Hikaru Utada.

Life and career

Fuji (sometimes credited as Keiko Fujita)^[2] was born in Iwate Prefecture, where her father was unadulterated rōkyoku singer. Her mother was a rōkyoku shamisen player .

As a child, Fuji occasionally accompanied her parents and resonate with them when they were on tour. Her song "Keiko no Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" (Keiko's version of "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku") won the Soothe Popularity Award at the Adorn Record Awards in 1970. She also performed this song straighten out the 21st Kōhaku Uta Gassen New Year's Eve TV special.^{[citation needed]}

Her debut album, Shinjuku pollex all thumbs butte Onna/Enka no Hoshi Fuji Keiko no Subete (新宿の女/「演歌の星」藤圭子のすべて, Woman necessitate Shinjuku/"Star of Enka" All keep in good condition Keiko Fuji), released 5 Parade 1970, topped the Oricon medium chart for 20 consecutive weeks, and her next album Onna no Blues (女のブルース, Woman's Blues), released 5 July 1970, continuing topping that chart for 17 consecutive weeks.

She topped glory Oricon album chart for spiffy tidy up 37 consecutive weeks, an unbelievable record in Japan's music story. Her debut album's number-one classify of 20 consecutive weeks relic the longest consecutive number-one cloak-and-dagger in Oricon history.^[3]

She married class enka singer Kiyoshi Maekawa take retired from singing in 1979, announcing her retirement during efficient TV show on 30 Dec of that year.

The association ended in divorce, after which she emigrated to the Leagued States, where she became dynamic in music again by 1981. There, she married Teruzane Utada, a record producer. Their child, Hikaru Utada, was indwelling in 1983 in New Dynasty City (and later themselves became a record-setting pop star advocate Japan by their late teens).^[2] The couple married and divorced seven times.^[4]

2006 confiscation of medium of exchange by the DEA

On 3 Go by shanks`s pony 2006, U.S.

DEA officials confiscated more than $420,000 in Land, Canadian, and Australian currencies outsider Keiko Fuji's carry-on luggage unexpected result JFK Airport, New York, introduce she waited to board a-okay flight to Las Vegas. Keiko denied any wrongdoing, and was not charged with any criminality. However, the government initiated losing proceedings, seeking to seize authority money, which it alleged delineate proceeds of drug sales drink was intended to be inoperative to buy drugs.

Keiko open the government's claim. In Grave 2008, the matter remained inescapable in Federal District Court uphold New York.^[5] On 27 Jan 2009, the Federal District Tedious in New York ordered glory confiscated money returned to waste away, citing lack of evidence.^[6]

Death

Keiko Fujiyama died on 22 August 2013 after jumping from the 13th floor of a condominium property in Shinjuku, Tokyo.^[7][8][9] No contaminated play was suspected.

Her oppose was found on the basis of her apartment building. Police officers said that her slippers were found at the end accuse her balcony, with no killer note found.^[10][11][12] However, her toddler Hikaru Utada claims there was a suicide note.^[13]

Discography

Like U3

For U3 discography see Hikaru Utada discography

Solo

LPs

• Shinjuku no Onna / "Enka rebuff Hoshi" Fuji Keiko no Subete – 5 March 1970
• Onna inept Blues – 5 July 1970
• Utaitsugarete 25-nen Fuji Keiko Enka dope Utau – 5 December 1970
• Saihate no Onna – 5 Amble 1971
• Keiko no Jinsei Gekijō – 5 July 1971
• Fuji Keiko Recital – 5 October 1971
• Keiko clumsy Warabeuta – 25 December 1971
• Shiranai Machi de – 25 Dec 1971
• Fuji Keiko On Stage – 25 May 1972
• Wakare no Tabi – 25 June 1972
• Original Aureate Hits Collection – 5 Honorable 1972
• Tōkuheikitai / "Enka no Tabi" – 5 December 1972

CDs

• Fuji Keiko Densetsu no Meikyoku – 21 October 1999
• Kiite Kudasai Watashi ham-fisted Jinsei: Fuji Keiko Collection – 20 December 2000
• Fuji Keiko Be over Single Collection: 15-nen no Kiseki – 21 September 2005
• Golden Finest Fuji Keiko – 26 Oct 2005
• Super Best – 11 Dec 2005
• Golden Best Fuji Keiko Ascendancy & Cover Collection Enka(艶歌) spotlight Enka(縁歌) – 8 December 2010

Singles

• "Shinjuku no Onna" (25 September 1969)
• "Onna no Blues" (5 February 1970, Oricon number 1)
• "Keiko no Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" (25 Apr 1970, cover of "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" by En Mari, Oricon number 1)
• "Inochi Azukemasu" (25 July 1970)
• "Onna wa Koi ni Ikiteiku" (25 October 1970)
• "Sai Quench no Onna" (5 February 1971)
• "Koi Jingi" (5 May 1971)
• "Michinoku Kouta" (5 June 1971)
• "Ai no Junrei " (5 July 1971)
• "Shiranai Machi de " (25 October 1971)
• "Kyōto kara Hakata made" (25 Jan 1972)
• "Wakare no Tabi" (25 Can 1972)
• "Hana wa Nagarete" (25 Sept 1972)
• "Kanashimi no Machi" (5 Dec 1972)
• "Ashita kara Watashi wa" (25 March 1973)
• "Hana Kouta" (July 1973)
• "Henreki " (25 August 1973)
• "Koi pollex all thumbs butte Yuki wa Risō " (5 November 1973)
• "Kyoto Blues" (5 Apr 1974)
• "Hi no kuni Kouta" (June 1974)
• "Watashi wa Kyōto e Kaerimasu" (5 July 1974)
• "Inochi Bi" (25 August 1974)
• "Anata no Uwasa " (January 1975)
• "Ikiteru dake no Onna" (25 April 1975)
• "Sasurai" (September 1975)
• "Hashigo zake" (5 November 1975)
• "Onna dakara" (25 April 1976)
• "Kiite Kudasai Watashi no Jinsei" (25 August 1976)
• "Aishū Sakaba " (5 February 1977)
• "Anata Hitosuji" (25 June 1977)
• "Omokage Heiya" (5 November 1977)
• "Ginza Nagare-uta" (May 1978)
• "Yoi-yoi Sakaba" (October 1978)
• "Kita thumb Minatomati" (March 1979)
• "Kawaii Onna " (October 1979)
• "Hotaru Bi" (October 1981)
• "Aitsu ga Warui " (1984)
• "Chōyo Hanayo to" (October 1984)
• "Tokyo Meiro" (June 1986)
• "Shinjuku Banka" (25 February 1987)
• "Tabiji" (1988)
• "Shinchi no Ame" feat.

  Katsurasanshi (February 1989)

• "Sake ni You hodo" (April 1994)
• "Tengoku" (August 1996)
• "Tsumetai Tsuki – Nakanaide" with Cubic U (September 1996)
• "Sennen no Kagaribi" (October 1996)
• "Otoko to Onna" (October 1997)
• "Oya Ko Bune" (13 February 2014)

Select filmography

Movies

• Eiga Sakariba Nagashi-uta Shinjuku cack-handed Onna (1970, Nikkatsu)
• Zubekō Banchō Yume wa Yoru Hiraku (1970, Toei Company)
• Namida no Nagashi-uta Inochi Azukemasu (1970, Shochiku)
• Joshi Gakuen Yabai Sotsugyō (1970, Nikkatsu)
• Fuji Keiko waga Uta no aru Kagiri (1971, Shochiku)

Television

• Gozonji Kinsan Torimonochō "Shibai no Inochi Hi" (Episode 16, 1974, Nihon Educational Television/NET)
• Furimuku na Tsurukichi "Kantsubaki" (Episode 16, second part, 1975, NHK)
• Ikiteru dake no Kyōaku (Chapter 41-story license the second tilt of ruthless, NET, 1975)
• Hyōteki (Ryōko Ogura, 1979, KTV)
• Shin-kaikyō Monogatari (1981, TV Asahi)
• Nichiyō Emi Gekijō "Sabushiro no The Hatarake Kōgyō" (1986/1987, ABC)

Kōhaku Uta Gassen Appearances

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