Kyu Sakamoto
Kyu Sakamoto "坂本九" (real name "Hisasi Osima") was a singer and actor, born on December 10, 1941 in Kanagawa, Japan.
Sakamoto's song "Sukiyaki" became the first Japanese song in the United States to sell a million copies and reached No.1 on a music chart on June 15, 1963.[1] Its original (Japanese) title is "上を向いて歩こう" which means "I look up as I walk". He died on August 12, 1985 in an airplane accident during a flight on Japan Airlines Flight 123) aboard from Kanagawa in Japan.[2]
His hit songs
[change | change source]His major hit songs were as follows.[3]
- 何もいらない俺だけど (1959)
- 悲しき六十才 (1960)
- ステキなタイミング (Good Timi`n) (1960)
- 月夜に歩けば (Walkin' in The Moonlight) (1961)
- カレンダーガール (Calendar Girl) (1961)
- 見上げてごらん夜の星を (1963)
- 上を向いて歩こう (Sukiyaki) (1963)
- 幸せなら手をたたこう (1964)
- 涙くんさよなら (1965)[4]
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ "今から50年前、全米を制したのは日本の音楽だった。 | Special". Billboard JAPAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ↑ "特集：日航ジャンボ機墜落事故". www.jijiphoto.jp. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ↑ "Single Record". Sakamoto Kyu Officiai Web-site (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ↑ words and music by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi.
Outer links
[change | change source]- Kyu Sakamoto Official Web Site
- Sukiyaki (上を向いて歩こう) with English translation and lyrics at YouTube
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