雪村いづみ
Born in 1937 in Tokyo, Japan, Izumi Yukimura (雪村いづみ, real name Tomoko Asahina) was one of Japan's most popular singers in the 1950s and the early 1960s. She was famous for singing popular American songs in Japanese, with a special interest for cha-cha and mambo. She appeared in "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1963. Nicknamed "The Barbara Streisand of Japan", the N.Y. Journal-American of 1960 wrote of her: "Izumi Yukimura is a singer of great talent in much the same fashion as Mary Martin or Ethel Merman". She is also an actress and has appeared in numerous films. She is still performing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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