{"id":34678,"date":"2016-04-08T14:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpop-idols.com\/fr\/?p=34678"},"modified":"2016-04-09T22:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:31:33","slug":"okada-yukiko-already-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpop-idols.com\/en\/okada-yukiko-already-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Okada Yukiko, 30 years already"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OkadaOn this April 8, J-Pop Idols<\/strong> pays tribute to a popular idol of the 1980s, the lovely Okada Yukiko<\/strong>\u00a0(\u5ca1\u7530\u6709\u5e0c\u5b50).<\/p>\n

Indeed, this is 30 years since Okada Yukiko passed away prematurely at the age of 18, after jumping from the top of the Sun Music Building in Tokyo in the morning of April 8, 1986<\/span>, a highly publicized suicide that caused a\u00a0wave of suicides throughout the Japanese archipelago in the same year.<\/p>\n

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For those who do not know her, Okada Yukiko, from her\u00a0real name Kayo Sato<\/strong> (and nicknamed “Yukko”), was a very popular young idol singer of her era and is still\u00a0well-known in Japan.<\/p>\n

She began her career in April 1984 with the release of his first disc\u00a0First Date<\/em>\u00a0under Canyon Records, after winning the television competition Star Tanjo! the previous year.<\/p>\n

Yukko released in her lifetime 4 studio albums, 2 best-of albums and 8 original singles (during a 2-year career only), discs well-welcomed in Japan. But the song\u00a0which definitely reveals her is the song Kuchibiru Network<\/em>, released in 1986 and written by the popular idol Matsuda Seiko<\/strong>, which reached the 1st place of Oricon sales and propelled Okada to stardom.<\/p>\n

The idol group Sunmyu<\/a>\u00a0covered\u00a0some of her songs, including\u00a0Kuchibiru Network<\/em> in 2012.<\/p>\n

This year, Okada Yukiko would be 49 years old.<\/p>\n

For fans of Japanese music of the 1980s, Okada Yukiko is a good reference among the idols of her generation. Some\u00a0of her discs are no longer available\u00a0nowadays, except best-of albums released\u00a0after her death. If her discography interests you, you can listen to some\u00a0songs through YouTube links or buy her records through CDJapan below.<\/p>\n

Her soft voice and ordinary and her smile would amaze you probably!<\/p>\n