立川澄人 - この道/砂山 Sumito Tachikawa - This Road/Sand Hill
His musicality is One Man Oscar Young Orchestra
Sumito Tachikawa (15 February 1929 - 31 December 1985) was a Japanese baritone singer. He belonged to the Nikikai. His real name was Sumito Tachikawa. His former stage name was Sumito Tachikawa and his record company was Victor Music Industry (now JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment). He was also a visiting professor at Senzoku Gakuen University.
Biography and life Born in Oita City, Oita Prefecture. Graduated from Oita Prefectural Beppu No. 2 High School (now Oita Prefectural Art Midorigaoka High School) and Tokyo University of the Arts. Studied under Margarete Netke-Löwe and Teiichi Nakayama, and made her debut in 1953 as Germont in La Traviata. She appeared in many operas, musicals and TV programmes, and participated in the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Singing Contest) four times in a row from 1963 to 1966. In the late 1960s she changed her stage name to Kiyoto (still Sumito). After seeing a family name specialist, he was told that the name Sumito was too strong and that bad things would befall his relatives. He changed his name after his own sister died in a plane crash (see below) and his cousin was also in a car accident, and he changed his name because he "became afraid that it might affect others"
Her representative songs include 'Big Old Clock', which was broadcast on Minna no Uta, and 'Hanshin Tigers no Uta', which was released in 1980. In addition to opera, she has left behind a wide range of singing in a variety of genres, including nursery rhymes and songs.
Tachikawa's narrow-eyed, friendly appearance, humorous character and witty mannerisms in the above-mentioned roles in opera and in comedies such as Papageno and Leporello have made her an active TV personality, not only as a singer but also as a presenter and TV personality. She is also known as a judge on Fuji Television's 'All-Star Family Singing Contest'. He also appeared as the second personality of FM Tokyo's "Nippon Steel Hour Ongaku no Mori" (the first was Naozumi Yamamoto, who was succeeded by Kentaro Haneda after Tachikawa's death), and in NHK Educational TV's school broadcast programme "Utte Go" for second-grade primary schools students. From 6 August 1983, she became the second presenter of Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS)'s Saturday morning wide show programme Sutekina Deai Ii Asa 8 o'clock, which had become vacant after the sudden death of Jiro Yagi in April of the same year [2].
In 1973, she made a special appearance as the lead in the creative opera Kichi Shiroku Ascension (composed by Osamu Shimizu), which was based on a folk tale from Oita Prefecture, where Tachikawa was born.
However, on 10 December 1985, while singing her last song 'Memory' at a dinner show held at a hotel in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, she complained of physical problems and was directly hospitalised, losing consciousness due to a brain stem haemorrhage caused by her chronic high blood pressure. Tachikawa also temporarily regained consciousness, but suffered paralysis of the left side of her body and died of a brain haemorrhage at a Tokyo hospital on 31 December, aged 56.
The following day, 4 January 1986, the programme 'Good Morning 8am', which Tachikawa hosted, organised a memorial programme in which sub-presenters Utsumi Miyadori and Nomura Keiji (then an announcer at MBS) reflected on their memories of Tachikawa. On 13 January of the same year, a special memorial programme was broadcast during the All-Star Family Song Contest, for which he was a judge, and Toshiro Omi, also a judge, read his eulogy and wept.
His surname is officially "Tachikawa", although he calls himself "Hello, it's Uncle Tachikawa!" in the opening of the TV programme "Utaete Go". but his surname is officially "Tachikawa". Whenever he was introduced on TV or radio, the broadcaster received a succession of enquiries from viewers and listeners who thought his name was Tachikawa, and in order to prevent confusion, he was forced to use Tachikawa as his stage name.
She lost her own sister and her family on her way to Myanmar, where her husband had been transferred to work, in the 5 March 1966 mid-air crash of a British Overseas Airways aircraft over Mt Fuji.
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His musicality is One Man Oscar Young Orchestra
Sumito Tachikawa (15 February 1929 - 31 December 1985) was a Japanese baritone singer. He belonged to the Nikikai. His real name was Sumito Tachikawa. His former stage name was Sumito Tachikawa and his record company was Victor Music Industry (now JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment). He was also a visiting professor at Senzoku Gakuen University.
Biography and life
Born in Oita City, Oita Prefecture. Graduated from Oita Prefectural Beppu No. 2 High School (now Oita Prefectural Art Midorigaoka High School) and Tokyo University of the Arts. Studied under Margarete Netke-Löwe and Teiichi Nakayama, and made her debut in 1953 as Germont in La Traviata. She appeared in many operas, musicals and TV programmes, and participated in the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Singing Contest) four times in a row from 1963 to 1966. In the late 1960s she changed her stage name to Kiyoto (still Sumito). After seeing a family name specialist, he was told that the name Sumito was too strong and that bad things would befall his relatives. He changed his name after his own sister died in a plane crash (see below) and his cousin was also in a car accident, and he changed his name because he "became afraid that it might affect others"
Her representative songs include 'Big Old Clock', which was broadcast on Minna no Uta, and 'Hanshin Tigers no Uta', which was released in 1980. In addition to opera, she has left behind a wide range of singing in a variety of genres, including nursery rhymes and songs.
Tachikawa's narrow-eyed, friendly appearance, humorous character and witty mannerisms in the above-mentioned roles in opera and in comedies such as Papageno and Leporello have made her an active TV personality, not only as a singer but also as a presenter and TV personality. She is also known as a judge on Fuji Television's 'All-Star Family Singing Contest'. He also appeared as the second personality of FM Tokyo's "Nippon Steel Hour Ongaku no Mori" (the first was Naozumi Yamamoto, who was succeeded by Kentaro Haneda after Tachikawa's death), and in NHK Educational TV's school broadcast programme "Utte Go" for second-grade primary schools students. From 6 August 1983, she became the second presenter of Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS)'s Saturday morning wide show programme Sutekina Deai Ii Asa 8 o'clock, which had become vacant after the sudden death of Jiro Yagi in April of the same year [2].
ReplyDeleteIn 1973, she made a special appearance as the lead in the creative opera Kichi Shiroku Ascension (composed by Osamu Shimizu), which was based on a folk tale from Oita Prefecture, where Tachikawa was born.
However, on 10 December 1985, while singing her last song 'Memory' at a dinner show held at a hotel in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, she complained of physical problems and was directly hospitalised, losing consciousness due to a brain stem haemorrhage caused by her chronic high blood pressure. Tachikawa also temporarily regained consciousness, but suffered paralysis of the left side of her body and died of a brain haemorrhage at a Tokyo hospital on 31 December, aged 56.
The following day, 4 January 1986, the programme 'Good Morning 8am', which Tachikawa hosted, organised a memorial programme in which sub-presenters Utsumi Miyadori and Nomura Keiji (then an announcer at MBS) reflected on their memories of Tachikawa. On 13 January of the same year, a special memorial programme was broadcast during the All-Star Family Song Contest, for which he was a judge, and Toshiro Omi, also a judge, read his eulogy and wept.
His surname is officially "Tachikawa", although he calls himself "Hello, it's Uncle Tachikawa!" in the opening of the TV programme "Utaete Go". but his surname is officially "Tachikawa". Whenever he was introduced on TV or radio, the broadcaster received a succession of enquiries from viewers and listeners who thought his name was Tachikawa, and in order to prevent confusion, he was forced to use Tachikawa as his stage name.
She lost her own sister and her family on her way to Myanmar, where her husband had been transferred to work, in the 5 March 1966 mid-air crash of a British Overseas Airways aircraft over Mt Fuji.
From https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E5%B7%9D%E6%B8%85%E7%99%BB
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