Mitsuko Sawamura Born December 1 1941 中島満子 Mitsuko Nakajima
Career Started singing at the age of seven in 1949 at an American military camp in Okinawa, was scouted by Columbia and moved to Tokyo, where she made her record debut in 1951 with ‘Loneliness is Boring’. In 1955 she signed a contract with MGM, and in 1955 she sang with Frank Sinatra in ‘Let's Meet in Las Vegas’ and with Marlon Brando in ‘A Fifteen Night in August’. She appeared on NHK's ‘Kohaku Uta Gassen’ in 1951, and retired in 1950 due to marriage, but returned to the stage in 1961. She was active mainly on stage from then on. Date of death 11 March 2008 (2008) From https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B2%A2%E6%9D%91%E7%BE%8E%E5%8F%B8%E5%AD%90-1671630
Her Discogs https://www.discogs.com/ja/artist/3131004-Mitsuko-Sawamura?srsltid=AfmBOood3faIHPZa0a5SY5Oir7GD7kTTUZLzPj_29xh1c6KQS5NzBanH
Mitsuko Sawamura
ReplyDeleteBorn December 1 1941 中島満子 Mitsuko Nakajima
Career Started singing at the age of seven in 1949 at an American military camp in Okinawa, was scouted by Columbia and moved to Tokyo, where she made her record debut in 1951 with ‘Loneliness is Boring’. In 1955 she signed a contract with MGM, and in 1955 she sang with Frank Sinatra in ‘Let's Meet in Las Vegas’ and with Marlon Brando in ‘A Fifteen Night in August’. She appeared on NHK's ‘Kohaku Uta Gassen’ in 1951, and retired in 1950 due to marriage, but returned to the stage in 1961. She was active mainly on stage from then on.
Date of death 11 March 2008 (2008)
From https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B2%A2%E6%9D%91%E7%BE%8E%E5%8F%B8%E5%AD%90-1671630
Her Discogs
https://www.discogs.com/ja/artist/3131004-Mitsuko-Sawamura?srsltid=AfmBOood3faIHPZa0a5SY5Oir7GD7kTTUZLzPj_29xh1c6KQS5NzBanH
Girl Prodigy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqgQv-iwCQ
Jazz Okinawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqJ5D5lTE7Y
Go - Go Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shuw7Ew1jC4