Mariya Takeuchi
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Mariya Takeuchi (竹内 まりや) is a Japanese musician with a small following in the United States. She began performing in 1978. She has won two Record Taishou awards, one in 1990 for best singer and one in 1993 for best album, Quiet Life.
[edit] Early life and career
Mariya Takeuchi was born March 20, 1955 in Taisha city in the Hikawa district of Shimane Prefecture. She spent a year studying in the United States while she was at high school. Her musical career started in 1978 while she was studying at Keio University, with the single "Modotte-Oide, Watashi no Jikan" (Please come back, my time) and the album "Beginning". The 1979 single "September" and the 1980 single "Fushigi na Piichi Pai" (Mysterious Peach Pie) were both hits. Takeuchi has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta.
Her husband is the musician Tatsuro Yamashita, with whom she has one child, a girl.
[edit] External links
- Mariya Takeuchi at Warner Music Japan (in Japanese)
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