Kyu Sakamoto

Kyu Sakamoto "坂ざか本ほん九きゅう" (real name "Hisasi Osima") was a singer and actor, born on December 10, 1941 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Sakamoto's song "Sukiyaki" became the first Japanese song in the United States to sell a million copies and reached No.1 on a music chart on June 15, 1963.^[1] Its original (Japanese) title is "上じょうを向むいて歩あるこう" which means "I look up as I walk". He died on August 12, 1985 in an airplane accident during a flight on Japan Airlines Flight 123) aboard from Kanagawa in Japan.^[2]

His hit songs

His major hit songs were as follows.^[3]

何なにもいらない俺おれだけど (1959)
悲かなしき六ろく十じゅう才さい (1960)
ステキなタイミング (Good Timi`n) (1960)
月夜つきよに歩あるけば (Walkin' in The Moonlight) (1961)
カレンダーガール (Calendar Girl) (1961)
見上みあげてごらん夜よるの星ほしを (1963)
上うえを向むいて歩あるこう (Sukiyaki) (1963)
幸しあわせなら手てをたたこう (1964)
涙なみだくんさよなら (1965)^[4]

Notes

↑ "今いまから50年ねん前まえ、全米ぜんべいを制せいしたのは日本にっぽんの音楽おんがくだった。 | Special". Billboard JAPAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
↑ "特集とくしゅう：日航にっこうジャンボ機じゃんぼき墜落ついらく事故じこ". www.jijiphoto.jp. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
↑ "Single Record". Sakamoto Kyu Officiai Web-site (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
↑ words and music by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi.

Outer links

Kyu Sakamoto Official Web Site
Sukiyaki (上うえを向むいて歩あるこう) with English translation and lyrics at YouTube

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[1] "今いまから50年ねん前まえ、全米ぜんべいを制せいしたのは日本にっぽんの音楽おんがくだった。 | Special". Billboard JAPAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.

[2] "特集とくしゅう：日航にっこうジャンボ機じゃんぼき墜落ついらく事故じこ". www.jijiphoto.jp. Retrieved 2020-08-02.

[3] "Single Record". Sakamoto Kyu Officiai Web-site (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.

[4] words and music by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi.

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