Miho Nakayama, a Japanese singer recognized for her contributions to the Nineteen Eighties J-pop scene and a different performing profession, has died.
The Big Apple, the company that represented Nakayama, confirmed the singer’s demise Friday in a declaration revealed on its web site. Nakayama was discovered useless in her dwelling, in response to the assertion translated from Japanese to English through Google Translate. He was 54 years outdated.
Nakayama’s company mourned the entertainer and expressed shock and disappointment. Friday’s discover didn’t disclose the reason for demise, which the label stated is below investigation.
Last Friday, Nakayama’s web site announced that she wouldn’t go forward with a Christmas-themed live performance in Osaka set for that night. The occasion was canceled because of the singer’s poor well being.
Nakayama, born March 1, 1970 in Tokyo, launched her leisure profession in 1985, already balancing performing and music. That similar 12 months, Nakayama made his tv debut with roles in a number of sequence on Japanese tv TBS, together with the comedy “Maido Osawagase Shimasu”; launched his first single “C” and starred in a live-action movie adaptation of the manga sequence “Be-Bop High School.”
Nakayama’s rise to fame got here shortly after the emergence of metropolis pop – a style popularized by artists together with Miki Matsubara, Mariya Takeuchi and Anri – and the beginnings of J-pop. Also recognized for her music “Waku Waku Sasete,” Nakayama launched a gradual stream of latest music — together with the albums “After School,” “Catch the Nite” and “Mind Game” — within the first decade of her profession.
After the flip of the century, Nakayama appeared to decelerate his musical output, turning his consideration to performing. She launched her most up-to-date album “Neuf Neuf” in 2019 and steadily carried out reside till her demise.
Beyond music, Nakayama has loved a different performing profession spanning greater than 30 years and dozens of tv and movie credit, together with memorable roles within the 1995 romance movie “Love Letter.” Directed by Shunji Iwai, “Love Letter” starred Nakayama as each a lady grieving for her late boyfriend and his surprising pen pal.
The movie, launched within the United States below the title “When I Close My Eyes,” earned Nakayama performing awards on the Hochi Film Awards and the Blue Ribbon Awards. The movie additionally earned a nomination in 1996 for the Japan Academy Film Prize.
Iwai, in a press release shared in English and Japanese on Facebookhe stated he and Nakayama deliberate to reunite within the new 12 months to have a good time his movie’s thirtieth anniversary. The director, hesitant to “give formal phrases of remembrance”, stated he felt frustration and “deep remorse” on the information of Nakayama’s demise.
“Tonight, even when solely in spirit, I wish to be by your aspect,” he added.
Nakayama additionally received recognition for his work in Naoto Takenaka’s 1997 movie “Tokyo Biyori” a couple of photographer grieving the lack of his spouse. Her performing credit additionally embrace the movies “Last Letter,” “Butterfly Sleep,” “Goodbye, Someday” and the sequence “Love Story” and “Sailor Fuku Hangyaku Doumei,” amongst others. She lately appeared in a 2022 episode of “Mahou no Rinobe.”
Nakayama leaves behind a son and her ex-husband, writer-composer Hitonari Tsuji, in response to the BBC.
