MINAKO YOSHIDA - Topic

Minako Yoshida is a Japanese singer, lyricist, and composer. She made her professional debut as a singer after meeting Happy End members Haruomi Hosono and Takashi Matsumoto during high school. Following her 1973 debut album Tobira no Fuyu, she released a few dozen albums and singles under RCA Victor, Alfa Records, MCA Victor, and Avex IO, and won the 1985 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Silver Award. She also worked as a composer and lyricist, with her work including the Tatsuro Yamashita albums Circus Town, Spacy and For You, as well as a music producer, arranger, and backup singer. Since the 2010s, she has enjoyed renewed popularity due to the city pop wave.