Ikue Asazaki

Ikue Asazaki (Japanese朝 崎 郁 恵, Asazaki Ikue, born November 11, 1935 on the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese singer of traditional folk music.

Raised in Setouchi, it was early on by her father with the traditional music of Amami ( Amami Shimauta ) and Okinawa familiar. From Yokohama, where she lived for ten years in 1984, she moved to Tokyo to there, close to ten years, to perceive an exposure to the Japanese National Theatre. In 1990 she made ​​appearances at Carnegie Hall (New York), Los Angeles and Cuba. In 2002 she published Utabautayun what it is to listen to traditional songs and texts of the Ryukyu Islands. In 2007 she joined as the first artist from Kagoshima at the Ikegami Honmon -ji Temple in Tokyo.

Ikue Asazaki worked throughout her career with numerous artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, UA or Daikichi Yoshida together. Her most famous shots counts Obokuri - Eeumi which can be heard in the anime series Samurai Champloo. Your first best of album was released in 2008 by Universal.

Discography

  • Umibi (1997)
  • Utabautayun (2002)
  • Uta- jima诗 岛(2002)
  • Uta Ashiibi ( Uta Asobi ) (2003 )
  • Obokuri (2005)
  • Shimayumuta (2006)
  • Hamasaki (2007)
  • Featuring Best (2008)

Evidence and links

  • Official Site
  • Amami Shimauta
  • Japanese musicians
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1935
  • Woman
  • Traditional Japanese Music
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