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Tokyo, Japan
Known for
- Perhaps He Is — Yoshiko Takayama2005
- The Laughing Frog2002
- The Goodbye Girls — Yoshie Yamanouchi1987
- The Human Revolution1973
- You Can Succeed, Too — Yôko Kataoka1964
- Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends1964
- Travel Stories of a Company President1963
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II — Katsuko Ueno (Secretary)1963
- The Danny Kaye Show — Self1963
- Bandits on the Wind1961
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Born in 1937 in Tokyo, Japan, Izumi Yukimura (雪村いづみ, real name Tomoko Asahina) was one of Japan's most popular singers in the 1950s and the early 1960s. She was famous for singing popular American songs in Japanese, with a special interest for cha-cha and mambo. She appeared in "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1963. Nicknamed "The Barbara Streisand of Japan", the N.Y. Journal-American of 1960 wrote of her: "Izumi Yukimura is a singer of great talent in much the same fashion as Mary Martin or Ethel Merm
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
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- name in native language
- 雪村いづみ
- date of birth
- 1937-03-20
- name in kana
- ゆきむら いづみ
- birth name
- 朝比奈 知子
- Commons category
- Izumi Yukimura
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
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