Shizuko Kasagi

Person · Open Library

Born

1914

Died

1985

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Japan

Active from

1914-08-25

Active to

1985-03-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

433

Total plays

1,959

Shizuko Kasagi (Kasagi Shizuko, 笠置シヅ子) (August 25, 1914 - March 30, 1985) was a popular Japanese jazz singer and actress. Before World War II, she was one of the stars of the Japan Girls Opera Company. Following the war and during the American occupation she became a mega star singing songs influenced by American jazz and boogie woogie. She appeared in the 1948 film Drunken Angel directed by Akira Kurosawa. In 1957, Shizuko retired from singing and concentrated on her acting career. <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Self-organization mechanism in a bone-like hydroxyapatite/collagen nanocomposite synthesized in vitro and its biological reaction in vivo

   · 2001 · cited 775x

2. Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors, Report 14, 1950–2003: An Overview of Cancer and Noncancer Diseases

   · 2012 · cited 758x

3. Functional engraftment of colon epithelium expanded in vitro from a single adult Lgr5+ stem cell

   · 2012 · cited 748x

4. Biodiesel production from crude Jatropha curcas L. seed oil with a high content of free fatty acids

   · 2008 · cited 742x

5. Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs

   · 2003 · cited 729x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Empire of Japan

Occupation

jazz musician

Languages spoken

Japanese

Genre

jazz

Instrument

voice

Record label

Nippon Columbia

Image

Shizuko Kasagi.jpg

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