[Artists from Akita Prefecture] A comprehensive showcase from famous popular singers to up-and-coming bands

Cinderella Love!pramo

Akita local idol group “pramo”’s new song “Cinderella Love!” HD

pramo is a five-member idol group from Akita Prefecture with a concept centered on local pride.

This winter-themed song is pramo’s first love song, packed with girlish charm.

It also features unusually mature lyrics for pramo, which is part of its appeal.

Love it, love it! I’m a natto lover!itō mayu

Mayu Ito - Suki Suki! Nattō-ski (Together with Everyone Version)

Suki Suki! Natto-ski is a song danced by Mayu Ito, who used to work as the gymnastics host on an NHK educational program.

You might have danced to it together with your child when they were little.

It’s a song that puts you in a cheerful, happy mood.

Akita JinkuSatō Sadako

Akita Jinku (Sadako Sato) 80 rpm

Sadako Sato was a folk singer from Kamishiro Village (now Semboku City) known by epithets such as the “Queen of Akita Obako” and the “Okuni of Akita.” In 1922, she won first place at the National Performing Arts Competition.

“Akita Jinku” is a folk song sung during Bon dances and drinking gatherings.

Akita Funakata-bushiOno Hanako

Takahashi Shujiro Akita Funakata-bushi Song: Ono Hanako akitafunakatabusi takahasi shujiro

Akita is known as a region where folk songs are thriving and has many folk singers; Hanako Ono, who has won first place in Japan for folk singing, is one of them.

It is said that “Akita Funakata-bushi” is a folk song that has been sung in the geisha district of Tsuchizaki, located at the mouth of the Omono River.

Akita ObakoSaitō Kyōko

Folk Song “Akita Obako” (Kyoko Saito)

Kyoko Saito is a folk singer from Sakae Village (now Akita City).

Both of her parents were also folk singers, and she joined them on tours from a young age.

She made her debut in 1953.

Akita Obako is a folk song from Akita Prefecture, and obako means “girl.”

Harvest Moon over Mount AkagiTōkairin Tarō

Taro Shoji Meigetsu Akagiyama

Taro Tokairin was a singer born in the Meiji era and a native of Akita City.

He studied vocal music under Keisuke Shimoyagawa, and his song “Akagi no Komoriuta,” released in 1934 by Nippon Polydor Phonograph Co., Ltd.

(the predecessor of today’s Universal Music), became a hit.

He went on to release a number of other hits, such as “Meigetsu Akagiyama,” and appeared four times on NHK’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen.

He is remembered for his distinctive performance style: wearing round glasses, standing perfectly straight, and singing with his mouth wide open.

He was also the first president of the Japan Singers Association and is revered as a great Japanese vocalist who devoted his entire being to song.

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My Blue BirdSakurada Junko

Junko Sakurada – My Blue Bird (1973)

Junko Sakurada, who was active as an idol singer and actress and is currently on hiatus from the entertainment industry, is also from Akita City in Akita Prefecture.

Along with her contemporaries Masako Mori and Momoe Yamaguchi, she was known as one of the “Flower Trio of Third-Year Middle School” and was very popular.

This signature song of hers won numerous awards and became a major hit.