Hibari Misora
29 May 1937 – 24 June 1989
Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer and actress who became one of the most widely recorded performers in Japanese popular music. She began performing as a child in the years after the Second World War and went on to release hundreds of singles and appear in more than 150 films. She was posthumously awarded the People's Honour Award in 1989.
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Life events
Born Kazue Kato, the daughter of a fishmonger in the Isogo district of Yokohama.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe sang at local events and amateur contests in the years immediately after the Second World War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe appeared in her first films and recorded early singles including Kappa Boogie-Woogie.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe film and its title song established her as a national star at the age of twelve.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe song became one of the best-selling Japanese records of the early post-war period.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA teenage fan threw hydrochloric acid at her at a theatre in Tokyo; she recovered and resumed performing.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe marriage ended in divorce two years later.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIllness forced her to suspend performing for much of the year.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe performed a long set at the newly opened stadium after recovering from illness; it was among her final major appearances.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe died of interstitial pneumonia at the age of 52.
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