Kyu Sakamoto

Kyu Sakamoto "坂本九" (real name "Hisasi Osima") was a singer and actor, born on December 10, 1941 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Sakamoto's song "Sukiyaki" became the first Japanese song in the United States to sell a million copies and reached No.1 on a music chart on June 15, 1963.^[1] Its original (Japanese) title is "上を向いて歩こう" which means "I look up as I walk". He died on August 12, 1985 in an airplane accident during a flight on Japan Airlines Flight 123) aboard from Kanagawa in Japan.^[2]

His hit songs

His major hit songs were as follows.^[3]

何もいらない俺だけど (1959)
悲しき六十才 (1960)
ステキなタイミング (Good Timi`n) (1960)
月夜に歩けば (Walkin' in The Moonlight) (1961)
カレンダーガール (Calendar Girl) (1961)
見上げてごらん夜の星を (1963)
上を向いて歩こう (Sukiyaki) (1963)
幸せなら手をたたこう (1964)
涙くんさよなら (1965)^[4]

Notes

↑ "今から50年前、全米を制したのは日本の音楽だった。 | Special". Billboard JAPAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
↑ "特集：日航ジャンボ機墜落事故". www.jijiphoto.jp. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
↑ "Single Record". Sakamoto Kyu Officiai Web-site (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
↑ words and music by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi.

Outer links

Kyu Sakamoto Official Web Site
Sukiyaki (上を向いて歩こう) with English translation and lyrics at YouTube

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[1] "今から50年前、全米を制したのは日本の音楽だった。 | Special". Billboard JAPAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.

[2] "特集：日航ジャンボ機墜落事故". www.jijiphoto.jp. Retrieved 2020-08-02.

[3] "Single Record". Sakamoto Kyu Officiai Web-site (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-02.

[4] words and music by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi.

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