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Maki Asakawa
Maki Asakawa | |
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Asakawa on the cover of the compilation album Darkness IV (2007) | |
| Born | (1942-01-27)January 27, 1942 Mikawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
| Died | January 17, 2010(2010-01-17) (aged 67) Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
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| Years active | 1967–2010 |
Musical artist
Maki Asakawa (Japanese: 浅川マキ, Hepburn: Asakawa Maki, January 27, 1942 – January 17, 2010) was a Japanese jazz and blues singer, lyricist and composer.
Known as the "Queen of the Underground" (アングラの女王, Angura no Joō),[1][2][3] she was an important voice of Japan's urban counterculture.[4]
It was written in The Japan Times that she "made her name in 1970" with The World of Maki Asakawa and is known for songs like "Yo ga Aketara" and "Kamome", as well as for the Darkness collections.[5] Thom Jurek of AllMusic described her album Blue Spirit Blues (1972) as "perhaps