Momoe yamaguchi

Often simply referred to by her given name "Momoe", Yamaguchi is one of the most successful singers in Japanese music, releasing 32 singles, including three number one hits, and 21 studio albums. She also starred in 15 feature films and several television serial dramas. At age 21, Yamaguchi retired at the height of her popularity to marry her frequent costar, Tomokazu Miura ; she has never performed or made a public appearance since.

Not long afterwards she was left in the care of her maternal grandparents. At around four, she returned to her parents and the family then moved to Yokohama. Her father, a medical doctor who was married to another woman with children, was never married to her mother. The family moved once again to Yokosuka.

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Her mother raised Momoe and her younger sister Toshie by herself. Toshie Yamaguchi studied in the US from partway through high school to college while Momoe made a life in Japan. Momoe has a niece in the US who she has never met. Yamaguchi began a career in show business while she was still a student in junior high school. After a series of successful preliminary auditions, she appeared on the show covering a hit song "Kaiten Mokuba", [ n 1 ] by Yumi Makiba [ n 2 ] earlier that year itself a cover of "Prima Vera" written by The Ventures.

Though she finished second, Yamaguchi received offers from several music producers, and signed with Hori Productions. Yamaguchi transferred to Shinagawa Joshi Gakuin, and then attended Hinode Joshi Gakuin High School, a school which allows its students to carry on careers in show business.

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Her first single, "Toshigoro", coupled with her first movie of the same title, did not fare well in the charts, peaking at 37 on the Oricon singles chart. But her second single "Aoi Kajitsu" peaked at number 9. Japanese pop culture historians [ who?