Saturday, October 25

Kikuchi Momoko

Kikuchi Momoko was born on May 4, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. Momoko started out not singing, but actually in modeling and acting. She began modeling in 1983, her first booking as an image girl for a science magazine (I can't imagine many idols being much for science.) In 1984 she got her musical breakthrough, and debuted her first single "Seishun no ijiwaru" on the same day as idol Okada Yukiko's debut, introducing them as a rival pair of sorts. Momoko was thought sure to win the Idol Rookie award of 1984, but instead it went to Yukiko. Momoko; however, hit the number one spot first, and produced many of them. She hit her first number one in 1985 with her 4th single and had a neat string of six consecutive number ones after that. Her music was a breath of fresh air among the many monotonous idol voices of her time, and it also helped to initiate the 2nd wave of idols in the 80s. In 1988 she traded in her solo career for starting up a rock band which was named "Ra Mu" (though they weren't much of a rock band, but more like pop still.) The industry was trying to match them up with Honda Minako and her band THE WILDCATS. They actually did much better than Minako and her band, but like them as well Ra Mu broke up after only a year, releasing four singles in the process, three of which made the top ten. After her venture with the band, Momoko decided she wanted to return to acting. In 1995, she got married to professional golfer, Nishikawa Akira. She now has two children, and still continues to be active in the world of fame by commonly staring in dramas and commercials, as well as releasing cookbooks. Her most famous singles are: "Yuki ni kaita LOVE LETTER", "Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-", "BOY no Theme", and "Nile in Blue."

Personal Favorite Momoko Song: Broken Sunset
Number ones: 7
Top ten percentage: 14 out of 19 songs = 74%

img00022528800.jpg momoko stare image by ViergeForestkikutimomokogoro.jpg momoko magazine image by ViergeForest379002_400_300.jpg momoko petals image by ViergeForest20070206081931.jpg older momoko image by ViergeForest


Singles
#Song TitleRelease DateHighest PositionMy RatingPicture
1.Seishun no ijiwaru4/21/1984138/10 469939.jpg seishun no ijiwaru image by ViergeForest
2.SUMMER EYES7/10/198478/10 469946.jpg summer eyes image by ViergeForest
3.Yuki ni kaita LOVE LETTER11/1/198438/10 469949.jpg yuki ni kaita love letter image by ViergeForest
4.Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-2/27/198519/10 469960.jpg sotsugyou -graduation- image by ViergeForest
5.BOY no Theme5/15/198519/10 469970.jpg boy no theme image by ViergeForest
6.Mou aenai kamoshirenai9/26/198517/10 469974.jpg mou aenai kamoshirenai image by ViergeForest
7.Broken Sunset2/13/1986110/10 record07.jpg broken sunset image by ViergeForest
8.Natsuiro kataomoi5/14/198618/10 469986.jpg natsuiro kataomoi image by ViergeForest
9.Say Yes!9/3/198618/10 record09.jpg say yes! image by ViergeForest
10.Idol wo sagase3/25/198717/10 469999.jpg idol wo sagase image by ViergeForest
11.Nile in Blue7/29/198729/10 469996.jpg nile in blue image by ViergeForest
12.Glass no sougen10/8/198748/10 469997.jpg glass no sougen image by ViergeForest
13.Ai wa kokoro no shigoto desu (w/Ra Mu)2/24/198896/10 record13s.jpg ai wa kokoro no shigoto desu image by ViergeForest
14.Shounen wa tenshi wo korosu (w/Ra Mu)6/8/198848/10 record14s.jpg shounen wa tenshi wo korosu image by ViergeForest
15.TOKYO yabanjin (w/Ra Mu)7/27/198887/10 record15s.jpg tokyo yabanjin image by ViergeForest
16.Aoyama Killer Monogatari (w/Ra Mu)2/8/198919- record16s.jpg aoyama killer monogatari image by ViergeForest
17.Chigau, sou ja nai1/12/1994-- cd_s4s.jpg chigau, sou ja nai image by ViergeForest
18.Shibuya de 5ji (w/Suzuki Masayuki)2/1/1996-5/10 cd_s5s.jpg shibuya de goji image by ViergeForest
19.Koi no Flight Time~12pm~ (w/Suzuki Masayuki)5/28/2008-6/10 unable.jpg unable image by ViergeForest

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you considered making these albums available via torrent or download? I am as major a fan as one can be yet have only been able to procure a fraction of the Momoko Kikuchi albums you have listed in your bio of her career. Feel free to contact me: mjk3nine@yahoo.com
-mk

Anonymous said...

Hello, I am another huge fan of Momoko Kikuchi.
Have you already decided torrent or download?
Feel free to contact me: mangafreak145@hotmail.com

Anonymous said...

Recently I've been reading Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen.

Would anyone know what tune the narrator and Yuichi are singing while cleaning up? I want to do a short note on my blog and post the music with it.. haha but now I can't find the right song!

I managed to find out that it's a song by Momoko Kikuchi (not Sakuchi as translator Megan Backus believes).

Does anybody know which song by this Japanese 80's pop star features a lighthouse?

Anonymous said...

@ booktunes.

Hopefully you will have time to see this.

If I am not mistaken, the song you're looking for is: Futari no Night Drive by Kikuchi Momoko.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebU7lpjOyFU

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