19 Facts About Junko Yagami

Junko Yagami, is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Aichi Prefecture.

Junko Yagami has released 25 albums, including 6 live concert albums, and is a notable figure in Japanese music of the 1970s and 1980s.

Junko Yagami started learning the piano at the age of 3 and Japanese dance from the 1st grade of elementary school.

Junko Yagami has loved singing since she was a child, and even at home she continued to sing the songs of The Peanuts and Shirley Bassey, which surprised her parents.

Junko Yagami started attending Yamaha's vocal talent school and was devoted to singing practice.

Junko Yagami started writing songs while she was in high school, and when she was 16 years old in 1974, she wrote and composed the song "Everyone on a Rainy Day" for the first time.

Junko Yagami participated in the 8th Yamaha Popular Song Contest held on October 13,1974, and won the Outstanding Song Award for "Everyone on a Rainy Day".

Junko Yagami was the only one who was nominated for two songs in the same tournament and won a prize at the same time after the final round was held at Tsumagoi.

Junko Yagami participated in the 9th Popcon held in May 1975 and won the Excellent Song Award for "To the Land of Happiness".

Junko Yagami participated in the 6th World Popular Song Festival with "Hand in Hand" and won for the second consecutive year.

Junko Yagami says she was invited by a foreign artist who participated in the World Popular Song Festival and decided to take on the challenge of overseas music festivals and contests.

Junko Yagami traveled to Los Angeles, USA for 54 days from April 1980, and stayed with an ordinary family.

The suspicions were cleared, and Junko Yagami made her first appearance in the "31st NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen" of the same year with this song.

Around this time, Junko Yagami was mentioned in a women's weekly magazine about her relationship with Hiromi Go, but according to Junko Yagami, he was only a friend who went to movies and meals, not a lover.

On February 7,1986, Junko Yagami married John Stanley, a British music producer two years older than her, in Hawaii.

Junko Yagami moved to the United States in the fall and lives at Wood Ranch in Simi Valley, California.

Junko Yagami gave birth to her eldest daughter in 1989 and her eldest son in 1993.

Junko Yagami later said that she had thought "I've done it all" until then, but the appearance of the program and its response gave birth to the desire to sing in Japan again.

In 2022, Junko Yagami was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.