Mariya Takeuchi is a Japanese singer and songwriter.
14 Facts About Mariya Takeuchi
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Mariya Takeuchi's husband is Tatsuro Yamashita, a singer-songwriter and record producer.
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Mariya Takeuchi then announced she would go on a temporary hiatus in 1981, terminating her contract with RCA records.
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Mariya Takeuchi has stayed with the Moon record label, working with the different branches since signing in 1984 and since 1998 has been signed with Warner Music Japan, with whom she released the single "Inochi no Uta" in 2012, for which she re-recorded in 2020; the latter of which charted at No 1 on Oricon Charts, making her the oldest Japanese singer to achieve a No 1 single.
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Mariya Takeuchi was born in Taisha in the Hikawa district of Shimane Prefecture in Japan.
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Mariya Takeuchi grew up in the family Shinise Ryokan business by the name of Takenoya, that her paternal great grandfather Shigezo Takeuchi founded in 1877.
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Mariya Takeuchi had already learned to play piano and guitar by third grade, but the Beatles left an impression that inspired her to travel.
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Mariya Takeuchi's nickname was Mako, as one of the AFS yearbooks has a caption that reads Mariya "Mako" Takeuchi.
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Mariya Takeuchi entered the Japanese Keio University in 1974, majoring in English literature and won a nationwide English recitation contest by The Japan Times in the spring of that year.
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Mariya Takeuchi married fellow musician Tatsuro Yamashita in April 1982.
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Mariya Takeuchi joined the music club of her university and there she was invited to participate in Masamichi Sugi's recordings and in March 1978 so-called the omnibus album Loft Sessions recordings.
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Mariya Takeuchi has had one song "Apple Papple Princess" that appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta.
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Mariya Takeuchi has often re-recorded those songs for her own album.
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Up to September 2014, Mariya Takeuchi had released 12 studio albums, 42 singles, several compilations and a live album which was recorded in 2000.