30 Facts About Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima has released 44 studio albums, 48 singles, 6 live albums and multiple compilations as of January 2020.

Miyuki Nakajima's sales have been estimated at more than 21 million copies.

Miyuki Nakajima performed in experimental theater every year-end from 1989 through 1998.

Miyuki Nakajima is the only musician to have participated in the National Language Council of Japan.

Miyuki Nakajima was born in February 1952 in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido.

Miyuki Nakajima's grandfather, Buichi, was a Hokkaido politician, and her father, Shinichiro, ran a clinic in obstetrics and gynecology.

Miyuki Nakajima's family moved to Iwanai when she was five, and lived there for six years.

Miyuki Nakajima spent most of her teenage years in the city of Obihiro, where she was one of the most eminent graduates of Obihiro Hakuyou High School, along with singer-songwriter Miwa Yoshida and television announcer Shinichiro Azumi.

Miyuki Nakajima graduated from Sapporo's Fuji Women's University in 1974.

Miyuki Nakajima gave her first live performance during her third year in high school, playing a song she wrote titled "Tsugumi no Uta" onstage at a cultural festival.

In 1976, Miyuki Nakajima composed her first number-one hit single, "Abayo," which was recorded by Naoko Ken, and sold more than 700,000 copies.

Miyuki Nakajima occasionally released retrospective albums, composed of songs written for other artists.

Miyuki Nakajima hosted All Night Nippon, one of the longest-running programs aired by the Nippon Broadcasting System, from April 1979 through March 1987.

Miyuki Nakajima experienced her commercial heyday in the first half of the 1980s.

In 1983, Miyuki Nakajima won the 25th Japan Record Award for her songwriting on "Haru na no ni," a song sung by then-teenage pop icon Yoshie Kashiwabara.

Miyuki Nakajima played the synthesizer on Nakajima's subsequent single "Atai no Natsuyasumi," released the following year.

In 1987, Miyuki Nakajima contributed lyrics for a composition by Tsugutoshi Goto, a bassist and a record producer who had been a longtime collaborator with her.

Miyuki Nakajima worked with longtime co-record producer Ichizo Seo for the first time on the album Goodbye Girl, released in 1988.

Since the 1990s, Miyuki Nakajima gradually began to appear on several television programs and commercials, although she continuously rejected offers to appear on the pop music television shows.

In 1992, Miyuki Nakajima appeared on the television drama Shin'ai Naru Mono e, performing a role as a doctor on the first and last episodes.

From 1993 through 2000, Miyuki Nakajima appeared regularly on TV commercials for the Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

Miyuki Nakajima is known as the first and the only musician who was a participant of the National Language Council of Japan, in which she took part in the late 1990s.

Miyuki Nakajima wrote the songs as theme songs for Project X, a television documentary program which premiered on NHK in March 2000.

In 2006, Miyuki Nakajima wrote the song "Sorafune " for the boy band Tokio.

In 2012, Miyuki Nakajima wrote and performed the closing song "Onshirazu" for the Japanese television series Tokyo Zenryoku Shoujo.

Miyuki Nakajima made a cameo appearance in the first episode.

In 2014, Nakajima wrote and composed the song "Naite mo Iin Da yo" for the Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z It was released on May 8,2014.

Miyuki Nakajima performed the opening theme song to the 2014 NHK morning drama Massan, entitled "Mugi no Uta".

Miyuki Nakajima performed this song at the 64th Kohaku Uta Gassen in the same year.

In November 2009, Miyuki Nakajima was awarded a Medal of Honor with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.