Enka (演歌) is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical...

Enka (艶華 -Enka-) is the enka covers album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori. It was released on 27 June 2007 under Universal Music Japan. It is Nakamori's...

full-length album released by the Japanese boyband Kanjani Eight.The album features a full 14 tracks that dabble in generic pop, rock, and Enka. Majority...

Kiyoshi Hikawa (氷川 きよし, Hikawa Kiyoshi) is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977, in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. His real name is Kiyoshi...

be the first non-Japanese enka singer. He went to Japan to study the agricultural industry, and there he began to prefer enka. He earned popularity via...

needed] Her debut album, Shinjuku no Onna/Enka no Hoshi Fuji Keiko no Subete (新宿の女/「演歌の星」藤圭子のすべて, Woman in Shinjuku/"Star of Enka" All of Keiko Fuji)...

She has released over 100 albums (including compilation albums) and more than 120 singles, of which a few were not enka, but rock and jazz music instead...

stage name Jero (ジェロ), is an American enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent who is the first black enka singer in Japanese music history. In...

group Kanjani Eight, which debuted with modern enka, before he left the group in 2018. His first solo album Nisai was released in October 2019. Shibutani...

classical music. Ryūkōka ultimately split into two genres: enka and poppusu. Unlike enka, archetypal ryūkōka songs did not use the kobushi method of...

Year Best Enka/Kayokyoku Artist Best Enka/Kayokyoku New Artist Single of the Year Song of the Year by Download Song of the Year by Streaming Album of the...

"Sukiyanen, Osaka/Oh! Enka/Mugendai" (好きやねん、大阪。/桜援歌(Oh!ENKA)/無限大, Sukiyanen, Ōsaka./Ōenka/Mugendai) is the third single released by the Japanese boyband...

he listened to all kinds of music such as jazz, classical music, pop, and enka. Starting at 12 years old, Fujii uploaded various piano and vocal cover videos...

successful career in Japan in the 1980s, where she is known as "the empress of enka." The daughter of a barber in Gwangju, Kim was encouraged by her father to...

Along with enka singer Keiko Fuji, they won "the award for mass popularity" at the 12th Japan Record Awards in 1970. Keiko Fuji's 1970 album Shinjuku no...

Kayōkyoku in the narrower and more practical sense, however, excludes J-pop and enka. Unlike "J-pop" singers such as Southern All Stars' Keisuke Kuwata, the singers...

1948 (age 76) Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan Origin Ikeda, Osaka, Japan Genres Enka, kayōkyoku Occupation(s) Idol, singer, actress Labels Victor Entertainment...

birth name Yuki Takajō), born May 11, 1996, in Chiba, Japan, is a Japanese enka and kayōkyoku singer, who debut on the first day of Reiwa, on 1 May 2019...

fourth studio album by Japanese model-singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, released on September 26, 2018, by Warner Music Japan sublabel Unborde. The album debuted at...

was released in 1983. Ishikawa has re-recorded Amagi-goe for her remix album Shunka (春夏) released in 1999 by Pony Canyon. This version is also included...

song is best known for being sung by enka singer Keiko Fuji. The song was included in her album Shinjuku no Onna/ 'Enka no Hoshi' Fuji Keiko no Subete (lit...

debut album Star in 1993, with the hope to debut in America; the album only peaked at thirty-three in Japan. Utada's mother was a Japanese enka singer...

to the Avex Trax label for 22 years, Shimatani started her career as an Enka singer with the release of her debut single "Ōsaka no Onna" (大阪の女, Ōsakan...

concept album titled Hana Kuyou –Sanbyaku Rokuju Go Nichi Koi Moyou and was not intended for single release. Prior to the release of the album, Ishikawa...

released their second studio album Legendaarne (Legendary), which consisted of 18 songs. The most famous songs from the album were "Legendaarne" and "Pankrot"...

(増田明代 Masuda Akiyo) née Hashimoto (橋本明代 Hashimoto Akiyo), was a Japanese enka singer and painter. Her stage name "Yashiro" was adopted from her hometown...

The Billboard Japan Hot Albums, also referred to as Combined Albums, is the primary album record chart published by Billboard Japan. It is released weekly...

From age 7, she practiced two hours a day with her father to become an enka singer. At 9, she won a local singing contest (the Chibikko Nodo Jiman Daikai...

"Hare-butai" for Jero, Japan's first black enka singer. Ashita wa Haremasu You Ni was Nakamura's third studio album, released on 25 February 2009 in both standard...

The album includes 9 versions of 4 songs, including 3 new enka songs, all of which recorded in Japanese. The album was released through 'Enka! Avex...