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...

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...

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)...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

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...

names of fellow Enka singers Hiroshi Itsuki and Aki Yashiro whom she greatly admired. Under that alias, she released her first major album, 'Modori Gawa'...

Kamitonda, Nishimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese female enka singer under EMI Music Japan. Having won a singing contest in early 1986...

synthesizers, is also used in this day and age, when enka singers cover traditional min'yō songs (enka being a Japanese music genre all its own). An ondo...

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...

1987, he had sold 20 million singles and 4 million LP albums. Itsuki is usually regarded as an enka singer, but he has also released a cover version of...

studio albums, 6 EPs and 5 singles. Yajima was born on April 28 in Sōja, Okayama Prefecture. She later moved to Kyoto. She grew up listening to enka music...

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

city pop genre. List of city pop artists Beach music, contemporary R&B, enka, new jack swing, urban contemporary, yacht rock, sophisti-pop — related music...