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Yoko Nagayama (長山洋子; born January 13, 1968) is an Enka singer in Japan.She was born in Tokyo. She started singing pop music in 1984. Her first song is "Haru wa SA-RA SA-RA(春はSA-RA SA-RA)". But it didn't become famous. The cover version "Venus" ( Shocking Blue) brought success to her in 1986. The next song "You're My Love" was also a hit.
In 1993,she started the second life. That is, she began to sing Enka, a kind of melodramatic Japanese popular song. She got three prizes for the first song "Higurashi(蜩)". "Suterarete(捨てられて)" was also her famous song.
In 2003,new song "Jonkara Onnnabushi(じょんから女節)" was released. On TV or
in her concerts, She sings this song with her shamisen,a three stringed Japanese music instrument.
