Martha Miyake

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Martha Miyake ( Japanese マ ー サ 三 宅 , Māsa Miyake , actually 三 宅 光子 , Miyake Mitsuko , born May 13, 1933 in Siping (then Manchukuo ), China ) is a Japanese jazz singer , stylistically assigned to traditional pop, swing and mainstream jazz .

Life

Martha Miyake began her career as a professional singer in 1955; first recordings were made in 1958 when she recorded a number of standards for King Records such as " My Melancholy Baby ", " Solitude ", " My Funny Valentine ", " Honeysuckle Rose " and " Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea ". In 1960 she recorded the album My Favorite Songs (London) with an accompanying band around the pianist Yuji Ohno . From the mid-1970s, a number of solo and duo albums followed such as A Song for You (Columbia 1976), What Is This Thing Called Life (Bellwood, 1976, with Yoshiko Goto ),My Heart Belongs to Teddy (Catalyst, 1977, with Teddy Wilson ), Portrait (Offbeat, 1981, with Norio Maeda ) and Remember ( Three Blind Mice , 1982) on which she was accompanied by Red Mitchell , Don Abney and Mike Reznikoff. The album Sophisticated Lady (King) was created in Los Angeles in 1993 , which she recorded with Conte Candoli , Bob Cooper , Lou Levy , Eric Von Essen and Ralph Penland . In the field of jazz, she was involved in 37 recording sessions between 1958 and 2011. In the film The Horror Sneaks Through Tokyo (1958, directed by Ishirō Honda ) she lent the leading actress Yumi Shirakawa her voice in two songs. In 1976 she made an appearance on the talk series Tetsuko no heya .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The recordings appeared on the LP Tokyo Canaries , coupled with songs by the singer Kiyoko Maruyama .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 26, 2017)
  3. ↑ Michael R. Pitts: Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1982 . 2010, p. 103
personal data
SURNAME Miyake, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES マ ー サ 三 宅 (Japanese, stage name); Miyake Mitsuko (real name); 三 宅 光子 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Siping , China