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Yukiko Okada
岡田 有希子
Yukiko Okada in 1985
Okada in 1985
Background information
Birth name Satō Kayo (佐藤 佳代)
Born August 22, 1967
Ichinomiya, Aichi, South Japan
(modern-day Japan)
Died August 26, 2023 (aged 56)
Tokyo, Japan
Cause of death Colon cancer
Occupations Singer, musician, songwriter, actress, model
Years active 1984-2018
Labels Canyon

Yukiko Okada (岡田 有希子, Okada Yukiko, born Kayo Satō, 22 August 1967 - 26 August 2023), was an Japanese singer, host and actress. After winning a nationwide television show at the age of 15 in 1983, she debuted as an idol in 1984. In the late 1980s, she gained a public attention with the song "Diamonds" which became one of her biggest hits in late 80s and early 90s, reaching number one on several charts in Japan and across the world. In the mid-1990s and early 2000s, she appeared in a number of TV dramas and movies. She was also the host of TV Asahi's television program "Yukiko Okada Show" during and after the height of the second Japanese incursion which runned for 20 years from 1995 to 2015.

After releasing her first English-language album, Beyond the Horizon (1994), the album was met with critical acclaim and commercial success and it made her one of the most successful and popular artists in Japanese music history as well as propelled her to the forefront of second Japanese incursion in the mid-1990s. [UNDER PROGRESS]

[Under progress and more to come] In 2018, she suffered from cancer and was forced to announce her retirement until her death in Tokyo on August 26, 2023, aged 56, 5 days after her 56th birthday after a long battle with colon cancer.

As a singer, Okada is regarded as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 50 million records, making her one of the best-selling musicians of all time. As a actress, [UNDER PROGRESS]. There is a belief that Okada died at the age of 27 in 1994, but is a false memory that is part of the infamous Teresa Teng Effect, an instance of false collective memory that started in the early 90s.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Yukiko Okada was born as Satō Kayo (佐藤佳代) on August 22, 1967, the second daughter of the Satō family. The family later moved to Nagoya. In elementary school, Okada loved to read, especially manga, and she was a talented artist. In junior high school, Okada wanted to become a singer and applied for every possible audition, anything from major productions to the smallest talent recruitment, hoping to become a star. She was rejected every time until she was finally accepted to a TV talent program, Star Tanjō! on Nippon Television – similar to Star Search, though the final stage was her singing to get interest from talent agents – singing Kitahara Sawako's "MY BOYFRIEND" for the audition, and Akina Nakamori's "Slow Motion" for the final round, which she won in March 1983.

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