Yukiko Okada
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| Yukiko Okada 岡田有希子 |
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 Yukiko Okada in 1985.
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| Birth name | 岡田有希子 (Okada、Yukiko) |
| Also known as | Yukko |
| Born | August 22, 1967 |
| Origin | Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | April 8, 1986 (aged 18) |
| Genre(s) | J-pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Actress, Model, Spokesperson |
| Years active | 1984-1986 |
| Label(s) | Pony Canyon |
Yukiko Okada (岡田有希子 Okada Yukiko) (August 22, 1967 – April 8, 1986 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture), known as Yukko to her fans, was a Japanese idol during the 1980s, signed to Pony Canyon records. She is still popular in spite of her death of more than 20 years ago.
Okada has been called the "legendary Seitouha (pure style) idol".[citation needed]
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[edit] Career
Yukiko debuted in April of 1984 with her first single "First Date" for the Sun Music Productions. She won the Japan Record Award for New Artists that year.
She also appeared in a Sci-Fi series called "Kinjirareta Mariko" (The Forbidden Mariko) in which she played the main character Mariko who possessed ESP powers for 12 episodes.
[edit] Death
Around 10 o'clock April 8, 1986, the 18-year-old Yukiko was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and sobbing. Two hours later, Okada jumped to her death from the seven-story Sun Music Agency building. [1] The reason for the suicide is still unknown. Her untimely death resulted in many copycat suicides and the christening of the neologism Yukko Syndrome (in reference to copycat suicides) in Japan. [2]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
- First Date (4/21/1984) [Glico's Cafe Jelly advertisement song]
- Little Princess (7/18/1984)
- -Dreaming Girl- Koi, hajimemashite (9/21/1984) [Glico's Special Chocolate advertisement song]
- Futari Dake no Ceremony (1/16/1985) [Toshiba's Let's Chat advertisement song]
- Summer Beach (4/17/1985) [Glico's Cafe Jelly advertisement song]
- Kanashii Yokan (7/17/1985)
- Love Fair (10/5/1985) [Glico's Cecil Chocolate advertisement song]
- Kuchibiru Network (1/29/1986) [Kanebo's Lipstick commercial]
- Hana no Image (5/14/1986) [Released posthumously]
- Believe in You (2002 strings version) (12/4/2002) [Released posthumously]
[edit] Albums
- Cinderella (シンデレラ)
- Okurimono (贈りもの Gift?)
- Fairy
- Jyūgatsu no Ningyo (十月の人魚 October Mermaid?)
- Okurimono II (贈りものII Gift II?)
- Venus Tanjō (ヴィーナス誕生 Birth of Venus?)
- Okurimono III (贈りものIII Gift III?) (heritage, Released posthumously)
- All Songs Request (posthumous singles collection)
