Mayumi Horikawa

Mayumi Horikawa (堀川まゆみ, Horikawa Mayumi) is a model and singer-songwriter born on 2 May 1958 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan of a Filipino father and a Japanese mother. Her younger sister is singer Reimy. Horikawa was selected as the fourth Clarion Girl in 1978, and made her debut as a singer that same year under producer Masataka Matsutōya.^[1] After refusing an offer to be in the 1984 film Oiran, she stopped making public appearances. Beginning in 1985, she began working under the name "Mayumi" when she began composing songs. Since then, she has written many hits in her "city pop" style.

Horikawa has written and composed songs for popular artists including Miki Imai, Jun'ichi Inagaki, Yukiko Okada, Kyōko Koizumi, Yuki Saito, Noriko Sakai, Miho Nakayama, Yū Hayami, Chiemi Hori, Saori Yagi, and Marina Watanabe.^[1]

Discography

Albums

• The Elm-Passing Girl (楡（エルム）通りの少女, Erumu Tōri no Shōjo) (1978)
• Maym (1986)
• Olive (1979)

Composition

• Almost Steady (もうすぐSteady, Mō Sugu Sutedī)
• Chestnut Hair in the Wind (風の中の栗毛, Kaze no Naka no Kurige)
• Coke Bottle Letter (コーク壜の手紙, Kōkubin no Tegami)
• Daddy (ダディー, Dadī)
• Glass Road (ガラスの街, Garasu no Machi)
• Last Phrase (ラスト・フレイズ, Rasuto Fureizu)
• Lemon Sense (レモン感覚, Remon Kankaku)
• Light and Shadow (光と影, Hikari to Kage)
• Song for Jenny (ソング・フォー・ジェニー, Songu fō Jenī)
• The Sun Has Yet to Rise (陽はまた昇る, Hi wa Mata Noboru)
• Tropical Cyclone (熱帯性低気圧, Nettaisei Teikiatsu)

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