Mariya Takeuchi
| Mariya Takeuchi 竹内 まりや |
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| Born |
March 20, 1955 Taisha, Shimane, Japan |
| Genres | Japanese pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, composer and lyricist |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitars |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Labels | RCA(1978-1982) Alfa Moon (1984-1987) Moon / MMG (1987-1993) Moon / East West Japan(1994-1997) Moon / Warner Music Japan (1998-present) |
| Website | Official |
Mariya Takeuchi (竹内 まりや Takeuchi Mariya?, born March 20, 1955) is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She is from Taisha, Shimane, now the city of Izumo.
Takeuchi was born in Taisha city in the Hikawa district of Shimane Prefecture. She spent a year studying in the United States while she was at high school. Her musical career started in 1978 while she was studying at Keio University, with the single "Modotte-Oide, Watashi no Jikan" (Please come back, my time) and the album Beginning. The 1979 single "September" and the 1980 single "Fushigi na Piichi Pai" (Mysterious Peach Pie) were both hits. Takeuchi has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta.
Up to December 2008, Takeuchi had released 11 studio albums, 35 singles, several compilations and a live album which was recorded in 2000. Her total sales have been estimated at more than 16 million units by 2009. Her 1994 compilation, Impressions, sold more than 3 million copies in Japan alone, and became her best-selling album.
Her husband is the musician Tatsuro Yamashita, with whom she has one daughter.
In 1978, while studying at Keio University, Takeuchi started her career with a single "Modotte-Oide, Watashi no Jikan". From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, she recorded five albums and several singles, including the top-ten hit "Fushigi na Peach Pie". Those recordings featured dozens of prominent Japanese and North American songwriters, instrumentalists and producers, including David Foster, Jim Keltner, Jay Graydon, Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, David Hungate, Kazuhiko Kato, Kunihiko Kase, Shigeru Suzuki, Takashi Matsumoto and her future partner and husband, Tatsuro Yamashita. "Heart to Heart", one of her songs (co-written by Roger Nichols, released in 1980) was recorded by The Carpenters two years later, and was the last recording for the late Karen Carpenter.
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