Mayumi Itsuwa - Ribaibaru

Mayumi Itsuwa  Biography

Mayumi Itsuwa (五輪 真弓, Itsuwa Mayumi^?) (born January 24, 1951) is a Japanese vocalist, composer, lyricist, and keyboardist who made her debut in 1972.

Her first studio album entitled Shoujo was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by GRAMMY Award winner John Fischbach, with distinguished musicians such as David Campbell, Carole King and Charles Larkey who was King's husband at that time. 

Owing to her introspective compositions, Itsuwa was often nicknamed "Japanese Carole King", along with other Japanese singer-songwriters like Yumi Matsutoya (who had worked under her birth name "Yumi Arai" during the mid 1970s) and Minako Yoshida.

Itsuwa gained moderate success on the Japanese albums chart in her early career, and received massive popularity and acclaim through a single "Koibito yo" released in 1980. A song topped the Japan's Oricon chart for three consecutive weeks, and won the 22nd Japan Record Award for "Gold Prize" in a same year. It was covered by the country's legendary singers including Hibari Misora and Noriko Awaya in later years, and became a signature song for Itsuwa.

After "Koibito yo" became a hit, Itsuwa gained popularity also in non-Japanese Asian countries during the 1980s.

In Indonesia,"Kokoro No Tomo" and "Amayadori" become the most popular songs ever released by her. In 2006, Mayumi Itsuwa and Delon Thamrin recorded an Indonesian and Japanese version of the song. This was later included on the 2006 compilation album "Duet Love Songs". Many of her songs would fall into the musical genre of "torch songs" because they often describe the lingering memory of past loves.

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Mayumi Itsuwa - Ribaibaru Lyrics

Furishikiru ame no naka o
Ashibaya ni toori sugita
Natsu no hi no inazuma no you ni
hakanaku kieta futari no koi
Aaaaahhhh...
Are hodo hageshiku moeta
Kokoro ga ima wa hai iro no ribaibaru
Aaaaahhhh...
Kurikaesu dake no omoide wa
yomigaeranu kako no monogatari
Yukizuri no hito naraba
Wasuraremo suru keredo
Namida gumu rasuto shin dewa
Ai no fukasa ni kizuite ita
Aaaaahhhh...
Arehodo yasashikatta anata no
Omokage ga ima wa aozametari ribaribaru
Aaaaahhhh....
Kurikaesu dake no omoide wa
Asu wo shiranu kako no monogatari
Aaaaahhhh...
Are hodo hageshiku moeta
Kokoro ga ima wa hai iro no ribaibaru
Aaaaahhhh...
Kurikaesu dake no omoide wa
Asu wo shiranu kako no monogatari
Aaaaahhhh...
Are hodo hageshiku moeta
Kokoro ga ima wa hai iro no ribaibaru
Aaaaahhhh....
Kurikaesu dake no omoide wa
Asu wo shiranu kako no monogatari

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