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高橋真梨子

(Mariko Takahashi)

Japanese ballad-led singer-songwriter Mariko Takahashi (高橋真梨子, Takahashi Mariko) was born on 6 March 1949 in Hiroshima Prefecture and began her musical trajectory in the early 1970s, starting out with cover songs before graduating to her own creations with her solo debut single of 1978, "Anata no Sora wo Tobitai." She had suffered a series of childhood tragedies prior to becoming a songwriter; her father was a jazz musician who worked in Hiroshima City but died at 37 from the effects of radiation exposure following the atomic bombing. She was inspired by her father to pursue a c...