Chiyako Sato


Chiyako Satō was a Japanese singer.

Biography

The Japanese singer Chiyako Satō was born in Tendō, Yamagata in 1897.
After graduating the Tokyo Music School and the composer Shinpei Nakayama. In the early Shōwa period she achieved enormous success with "Habu no Minato" recorded at Japan Victor Company, and followed this up with "Tōkyō Kōshinkyoku".
In 1930, she went to study in Italy, but upon returning to Japan in 1935 she was unable to reclaim her position in the Japanese show business world. She died in obscurity in 1968.

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