Momoe Yamaguchi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Momoe Yamaguchi
Occupation	Movie Actress
Date Of Birth	Jan 17, 1959(1959-01-17)
Age	65
Birthplace	Ebisu
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Capricorn

Momoe Yamaguchi Biography

Momoe Yamaguchi is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on January 17, 1959 in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese actress and singer. She had a career that spanned from 1972 to 1980. During this time, she released 21 albums with three #1 hits.

She is a Japanese singer, Chiaki Curiyama.

Momoe Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口 百恵 , Hepburn: Yamaguchi Momoe, born 17 January 1959) is a Japanese former singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980. Often simply referred to by her given name “Momoe,” Yamaguchi is one of the most successful singers in Japanese music, releasing 32 singles, including three number one hits, and 21 studio albums. She also starred in 15 feature films and several television serial dramas. At age 21, Yamaguchi retired at the height of her popularity to marry her frequent costar, Tomokazu Miura; she has never performed or made a public appearance since.

Yamaguchi began a career in show business while she was still a student in junior high school. At the end of 1972, at the age of 13, Yamaguchi, along with many of her schoolmates, applied by postcard to appear on the idol talent search television show Star Tanjō!. After a series of successful preliminary auditions, she appeared on the show covering a hit song “Kaiten Mokuba”, by Yumi Makiba earlier that year. Though she finished second, Yamaguchi received offers from several music producers, and signed with Hori Productions. Her family moved to Tokyo. Yamaguchi transferred to Shinagawa Joshi Gakuin, and then attended Hinode Joshi Gakuin High School, a school which allows its students to carry on careers in show business.

In 1980, she married Tomokazu Miura.

Momoe Yamaguchi Net Worth

Momoe Yamaguchi is one of the richest Movie Actress from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Momoe Yamaguchi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was selected to appear on Star Tanjo! She was thirteen years old when she won the competition. After that, she signed with Hori Productions.

In 1981, she published Aoi Toki (an autobiography), in which she confessed to liking singing her songs over and again.

Momoe Yamaguchi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1959. Not long afterwards she was left in the care of her maternal grandparents. At around four, she returned to her parents and the family then moved to Yokohama. Without her father, a medical doctor who was already married to another women with children, having never married her mother. The family moved once again to Yokosuka. Her mother raised Momoe and her younger sister Toshie by herself. Toshie Yamaguchi studied in the states from part of high school to college while Momoe made a life in Japan. Momoe has a niece in the US who she has never met.

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Who is Momoe Yamaguchi Dating?

According to our records, Momoe Yamaguchi married to Tomokazu Miura. As of December 1, 2023, Momoe Yamaguchi’s is not dating anyone.

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With the on-screen romances between Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura, an off- screen romance grew. During a trip to Hawaii in early 1979, Miura proposed to Yamaguchi. She accepted, and she also said that she would retire from entertainment to marry him. Yamaguchi announced their relationship at a concert in October 1979, and the announcement about their marriage date and her retirement was made in March 1980. Billboard magazine stated in 1980 that the farewell concert by Momoe Yamaguchi was expected to gross $2.22 million. She performed the farewell concert at the Nippon Budokan on 5 October 1980, released her last album This is my trial on 21 October 1980, and released her last single “Ichie” on 19 November 1980. By the time of her retirement, Yamaguchi was responsible for over 25% of the sales at Horipro. She also wrote the lyrics to this song under the pen name “Kei Yokosuka”, and continued to write a few songs for a while after retirement, such as Ann Lewis’s La Saison from 1982.

Facts & Trivia

Momoe Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Momoe Yamaguchi celebrates birthday on January 17 of every year.

In 1981, she wrote a book of autobiographical essays called Aoi Toki, which sold over a million copies in its first month of publication.