Minako Yoshida

Minako Yoshida (吉田美奈子) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and composer who began her solo career in the mid-1970s and is associated with city pop, soul and jazz-fusion styles. Her music blends sophisticated harmonies, funk and jazz-influenced arrangements with pop songwriting, evolving through the 1980s and later becoming part of the city pop canon that attracted renewed international interest in the 2010s.