Yasuda Akiko, who sometimes takes the stage name Saori Yuki, is a Japanese TV
personality and singer who began her career in 1965 with the hit single
'Hitchhike Musume' on King Records under her birth name. Her first hit single
however came in 1969 with 'Yoake No Scat' which sold two million copies in her
home country in two months. As well as recording children's songs with her
sister Sachiko Yasuda, Soari Yuki is best known for her renditions in the
Japanese Kayokyoku style; this precursors J-pop and refers to the period from
1926 to 1989, enveloping many Japanese and Western s...