Misora Hibari

About Misora Hibari

Misora Hibari is the singer most Japanese describe as the country's voice of the postwar century. She debuted at twelve in 1949 and dominated Japanese popular music for the next four decades, recording more than 1,200 songs across enka, kayōkyoku, and film. Her 1989 ballad Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni was voted the greatest Japanese song of all time in a 2007 nationwide poll, and her funeral in Tokyo drew more than 40,000 mourners.