[3] In a career spanning more than 40 years, she achieved commercial success and popularity in the city pop music scene during the 1980s.

Her debut release was 1978's "Oribia o Kikinagara" ("While Listening to Olivia"),[1][4][5] written by Amii Ozaki.

!, which spawned the hits "Cat's Eye" and "Kanashimi ga Tomaranai" ("I Can't Stop the Loneliness").

[5][6][7][8] "Cat's Eye" was used as the first opening theme of the eponymous 1983 anime series of the same name[4][9][6] and debuted as No.

[3] In 2002, she began collaborating with jazz fusion guitarist Lee Ritenour, who produced her 2002 LP Smooth Jam – Quiet Storm.