After winning the Grand Prize at the 1984 Miss Seventeen Contest, she debuted as an idol singer with her song "Shunshoku no Airmail [ja]" and had four more singles chart in the Oricon Singles Chart Top 30 and a Japan Record Awards New Artist Award, and she was a regular cast member at the variety show Shimura Ken no Daijobu dā [ja].
[1][2] Her real given name Miwako (美和子) is said to have the meaning of Utsukushiku itsu made mo heiwa na ko dearu yō ni (美しくいつまでも平和な子であるように, lit.
[2] She moved to the Jindaiji area of Chōfu when she was three, to Akishima, Tokyo when she was five, and due to her father's job, Isesaki during her third year of junior high school.
[5] In 1987, she joined the Fuji TV variety show Shimura Ken no Daijobu dā [ja] as a regular cast member.
[3] In September 2011, she made her first singing appearance in nineteen years, on the NHK BS Premium music show J-Pop Seishun no '80.