Minako Honda Musical artist

Minako Honda (本田 美奈子, Honda Minako, born Minako Kudō (工藤 美奈子, Kudō Minako), July 31, 1967 – November 6, 2005) was a Japanese "idol" pop-star and musical singer. She became famous and popular as "Japan's Madonna" because of her sexy fashion and live performances in the mid to late 1980s.She was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia on January 5, 2005. At 4:38 A.M. on November 6, 2005, Honda died at the Juntendo University Hospital in Bunkyō, Tokyo, officially from acute myelogenous leukemia.

Personal facts

Birth dateJuly 31, 1967
Birth place
Katsushika Tokyo
Date of deathNovember 06, 2005
Place of death
Bunkyo Tokyo
Hometown
Katsushika Tokyo

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Musical artist

Career started1985
Career ended2005
associated musical artist
Sarah Brightman
Madonna (entertainer)
BackgroundSolo singer
genre
Pop music
Crossover (music)
Operatic pop
instrument
Singing
record label
EMI Music Japan
Nippon Columbia

Minako Honda on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://columbia.jp/~minako
  2. http://kyoto.japon.free.fr/Tokyo/T_Honda_Minako.htm
  3. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/archive/news/2005/11/20051111p2g00m0dm010000c.html
  4. http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-136/artist_name-minako_honda
  5. http://www.live-for-life.org
  6. http://www.minako-channel.com