Biography
Mari Hamada started her professional singing career in 1983 as a heavy metal idol, produced by the late Munetaka Higuchi (drummer of Japanese metal band Loudness). Her records were successful in the Japanese rock market. Later, she changed her musical style to AOR, with mainstream commercial and even international success.
In 1989, she hit No. 1 on the Oricon music charts for the first time and performed a successful two-day concert at the Budokan in the same year. Two of her songs where used by the NHK to promote the 1988 Seoul Olympics games TV broadcasts in Japan. She was the best-selling Japanese export artist from the late-1980s to mid-1990s, since her records were popular abroad but not available outside Japan.
In 1993, Hamada released her only international album - Introducing... Mari Hamada, a compilation of songs in English. The album featured a song composed by Matthew and Gunnar Nelson (of the band Nelson) and was supported by a European tour with Kim Wilde. In the same year, Hamada recorded the ballad "Fixing a Broken Heart" with the Australian band Indecent Obsession on their album Relativity.
In 2010, she performed a successful concert at the Tokyo Nakano-sun plaza and hit Mari Hamada live in Tokyo "Aestetica" No. 1 on the Oricon DVD music charts for the first time.
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