Early Life
Miyuki Nakajima (中島 美雪, Nakajima Miyuki?) was born in February 1952 in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaidō. Her grandfather, Buichi, had been a Hokkaido politician, and her father, Shinichi, ran a clinic in obstetrics and gynecology. Her family moved to Iwanai when she was 5, remaining there for six years. She spent most of her teenage years in the city of Obihiro. She was one of the most eminent graduates from Obihiro Hakuyou High School, along with singer-songwriter Miwa Yoshida and television announcer Shinichiro Azumi. She graduated from Sapporo's Fuji Women's University in 1974.
She gave her first live performance during her third year in high school, playing the self-penned song "Tsugumi no Uta" on stage at a cultural festival.
In 1972, she played in a folk contest at the Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall in Tokyo, winning the songwriting prize for her "Atashi Tokidoki Omouno." The song, included in the contest album, became her first recorded material.
After graduating college, Nakajima continued striving to be a professional musician for nearly a year. Reportedly, she had already written more than a hundred songs before she debuted.
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