Asami Kobayashi

Biography

Toshiko Tanabe, better know by her stage name Asami Kobayashi, is a Japanese singer, model and actress that started her career as an idol while still at high school. She became very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly for her many hit songs, before retiring in 1991 to marry and focus on her family, eventually returning to show business in 2016.

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