Noriko Sakai

Noriko Sakai is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born in Japan, Fukuoka, debuting in 1986 as an idol singer identity, when her short hair style, sweet smile, youthful image became a talking point. Sakai released her debut single, Otoko no Ko ni Naritai on February 5, 1987, nine days short of her sixteenth birthday. Over 40,000 copies of the single were sold. In the early years of her career, she used the nickname NoriP , although around the mid1990s she started to distance herself from it. She ventured overseas in the 1990s to Taiwan to shoot VITALON P beverage commercials, as well as holding concerts which received praise.

She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She married Yichi Takas in 1998, and divorced on July 31, 2010. She and Yichi have one son, born in 1999. She is particularly popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her bestselling single to date is Aoi Usagi .

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