Minako Honda

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Minako Honda (本田美奈子. Honda Minako, real name: Minako Kudō (工藤美奈子), July 31, 1967 - November 6, 2005) was a Japanese pop-star and musical singer.

Born Minako Kudo in a suburb outside Tokyo and raised in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture. Kudo changed her name as she pursued a professional career in singing. In 1985 she appeared on the music scene with her debut album "One way Generation". She was known for appearing in revealing outfits and for exposing her belly (or hesodashi in Japanese).

The albums in her short career included:

After her J-pop career, she briefly recorded anime songs, including:

  • Magic Knights Rayearth
  • Hunter x Hunter
  • Ashita No Nadja

By the 1990s, Honda became a musical singer, with appearances in as Kim in the Japanese production of Miss Saigon. She also starred in Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables andThe King and I.

She has recorded with a number of non-Japanese artists, including:

She was diagnosed with myelocytic leukemia in January 2005 and died in Tokyo on November 6, 2005. She was single at the time of her death.

Brian May, who came in Japan in Queen's concert tour, was informed her poor physical condition. May seems to have known her death after he came back to the UK. "Minako was a little angel" he said after her death.

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