Day 20 of 30-Day Writing Challenge
I knew that he changed his name from Akihiro Maruyama to Akihiro Miwa, but that was about all I knew about him. He is older than my father, why would I be interested in him?
When I watched his documentary program on TV, and when I saw a photo of him about the time he had started singing in Tokyo right after World War II, I had a crash on him!
Not only his beauty, his life is full of color.
- He is a survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki.
- He is the first singer song writer in Japan.
- He never hid his LGBTQ identity.
- One of his most famous song “Yoitomake no Uta” had been banned from commercial broadcasting for a long time.
- He was a close friend of Yukio Mishima, a famous Japanese author who committed seppuku in 1970.
- His recital is always sold out.
An amazing human being. I’m a big fan of his books, too. Too bad his work (his music as well as books) is not well known by the world.