Nishida Sachiko

Nishida Sachiko (西田佐知子) of Osaka is the second in this series of Enka singers. Familiarly known as Sa'chan her career started in 1956 and by 1967 she had sold over 10 million copies of mainly singles, so one of the big players. She appeared 10 times on the NHK red/white singing competition, where enka singers are pit against eachother singing the same song, probably winning some of them. All of her releases are now in mono, as though many aritsts of the age re-recorded their hits in stereo after the time, she never really bothered and those that were set down an additional time have gone missing. At the time of one of her very big hits, the internationally known 'Coffee Rhumba', Sa'chan actually had no idea what certain lyrics in the song meant as she knew almost nothing about coffee, during recording asking people what a mocha was. Below are a few cuts from her archive that stretches up to about 1970. She again gave up most of her celebrity duties on her 1970 marriage to the famous actor Sekiguchi Hiroshi, and has since given birth to a son, also active as an actor and television celebrity, Sekiguchi Tomohiro, born two years after their marriage. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.