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Singer Yuki Katsuragi Passes Away at 73
posted on by Alex Mateo
Singer Yuki Katsuragi passed away due to peritoneal cancer (cancer of the tissue lining the inside of the abdomen) at a Tokyo hospital on Monday. She was 73 years old.
Katsuragi had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer since April 2021 and had been receiving treatment since that May. She returned to perform in concert on May 17.
Katsuragi was born in 1949. She attended music school in Osaka. In 1973, she won the Yamaha Popular Song Contest under the name Machi Asagiri. She became well-known for her song "Bohemian" in 1983. She suffered a crushed thoracic spine fracture during an television show filming accident in 2003, but she recovered.
She performed theme songs for Goku: Midnight Eye and Gongitsune, as well as an insert song for Space Dandy.
Source: Sponichi Annex via Hachima Kikо̄
