Kawachiya Kikusuimaru

Kawachiya Kikusuimaru

Kawachiya Kikusuimaru (河内家 菊水丸) is a Japanese musician and singer. He is the most famous singer of Kawachi ondo folk music.

Born in Yao, Osaka on February 14 1963, he started studying Kawachi ondo with his father, Kawachiya Kikusui, at the age of nine. He came to national attention in 1991 with his reggae-style song "Kakin Ondo" (カーキン音頭, "kaakin ondo") which was featured in a television commercial for recruitment magazine "From A" (フロム・エー).

Kawachiya is known for performing in a wide variety of countries, from Hawaii in 1983 to Baghdad in 1990 (at the Iraq for peace festival) and Pyongyang in 1995.

He is also a writer and newspaper contributor. One of his published works is "Kikusuimaru's Scrapbook" (菊水丸のスクラップ帖), a collection of his articles for the Osaka Shimbun newspaper.

External links

* [http://home.jesa.or.jp/jes96/person/person_0020_e.html mini-biography] , listing international performances


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