Often referred to as the Queen of City Pop, she debuted with her album Pocket Park in 1979 ... and worked as a vocal coach for a while. This background helps Casey explain complex singing ideas ...

Japan needed a new soundtrack for this new lifestyle, and city pop was born," Eli Cohen, who helped assemble the "Tokyo Nights" album ... A strange choice of background music, as he explained ...

City pop can sound like anything from soft, album-oriented rock to sophisticated boogie disco, yet the term is often used in a narrow sense in Japan. It’s an established genre, and city pop records ...

‘Pacific Breeze’ album art by Hiroshi Nagai “Tasteful” is a word that could be used to describe the core City Pop aesthetic, which will sound familiar to anyone who’s ever dabbled in the ...

Billboard Japan asked Takeuchi to share her thoughts on her recent project, and also to comment on the "city pop" revival in recent ... released her first studio album in a decade called Precious ...