Japan’s pop star Miwa Yoshida got married

OHMYGOSSIP — One of Japan’s best-known pop stars said on Wednesday that she has married a fellow musician nearly 20 years her junior, setting off a frenzy in the country’s tabloid press.

Miwa Yoshida (46) the lead singer of Dreams Come True which has sold about 50 million albums worldwide, announced on her New York-based blog that she tied the knot with Juon Kamata, the 27-year-old lead singer for rock band Fuzzy Control,

“I have something to tell you today. You know what, I got married to Juon on March 8,” she wrote.

Yoshida, still hugely popular among mostly female fans in Japan, started the duo Dreams Come True more than two decades ago. The band won followers across East Asia with their romantic ballads.

She joins a long list of woman celebrities who have married considerably younger men.

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Miwa Yoshida (吉田 美和 Yoshida Miwa, born May 6, 1965 in Ikeda, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese musician, and the lead singer for the band Dreams Come True.
 
Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project called “Funk the Peanuts”, and has released two solo albums, Beauty and Harmony and Beauty and Harmony 2. Both albums took their name from the English translation of the name Miwa.

Miwa Yoshida formed Dreams Come True in 1988 with Masato Nakamura whom she met in Tokyo, and Takahiro Nishikawa who was her old friend from high school days in Hokkaido.
 
In 1995, she started musical activities as Funk the Peanuts, and debuted as a solo singer with the album Beauty and Harmony. She started the record company “DCT Records” with Nakamura in July, 2002. They serve as the executive producer now.
 
Yoshida had a relationship with director Ken Sueda who died of cancer in 2007.

 

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