柏原芳恵
(Yoshie Kashiwabara)
Yoshie Kashiwabara, born 柏原芳恵 on October 1, 1965, in Osaka, Japan, is a Japanese
pop singer and actress. She rose to fame as a teen idol in the early 1980s,
making her singing debut with the single "No.1" at the age of 14 after winning
the Star Tanjo contest in 1979. Kashiwabara's breakthrough came with her seventh
single "Hello Goodbye", which reached number 10 in autumn 1981 and brought her
instant fame. In 1982, all four of her singles that year made it into the top
10, but she was surprisingly not selected for the year-end NHK Red and White
Song festival. Despite this setback...
