Mayumi Horikawa

Who is Mayumi Horikawa?

Mayumi Horikawa is a model and singer-songwriter born on 2 May 1958 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan of a Filipino father and a Japanese mother. Her younger sister is singer Reimy. Horikawa was selected as the fourth Clarion Girl in 1978, and made her debut as a singer that same year under producer Masataka Matsutōya. After refusing an offer to be in the 1984 film Oiran, she stopped making public appearances. Beginning in 1985, she began working under the name "Mayumi" when she began composing songs. Since then, she has written many hits in her "city pop" style.

Horikawa has written and composed songs for popular artists including Miki Imai, Jun'ichi Inagaki, Yukiko Okada, Kyōko Koizumi, Yuki Saito, Noriko Sakai, Miho Nakayama, Yū Hayami, Chiemi Hori, Saori Yagi, and Marina Watanabe.