Tokyo Music Festival
Takeuchi joined the music club of the university and there she was invited to participate in 's recordings and in March 1978 so-called the omnibus album recordings. In August that year she signed up with the RCA recording label, and in November her debut single , and the debut album were released. The 1979 singles , were hits, and she won the 1979 Japan Record Awards, Tokyo Music Festival, Japan Music Awards, Shinjuku Music Festival and Ginza Music Festival best new artist awards as a singer. The 1980 single was also hit. Takeuchi has had one song (1981) appear on the NHK program .