native_name_lang death_date years_active birth_place label name native_name background birth_date genre article_title birth_name
jpn 02 july 2000 1966 & ndash ; 1999 tokyo , japan victor entertainment mina aoe 青江 三奈 solo_singer 07 may 1941 enka , jazz mina aoe
 shizuko ihara 井原 静子
mina aoe

, professionally known as , was a japanese female `` enka '' singer who had a series of popular hits in the late 1960s and continued charting late into her career .
with her distinctive husky voice , she acquired the nickname `` queen of the blues '' .
she appeared 18 times on the annual `` kōhaku uta gassen '' show .
after her death , a memorial to aoe was established in the isezakichō shopping area in yokohama .
