Penny Tohyama

远山佩妮

The Monocle Weekly

社会与文化

2024-08-07

9 分钟
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Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco speaks with legendary Japanese city-pop singer Penny Tohyama. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to the Monaco Weekly.

  • For today's show, I speak with a very special guest, legendary Japanese city pop singer Penny Tohiyama.

  • I've been a fan for many years and we play some of her hits here at Monaco Radio.

  • Penny tells me about the renaissance of city pop and her music plans for 2024.

  • Have you heard City Pops, they call this?

  • Yeah, yeah, I think it's a city pop boom right now.

  • Like from the 80s.

  • The Japanese singers in the 80s music, it's kind of hit all over the world.

  • So probably that's why my music was recorded on 80s, so, you know, it's part of a city pop music.

  • So I guess that's why they start to get to know me again, you know.

  • How would you describe city pop for people that perhaps are not experts?

  • I can't explain because I've been singing pop songs all over, you know, all my life.

  • So they just put city in, you know, in the beginning.

  • So, you know, I mean, there's nothing changed, I think.

  • And you mentioned Columbia Records because when you go, I don't know, Tower Records in Tokyo, there's plenty, plenty of city pop compilations and your albums were there.

  • It's very interesting, right, because there's more attention to that sometimes than to the kind of the newer music as well.

  • I know.

  • Yeah.

  • I guess like I said before, it's because City Palm, it's a City pops boom.

  • So I guess my song is.