# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eiko-shimamiya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:14:18.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eiko-shimamiya"
name: "Eiko Shimamiya"
slug: "eiko-shimamiya"
description: "Eiko Shimamiya , also called Eiko or Peko, is a female J-pop singer-songwriter, and producer who is currently affiliated with Heart Company. She is best known for singing the opening themes of the anime series Higurashi When They Cry. Eiko also handles a school called Shimamiya Size (S-size) in Sapporo. Some of her former students are I've Sound singers Mami Kawada, Kotoko and Kaori Utatsuki. She announced on May 10, 2010, via Twitter that she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Her \"Perfect World Live Tour\", which was scheduled to begin in June, was subsequently canceled. She made an announcement of her full recovery from cancer on January 28, 2011."
tagline: "Japanese singer-songwriter and producer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lGqCXY50FY92uNB4EdrkNfjD6hE.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1965-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.05
  momentum:             0.5630026809651474
  historical:           12.52693066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  218
  category: null
totalFollowers: 3580
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/eikoshimamiya"
    handle:    "eikoshimamiya"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/eikoshimamiya"
    handle:    "eikoshimamiya"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11463853/"
    handle:    "nm11463853"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6kfYlGEez4g2EsdjKu9YpJ"
    handle:    "6kfYlGEez4g2EsdjKu9YpJ"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.eiko-shimamiya.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWHhS1bV2elLyNL60jej0cw"
    handle:    "@channel-jb3cj"
    followers: 3580
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1267177"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "ايكو شيماميا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Shimamiya"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Shimamiya"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Shimamiya"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simamija_Eiko"
    title: "Simamija Eiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Shimamiya"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Shimamiya"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E3%81%BF%E3%82%84%E3%81%88%E3%81%84%E5%AD%90"
    title: "島みやえい子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%A7%88%EB%AF%B8%EC%95%BC_%EC%97%90%EC%9D%B4%EC%BD%94"
    title: "시마미야 에이코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Shimamiya"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimamiya_Eiko"
    title: "Shimamiya Eiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E5%AE%AE%E6%A6%AE%E5%AD%90"
    title: "島宮榮子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/246b42a0-6cb3-4f6e-af6d-31b72b6fd42c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1192899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2853932"
    title: "Eiko Shimamiya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump