# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroko-shimabukuro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:11:54.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroko-shimabukuro"
name: "Hiroko Shimabukuro"
slug: "hiroko-shimabukuro"
description: "Hiroko Shimabukuro , best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer. She debuted as a member of the popular girl group Speed in 1996. In 1998, hiro released her first solo song, \"Mitsumete Itai\", as a B-side to Speed's single \"All My True Love\". She made her official solo debut in 1999 with the single \"As Time Goes By\", which sold 800,000 copies in Japan. In 2022 she released her fourth studio album called \"0\"."
tagline: "Japanese singer and model"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ayTXNFNy8u2S1yIdT3ilWJJ9f7R.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: "1984-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.21
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.954256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 13100
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/HShimabukuro"
    handle:    "HShimabukuro"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hiroko.shimabukuro/"
    handle:    "hiroko.shimabukuro"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1100104/"
    handle:    "nm1100104"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/18DVWHb1MBFpGbz1keeuCR"
    handle:    "18DVWHb1MBFpGbz1keeuCR"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://hiroko.jp.net/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ3v4iuSe53dVSXJMpfxEFw"
    handle:    "@hiroko-shimabukuro0407"
    followers: 13100
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/132628"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "هيروكو شيمابوكورو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Shimabukuro"
    title: "Hiroko Shimabukuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Shimabukuro"
    title: "Hiroko Shimabukuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Shimabukuro"
    title: "Hiroko Shimabukuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E8%A2%8B%E5%AF%9B%E5%AD%90"
    title: "島袋寛子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%A7%88%EB%B6%80%EC%BF%A0%EB%A1%9C_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%BD%94"
    title: "시마부쿠로 히로코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Shimabukuro"
    title: "Hiroko Shimabukuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E8%A2%8B%E5%AF%AC%E5%AD%90"
    title: "島袋寬子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3875c156-4b18-4a55-bc2a-b9b9c22bcfd4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q691135"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1178833"
    title: "Hiroko Shimabukuro"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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