# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiromi-yanagihara
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:44:05.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiromi-yanagihara"
name: "Hiromi Yanagihara"
slug: "hiromi-yanagihara"
description: "Hiromi Yanagihara  was a Japanese singer and actress. She was a founding member of Hello! Project J-pop group Country Musume. She joined Country Musume in 1999 along with Rinne Toda and Azusa Kobayashi. On July 16, 1999, Yanagihara was killed in a car accident, one week before the group's first release, Futari no Hokkaidou on July 23, 1999."
tagline: "Japanese singer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Hiromi_Yanagihara.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1979-10-19"
deathDate: "1999-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.563933333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.helloproject.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5c519df3-f876-48b2-aeb8-ad32c18742d1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "هيرومى ياناجيهارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Yanagihara"
    title: "Hiromi Yanagihara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Yanagihara"
    title: "Hiromi Yanagihara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Yanagihara"
    title: "Hiromi Yanagihara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E5%8E%9F%E5%B0%8B%E7%BE%8E"
    title: "柳原尋美"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagihara_Hiromi"
    title: "Yanagihara Hiromi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Yanagihara"
    title: "Hiromi Yanagihara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromi_Yanagihara"
    title: "Hiromi Yanagihara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E5%8E%9F%E5%B0%8B%E7%BE%8E"
    title: "柳原尋美"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3109976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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