# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sayuri-kume
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:49.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sayuri-kume"
name: "Sayuri Kume"
slug: "sayuri-kume"
description: "Sayuri Kume, also known as Saki Kubota, is a Japanese singer-songwriter whose song Ihojin (1979) sold more than 1.4 million copies and reached number 1 in the Japanese singles chart. The song was used in the \"Silk Road\" television commercial for Sanyo."
tagline: "Japanese singer-songwriter"
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: "1958-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.17
  momentum:             25
  historical:           9.838229333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.missionphotos.info/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Kubota"
    title: "Sayuri Kume"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Kubota"
    title: "Saki Kubota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Kubota"
    title: "Saki Kubota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Kubota"
    title: "Saki Kubota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Kubota"
    title: "Saki Kubota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85%E7%B1%B3%E5%B0%8F%E7%99%BE%E5%90%88"
    title: "久米小百合"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BF%A0%EB%A9%94_%EC%82%AC%EC%9C%A0%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "쿠메 사유리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Kubota"
    title: "Saki Kubota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b9455791-8459-41a5-bc79-788bfb1e5ef2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4169662"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11369592"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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