Sizzle Ohtaka

, known by the stage names and , was a Japanese singer and television personality. After going to a jazz school, she had a prolific career in commercial songs, including her 1990 cover of Shoukichi Kina's song "", which won the Japan Advertising Music Association's 1991 Best Vocalist Award of Commercial Music. She also performed music for anime and live-action works, including I'm Gonna Be An Angel!, Spirited Away.hack//Legend of the Twilight, and Hotarubi no Mori e, and she was a regular cast member on the NHK Educational TV show .

Early life and education

Shizuko Ōtaka was born on 11 April 1952 in Nakano, Tokyo, and was educated at the Musashi University Faculty of Humanities. She began studying classical voice as a young child, and while studying at Musashi, she decided upon a singing career instead of becoming a manga artist, and she was part of a global traveling band, attended a jazz school, and worked the night shift at Kokusai Denshin Denwa. She also appeared as a vocalist for Nubian musician Hamza El Din's 1999 album A Wish. A compilation album, , was released in May 2022, four months before her death. She had entered into non-genre music due to a newfound interest in folk, jazz, and world music, She also performed music for several other works, such as (1997), Spirited Away (2001).hack//Legend of the Twilight (2003), and Hotarubi no Mori e (2011).