Happy Women's Map 青森県 日本初のシャンソン歌手 淡谷 のり子 女史
「力いっぱいの、その女の戦いの苦しさに、私はときどきわあーっと喚声をあげたくなることがある」
"In moments like these, I sometimes feel the urge to let out a heartfelt cheer for the strength and struggles of that woman's fight."
淡谷 のり子 女史
Ms. Noriko Awaya
1907 - 1999
青森県青森市 生誕
Born in Aomori-city, Aomori-ken
淡谷のり子女史は日本のシャンソン歌手の先駆けです。特に戦時中の弾圧下でも美しい化粧また衣装を身にまとって死地に赴く兵士また家族の心を慰めるように歌い続けました。
Ms. Noriko Awaya was a pioneering Japanese chanson singer. Especially during the wartime oppression, she continued to sing, adorned in beautiful makeup and costumes, offering solace to soldiers in the battlefield and their families.
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「ごんぼ掘り」
のり子は青森屈指の豪商の呉服屋「大五阿波屋」に2人姉妹の長女として生まれます。30人を超す奉公人を抱え店先はいつもにぎわい、のり子は当時は珍しい西洋人形や洋菓子を与えられ何不自由なく育ちます。のり子3歳の時に青森大火で店は焼失、父・彦蔵は再建を目指して商売に奔走するもまもなく店は人手に渡ってしまいます。次々と「差し押さえ」の紙が家財がに貼られていく中でも、のり子は気に入った布地・帯を「ゴンボ掘り」する大のおしゃれ好き。リボンをひらひらさせて女学校に通い出し始めるころ、親戚からも見放され酒と女に溺れていた父は家族を置いたまま別の女性と姿を消してしまいます｡「女だって必死になったら飢え死にすることはないでしょう」黙って夫に従って耐えてきた母・みねは、故郷を離れ２人の娘を連れて上京します。のり子と妹・とし子は母の勧めで、三浦環のような歌手また音楽教師になるべく東京音楽学校（現東京芸術大学音楽課）また青山学院所学部のピアノ科に通います。のり子はクラシック音楽の基礎を徹底的に学びオペラ歌手を目指します。実家が徐々に貧しくなるとともに、妹・とし子が目を患い高額な治療費の工面に奔走します。のり子は学校を1年間ほど休学、絵画のヌードモデルを務めるなどして生活費を稼ぎます。なかでも画家・田口省吾からは学費・治療費など献身的なサポートに加え求婚を受けますが、妹・とし子の目が快復すると、のり子は復学して再びオペラ歌手を目指します。声楽の指導法を確立したリリー・レーマンの弟子でもあるソプラノ歌手・久保田稲子の指導を受け、のり子は29歳の時に東洋音楽学校を首席で卒業、声楽家としての一歩を踏み出します。「どんなに苦しくても生活に負けないことよ。本当の芸術を極めていかなかったら音楽をやった甲斐ないじゃないの。」
「からきじ」
世界恐慌が始まる頃、のり子は卒業後もそのまま母校に残って研究科に籍を置きます。母校主宰の演奏会ではクラシック歌手として活動するも、家計を支えるために「久慈浜音頭」「マドロス小唄」など流行歌も歌い、東京・浅草の「電気館」のステージに立って映画館の専属として歌います。「低俗な歌を歌った」ことが堕落と見なされ、母校の卒業名簿から抹消されます（後年復籍）。レコード会社でシャンソンのカバー曲「ドンニャ・マリキータ」「暗い日曜日」を吹き込むと大ヒット。日本にシャンソンブームを巻き起こします。続いて「別れのタンゴ」「傷心の歌」のヒットでタンゴの女王、「別れのブルース」「雨のブルース」のヒットでブルースの女王と呼ばれ、売れっ子歌手となります。レコード会社のセクハラ男達から逃げ回る中、ジャズピアニストの和田肇と結婚するもまもなく離婚。酒好きが高じて酒場を経営したり、漫才師を引き連れて上海で豪遊したり、恋愛をエンジョイしながら「淡谷のり子」楽団を結成。第二次世界大戦中では、どんなに婦人会はじめ軍部に強制されてもモンペをはかず、細い眉を描き、濃い口紅をつけ、パーマをかけ、美しい衣装を身にまとってステージに上がります。戦後は、米軍のキャンプまた将校クラブで歌い始め、妹・としこのピアノとともに各地を巡業します。レコード会社と宣伝屋のセクハラ男達による「新人あさり」はじめ新人歌手による「女の切り札」が入り乱れる中、のり子は自らの楽団と舞台はじめラジオ・TVで歌い続けます。のり子は「じょっぱり」ならぬ「からきじ」気質を通して、歌手として音楽批評家として大活躍しながら92歳で逝去します。
"Gonbohori -Spoiled child"
Noriko was born as the eldest of two sisters to Daigo Awa-ya, a kimono shop run by one of Aomori's most wealthy merchants. She had over 30 servants and the storefront was always busy, and Noriko was given Western dolls and Western sweets, which were rare at the time, and grew up without any problems. When Noriko was 3 years old, her store was destroyed in the Great Aomori Fire, and although her father, Hikozo, worked hard to rebuild the business, her store was soon left in the hands of other people. Noriko is a big fan of fashion, even as "foreclosure" papers are pasted on her belongings one after another, and she "digs" for fabrics and obi that she likes. By the time she started attending girls' school with her ribbons fluttering, her father, who was abandoned by his relatives and addicted to alcohol and women, disappeared with another woman, leaving his family behind. My mother, Mine, who had endured the situation silently by following her husband, left her hometown and moved to Tokyo with her two daughters. At the urging of their mother, Noriko and her younger sister, Toshiko, attended the Tokyo School of Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts Music Division) and Aoyama Gakuin's undergraduate piano department in hopes of becoming singers and music teachers like Tamaki Miura. Noriko thoroughly learns the basics of classical music and aims to become an opera singer. As her family gradually becomes poorer, her younger sister Toshiko suffers from an eye problem and has to work hard to pay for the expensive treatment. Noriko takes a leave of absence from her school for about a year, and she earns her living by serving as a nude model for paintings. In particular, she receives a marriage proposal from the painter Shogo Taguchi, who provides her with dedicated support such as her tuition and medical expenses, but when her younger sister Toshiko's eyesight improves, Noriko returns to school and becomes an opera singer again. We aim to She received guidance from soprano Ineko Kubota, a disciple of Lily Lehmann, who established the vocal teaching method, and Noriko graduated at the top of her class at the Toyo Music School at the age of 29, taking her first steps as a vocalist. I'll take a step. ``No matter how hard life is, don't give in to life. If you don't master your true art, it's not worth the effort to make music.''
"Karakiji -Stubbornness"
When the Great Depression began, Noriko remained at her alma mater and enrolled in her graduate school. Although she was active as a classical singer at concerts hosted by her alma mater, she also sang popular songs such as ``Kujihama Ondo'' and ``Madros Kouta'' to support her family, and performed on stage at Denkikan in Asakusa, Tokyo, and performed in movie theaters. I sing exclusively for. The fact that ``she sang a vulgar song'' was considered to be her downfall, and she was removed from the graduation list of her alma mater (she was later reinstated). Her record company recorded the chanson cover songs ``Donña Mariquita'' and ``Gloomy Sunday'' and they became big hits. She sparked a chanson boom in Japan. She was subsequently called the Queen of Tango with her hits ``Farewell Tango'' and ``Song of Heartbreak'', and the Queen of Blues with her hits ``Farewell Blues'' and ``Rain Blues'', and she became a popular singer. While she was on the run from sexually harassing men at a record company, she married Hajime Wada, a jazz pianist, but soon divorced. Her love of alcohol grew, so she ran a bar, went on a wild trip to Shanghai with a comedian, and formed the ``Noriko Awaya'' band while enjoying her love life. During World War II, no matter how much she was forced to do by women's groups or the military, she never wore a mask, drew thin eyebrows, put on dark lipstick, got a perm, and appeared on stage wearing beautiful costumes. go up. After the war, she began singing at U.S. military camps and officers' clubs, and toured around the country with her younger sister, Toshiko, on the piano. Noriko continues to sing with her own orchestra, on stage, on radio, and on TV, amidst the ``new asari'' and ``women's trump cards'' by new singers, including the sexual harassment of male record companies and publicity agents. . She passed away at the age of 92, with Noriko having a ``Karakiji'' personality that was not ``Joppari'', and was very active as a singer and music critic.
-青森市 Aomori-city
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