Kaoru Akimoto

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Kaoru Akimoto (秋元薫, born June 5, 1964 in Tokyo) is a Japanese J-pop singer who performed during the 80s and 90s, during which the music genre Kayōkyoku was popular. She is most known for her 1986 album Cologne and the song "Dress Down", which became popular in the 2010s and 2020s due to the city pop music boom. Since its release, it has been remastered as Cologne + 1. Akimoto is also known for providing the vocals to soundtracks for various video games and providing backup vocals for other singers and music groups. Akimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan on June 5, 1964, into "a very ordinary family with no connection to music". As a child, Akimoto played the piano, which started her love of music and her future career as a singer. She participated in various singing auditions, winning several of them during her elementary school years. She went to First Girls High School in Sendai, during which she played in the school band and attended several more singing auditions. She also began writing her own lyrics, something she had done since childhood. Akimoto cites her musical style as being influenced by singers such as Chaka Khan and Saki Kubota, the latter of whom she often listened to throughout high school.