Izumi Yukimura has been played on NTS shows including The Athenian Marketplace , with Eyes Of Blue = アイズ・オブ・ブルー first played on 12 September 2021.

Born in 1937 in Tokyo, Japan, Izumi Yukimura (雪村いづみ, real name Tomoko Asahina) was one of Japan's most popular singers in the 1950s and the early 1960s. She was famous for singing popular American songs in Japanese, with a special interest for cha-cha and mambo. She appeared in "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1963. Nicknamed "The Barbara Streisand of Japan", the N.Y. Journal-American of 1960 wrote of her: "Izumi Yukimura is a singer of great talent in much the same…