Longtime jazz vocalist Maki Asakawa dies at 67

Longtime jazz vocalist Maki Asakawa dies at 67

TOKYO, Japan - Maki Asakawa (file photo taken in October, 1971), an avant-garde jazz and blues vocalist who caught the fancy of restless postwar baby boomers through such songs as ''Kamome'' has died of acute heart failure in Nagoya, the Aichi prefectural police said on Jan. 18. She was 67. Asakawa was found collapsed in her hotel room in Nagoya on Jan. 17 and later confirmed dead. (Kyodo)

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