Originally, she was active as a singer of a local jazz cafe under her real name, Kuniko Ogata. After that, she was scouted at the age of 16, 1966, appeared under the name Kuniko Fuji in "Saturday Tiger" on TBS, the 1967 "live in love the days of limited" than Toshiba record (the name at this time Made her record debut with her real name, Kuniko Ogata. "I'm a useless woman", which was released as a duet with Hiroshi Wada and Mahina Stars in 1968, was a hit with 500,000 copies. However, she was not blessed with a hit as a solo artist.

In 1973 she moved to CBS Sony. Under the production of Masatoshi Sakai, the stage name was changed to "Akari Uchida". In costumes Kansai Yamamoto, the jacket picture Kazuo Kamimura welcomed, multiplied by the large promotion "Ukiyo-e of the city" 70 million copies big hit of. After that, when "Ukiyo-e no Machi" was made into a movie, she also starred. "Dedication" released in 1974 was released as a single with the same title in 1967 under the name of Kuniko Ogata, but this is a rare case of a completely different song by the same singer.

In 1989, "Amorous Ichidai Onna", who fully expressed the strange costume and bewitchingness, became a hot topic and recorded a hit after a long time. In the same year, this song won the "Japan Record Award" for Best Songwriting.

Since then, her activities as an actress have increased, and he has mainly focused on movies and TV dramas, but when she resumed her singer activities in earnest in 1999. Edit Biography