![]() ![]() In February 2012, Togawa began a "Blue Room Grand Cabaret" delivered through a web TV channel, Scatch.TV, and Chanson classes on the first and third Wednesdays of every month. In May 2012 she expressed a desire for the club to be relaunched, and there is now a "Monday Blue Room" hosted by the Tokyo Salavas. In December 2011 Masako Togawa had to close the Aoi Heya after 43 years because of pressing financial difficulties, despite the endeavours of a Blue Room Relief Fund. In 1975 she brought out her first record, "Lost Love", which was followed by "The Moral of the Story". In 1967 Ms Togawa turned her sister’s coffee shop into a nightclub, the Aoi Heya ("Blue Room"), which became a celebrity hangout, a lesbian night club, a chansonnier and, in recent years, a live music club. ![]() She taught numerous musicians how to sing and compose. Ms Togawa often made public appearances with a multicoloured "Afro" hairstyle. Not much about her children has been made public. Ms Togawa had several children, the last of whom was born when she was 48 years old. She worked as a typist for five years after leaving high school, then, aged 23, she made her singing debut, at the well-known nightclub Gin-Pari. Masako Togawa grew up in "restricted circumstances" following the death of her father. ![]() Masako Togawa ( 戸川昌子, Togawa Masako) (23 March 1931 – 26 April 2016) was a Japanese Chanson singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, lesbian icon, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist, and music educator. ![]()
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