Singer Hiromi Iwasaki appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on April 7th. She talked about the time when she was known as "Hiromi the pinch hitter" and her experiences feeling the power of the pyramids.
Her seniors included Hideki Saijo, Miyoko Asada, Miyoko Asada Kishimoto, and Naoko Kawai. She says that her seniors "for some reason would collapse about once a year," so "Hiromi Iwasaki was the pinch hitter." The reason given was that "I (Iwasaki) had never collapsed," suggesting she was quite robust.
When Asada was in the same agency, Hiromi was a newcomer, but she performed as the opening act (a singer who appears and sings before the main singer) for Asada several times. She also revealed an anecdote that Asada was such a great singer that she told her, "Oh no, Hiromi, I'm going to sing with all my heart."
I once sang with the Sphinx and pyramids of Cairo, Egypt, as a backdrop for a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I packed water in about half of my travel trunk and used it for brushing my teeth and gargling, but for some reason I ended up with an upset stomach.
She was unable to drink, eat, or move since morning, and while receiving an IV drip, she had her makeup done and was driven to Giza in Cairo. Those in the car with her exclaimed, "Look! The pyramids are beautiful!" and she recounted an anecdote about feeling the "power of the pyramids," saying, "When I saw the illuminated pyramids, my stomach ache instantly disappeared."
