Chiyako Satō
Background information
Birth name	Chiyo Sato
Born	(1897-03-13)13 March 1897 Tendō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Died	13 December 1968(1968-12-13) (aged 71)
Genres	Ryūkōka
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1925–1930

Chiyako Satō (佐藤千夜子 Satō Chiyako) was a Japanese singer.

The Japanese singer Chiyako Satō (real name Chiyo Satō 佐藤千代 Satō Chiyo^[1]) was born in Tendō, Yamagata^[1] in 1897.^[1]

After graduating the Tokyo Music School (a precursor to the modern Tokyo University of the Arts^[1] her musical talents were recognized by the poet Ujō Noguchi (野口雨情)^[1] and the composer Shinpei Nakayama.^[1] In the early Shōwa period she achieved enormous success with "Habu no Minato" (波浮の港; 1928; lyrics by Noguchi, music by Nakayama)^[1] recorded at Japan Victor Company,^[1] and followed this up with "Tōkyō Kōshinkyoku" (東京行進曲; 1929; lyrics by Yaso Saijō [ja], music by Nakayama).^[1]

In 1930, she went to study in Italy,^[1] but upon returning to Japan in 1935 she was unable to reclaim her position in the Japanese show business world.^[1] She died in obscurity in 1968.^[1]