ZARD is dead...

[Cloud]

ＺＡＲＤの坂井泉水さん、がんで入院中の非常階段から転落死

　ヒット曲「負けないで」などで知られる人気ポップスグループＺＡＲＤのボーカル坂井泉水（さかい・いずみ 、本名蒲池幸子＝かまち・さちこ）さん＝写真＝が２７日午後３時１０分、脳挫傷のため東京都新宿区の慶応大 病院で死去した。４０歳。神奈川県出身。葬儀・告別式は近親者で行う。喪主は未定。

　昨年６月から子宮頸（けい）がんのため闘病生活を送っていたが、肺への転移が見つかり、今年４月に再入院 した。警視庁四谷署などによると、２６日早朝、病院の非常階段の３メートルの高さから転落、後頭部を強打し ていた。

　同署は事故と自殺の両面で調べている。所属事務所は転落の原因について「日課の散歩から病室に戻る途中、 前日の雨により踊り場で足を滑らせた」としている。

　１９９１年、ＺＡＲＤのボーカルとしてデビュー。「負けないで」のヒットでスターになった。作詞も担当し 、作曲家織田哲郎さんとのコンビで「揺れる想い」「この愛に泳ぎ疲れても」「マイフレンド」などヒットを連 発した。

　さわやかな歌声と親しみやすく印象的なメロディー、人生に前向きな歌詞で人気を集めた。ＤＥＥＮやＷＡＮ ＤＳなど同じ所属レコード会社のグループとともに「ビーイング系」と呼ばれ、９０年代を代表するグループの １つとして、一世を風靡（ふうび）した。



source: http://www.sanspo.com/sokuho/0528sokuho019.html

what a shock!

[extepan]

OMG! i thought it was a rumour...but it seems it isnt. i picked up the kanji "brain injury"...was it a car crash or something? someone please translate!

[truehappiness]

Apparently she was being treated for some sort of cancer at a hospital. She'd walk around every so often, and on Saturday morning she fell out of a window somehow..

She was in a hospital being treated for cancer. Everyday, she'd take a walk through the hospital; she fell from the window of one of the higher floors early Saturday morning. No one is sure if it was an accident or if she jumped. Sakai was pronounced dead at 3:10pm, Sunday, 27 May.

[nmskalmn]

horrible

Apparently she slipped on a wet landing and fell, injuring her head.

Official site: http://www.wezard.net/

[tvfreak2600]

I was wondering if anyone heard the sad news that Zard's lead vocalist Kamachi Sachiko or mostly known Izumi Sakai has past away on 5/27 by falling down from stairs in Keio University hospital.

[-Link-]

wow.. i dunno who that is, but thats horrible RIP.

that set of news made me sad

[Raleigh]

Eh.. that's extremely tragic

[Miku]

can someone translate it?

[~X2RADialbomber~]

Omg! That's so sad

[emi♡]

OMG....this is horrible....I wonder if Hiru knows...he took a liking to her and sent me some of her music...woah...

[shirin]

It is died from fall by an emergency staircase hospitalized with Izumi Sakai, cancer of ZARD

　Hit vocal Izumi Sakai (boundary / Izumi, real name Yukiko Kamachi = Sachiko Kamachi) of popular pop music group ZARD which I did not "lose", and was known = photograph = died for cerebral contusion at Keio Univ. hospital of Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo at 3:10 in the afternoon of 27th. 40 years old. I am from Kanagawa. I hold a funeral service / a funeral service with close relatives. The chief mourner is undecided.

　I sent the days of fight against illness for cervix of uterus cancer from last June, but metastasis to lungs was found and was hospitalized again in this April. According to Metropolitan Police Department Yotsuya station, I dealt a fall, the back of the head a heavy blow from height of 3 meters of an emergency staircase of a hospital in the early morning of 26th.

　The station examines it on both sides of an accident and suicide. It is assumed that the position office "slid a foot by rain of the day before from a walk of daily work about a cause of a fall in a landing on one's way to a sickroom".

　In 1991, I make my debut as a vocal of ZARD. I became a star by the hit that I "lost". I was in charge of words, and "my friends" fired hits even if "thought to shake" "was tired from swimming in this love" by a combination with composer Tetsuro Oda.

　It was easy to get close to a refreshing singing voice and recruited popularity with a forward text in an impressive melody, the life. DEEN or WAN DS were called "being system" with a group of a stablemate recordmaker, and, as one of the groups which represented 90's, predominance assumed a generation it.

[Ayumi^_^]

Here is the translated news about it..
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/407652

[ImpactBreaker]

tragic and sad news.

[WillofDusk]

So sad~. I don't listen to her, but I know she's such a great artist, I was shocked hearing this.
RIP, ZARD....

[Alessia_Tateno]

I am a big fan of her and I was shocked when I read the news T.T She's a great artist T.T You all should try her music to feel how good this woman is...

She may rest in peace....:'(

[MsMiyabi]

R.I.P thats all I can say.

Cause I know I would be heart broken if anything happened to Namie, Kumi, or hyde.


My deepest reguards.

[Coelacanth]

Oh my god...

[Beauty4123]

never heard of her, but that's still so sad to hear. R.I.P.

[summersnow]

This is so sad!! R.I.P.

[Miku]

ZARD NOOOOOO T_T