Masashi Sada
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is a Japanese singer, lyricist
, composer
, novelist, actor
, and a film producer.
Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Masami Yoshida in 1972, and made debut as a recording artist a year after. The pair rose to fame owing to a hit of a song "Shourou Nagashi" composed by Sada, which peaked at the number-two on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1974. They broke up in 1976, after producing some hit singles including "En-kiri Dera" and "Muen Zaka" subsequently.
Sada released the first solo album entitled Kikyorai shortly after the Grape's dissolution. Following the commercial success of the number-one hit single "Amayadori" in 1977, he enjoyed the recording career as one of the most popular Japanese male artists during the late 1970s and the first half of 1980s.
Throughout his career as a musician, Sada released over 35 solo albums and 70 singles, and multiple live albums or compilations. Since the release of Shourou Nagashi published in 2001, Sada has also worked as a novelist.
Lyricist
A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, novelist, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, and a film producer.
Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Masami Yoshida in 1972, and made debut as a recording artist a year after. The pair rose to fame owing to a hit of a song "Shourou Nagashi" composed by Sada, which peaked at the number-two on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1974. They broke up in 1976, after producing some hit singles including "En-kiri Dera" and "Muen Zaka" subsequently.
Sada released the first solo album entitled Kikyorai shortly after the Grape's dissolution. Following the commercial success of the number-one hit single "Amayadori" in 1977, he enjoyed the recording career as one of the most popular Japanese male artists during the late 1970s and the first half of 1980s.
Throughout his career as a musician, Sada released over 35 solo albums and 70 singles, and multiple live albums or compilations. Since the release of Shourou Nagashi published in 2001, Sada has also worked as a novelist.
Albums
- Wasuremono (25 August 1974)
- Seseragi (25 May 1975)
- Communication (25 November 1975)
- Kikyorai (25 November 1976)
- Kazamidori (25 July 1977)
- Shikashu (25 March 1978)
- Yume Kuyo (10 April 1979)
- Inshoha (10 October 1980)
- Utsurohi (25 June 1981)
- Yume no Wadachi / Rut of dream (11 December 1982)
- Kaze no Omokage (30 November 1983)
- Glass Age (12 December 1984)
- ADVANTAGE (12 June 1985)
- Jibun Shokogun / Oneself syndrome (21 December 1985)
- Yume Kaikisen (25 July 1987)
- Kazemachi Dori no Hitobito (25 July 1988)
- Yume no Fuku koro (25 January 1989)
- Yume bakari Miteita (25 February 1990)
- Yume Kaikisen II (25 August 1990)
- Kazoku no Shozo (25 July 1991)
- Ano Koro ni Tsuite -Season of raisin- (10 November 1991)
- Honobono / Heartwarming (10 November 1992)
- Aimiteno ( (25 October 1993)
- Omoide Dorobo (25 October 1994)
- Sayonara Nippon / Good-bye Nippon (25 October 1995)
- Furukusai Koi no Uta bakari (25 October 1996)
- Yumeuta (21 November 1997)
- Kokoro no Jidai ( (23 September 1998)
- Toki no Sumika (23 June 1999)
- Nihon Kaku Setsu (21 September 2000)
- Ki wo Ueta Otoko -Midori Hyakunen Monogatari- / The Man Who Planted Trees (25 April 2001)
- Arusutoromeria (27 February 2002)
- Yume no Tsuzuki (26 September 2002)
- Yume Kuyo (19 February 2003) - A Special two disk edition
- Slowlife Story (22 October 2003)
- Koibumi ( / love letter (2004)
- Tokoshi e (2005)
- Utsukushiki Nihon no Omokage (2006)
- Mist (2007)
- Utsukushii asa (2009)