Southern All Stars

...a wholly owned subsidiary of Victor Co. of Japan, is widely known for the raft of famous bands and artists on its books, including the Southern All Stars and SMAP. It ranks fourth in the Japanese music software industry after Universal Music...

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has gained fame as a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and frontman for the Southern All-Stars. Kuwata is known for his willingness to experiment with differing genres of Western music as well as J-pop music in his native...

In this article: Keisuke Kuwata, Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Yuko Hara, Japan, Western music, and Arirang

...they played their last shows together in November 2005. Naka has been performing with an assortment of bands, including Ryouchi Endo and The Southern All Stars. Kurita has been playing bass with his band Chill. Nobuhiro Kurita, who joined...

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"Tsunami" is a song by the Southern All Stars, released as their forty-fourth single on January 26, 2000. The song was the first number one single for Southern All Stars since the 1996 single Ai no Kotodama on the oricon chart. The...

In this article: Tsunami, B'z, Oricon, Dango, Japan Gold Disc Award, Japan Record Awards, Koi no Dance Site, and Morning Musume

...critics and artists, including Hiroshi Miyagawa and Kosetsu Minami. The song is regarded as one of the most notable songs by the Southern All Stars. In 1988, a cover version by Ray Charles was featured in a Suntory Limited TV advertisement.

In this article: Keisuke Kuwata, Oricon, Mr. Children, Victor Entertainment, Japan, Tsunami, and Yuko Hara

...the musical particulars of each song. The more voluble Hikaru Ota is stimulated enough to hold forth on the ouevre of his favorite group, Southern All Stars, thus giving rise to a discussion of the "meaning of music." Speaking of music, the...

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...Cherry Bomber will perform rock music. Kuwata Kenkyukai Band will play the music of Keisuke Kuwata, lead vocalist of Japan's famous Southern All-Stars, on Aug. 18. Aerozamasu, an Aerosmith tribute band, will perform Aug. 20. Restaurants at...

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...which has been staged in Japan for the last 10 years, is co-sponsored by Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, bassist for the popular Japanese pop-rock group Southern All-Stars. Sekiguchi's Ukulele Foundation of Hawai'i is seeking to build an ukulele museum on...

In this article: Hawaii, Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, and Japan

...pop music and was confident enough in his Japanese to take the plunge. "At that time, I was really into Spitz and I was listening to Southern All Stars," he explains. "And then there was this Okinawan song, "Shima Uta" (originally by...

In this article: Japan, Chicago, Spitz, Guilty Pleasures, In-n-Out, Ellegarden, and Downtown

The members of the legendary rock band Southern All Stars will take a break from the group in 2009, according to the band's office. The members will pursue solo projects, the office said, adding that it has not been decided when they will...

In this article: Keisuke Kuwata, Ray Charles, and Japan