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Pyg
Pyg
Japanese band (1971-1972)
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The Tigers
The Tigers
Japanese Group Sound Band (1967-)
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Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Japanese actor and singer (1950-2019)
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The Peanuts
The Peanuts
Japanese vocal group (1959-1975)
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Tsugutoshi Gotō
Tsugutoshi Gotō
Japanese bassist, record producer and music arranger (1952-)
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Kazuhiko Katō
Kazuhiko Katō
Japanese Japanese record producer, songwriter and singer (1947–2009)
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Akira Terao
Akira Terao
Japanese actor and musician (1949-)
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Yoshiko Tanaka
Yoshiko Tanaka
Japanese singer and actress (1956-2011)
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Yuna Ito
Yuna Ito
American-born singer and actress active in Japan
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Kyōhei Tsutsumi
Kyōhei Tsutsumi
Japanese composer, arranger, music producer (1940-2020)
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Kenji Ito
Kenji Ito
musician
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Southern All Stars
Southern All Stars
Japanese rock band (1977-)
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Miwa Yoshida
Miwa Yoshida
Japanese singer-songwriter
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Every Little Thing
Every Little Thing
Japanese musical duo
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Dragon Ash
Dragon Ash
Japanese rap rock group
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Tatsurō Yamashita
Tatsurō Yamashita
Japanese singer-songwriter (1953-)
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Seiko Matsuda
Seiko Matsuda
Japanese pop singer, actress (1962-)
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Kumi Koda
Kumi Koda
Japanese singer
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Misia
Misia
Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, music producer (1978-)
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Koshi Inaba
Koshi Inaba
Japanese singer-songwriter and music producer (1964-)
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Kenshi Yonezu
Kenshi Yonezu
Japanese singer-songwriter (1991-)
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The Cardigans
The Cardigans
Swedish rock band
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Tora Tora
Tora Tora
American glam metal band
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Yumi Matsutoya
Yumi Matsutoya
Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer (1954-)
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Peanuts Hucko
Peanuts Hucko
American jazz musician
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Hamada Mari
Hamada Mari
Japanese singer-songwriter (1962-)
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Globe
Globe
Japanese pop band (1995-)
Kenji Sawada
Japanese singer, actor, lyricist, composer (1948-)

Kenji Sawada

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Japanese singer, actor, lyricist, composer (1948-)
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Member of, past and present

Kenji Sawada (沢田 研二, Sawada Kenji, born June 25, 1948; real surname written as 澤田) is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed "Julie" (ジュリー, Jurī) because of his self professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami (now part of Tottori), Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3.

As a singer (often he also worked as a songwriter) and actor, Sawada prospered greatly on Japanese popular culture in the last three decades of the Shōwa era. At the end of the 1960s, he had great success as the lead singer of the band The Tigers. After the breakup of The Tigers and another project Pyg, he began his own solo career.