Masaharu Fukuyama

Getting into the J-pop scene in the first ‘90s, Masaharu Fukuyama, nicknamed Masha, maintained steady popularity for a long time to come, because of a combined mix of great appears (he charts within the “sexiest” lists regularly) and sweet pop/rock and roll melodies that he mostly creates himself. He’s also an achieved TV acting professional and something endorser who starred in advertisements for Panasonic, Apple, Dunlop, and Toshiba, and a radio sponsor, a producer, along with a prominent professional photographer. Fukuyama was created in 1969 in Nagasaki and debuted being a musician in 1990 using the one “Tsuioku no Ame no Naka” as well as the record Dengon, from BMG. He released three even more albums in 1991-1992, and produced his Television debut in 1991, but broke through just in 1992 on the effectiveness of the one “Good Evening” that received wide publicity because of a tie-in using the play Ai wa Dou Da, where he starred as himself. Fukuyama do his initial big tour exactly the same calendar year, cementing his reputation, and began his radio present, which went until 1998; by 1993 his 5th record, Contacting, topped the Oricon and shifted 450,000 systems, and Fukuyama himself received an invitation to the brand new Year Television show Kohaku Uta Gassen, that is the ultimate way of measuring success to get a Japanese pop musician. He previously his initial — however, not just — million vendor in 1994 using the one “It’s Only Like/Sorry Baby,” and topped the graphs using the record On and On, but slowed up his recording actions for all of those other ‘90s, releasing only 1 record, Sing a Tune (1998); he composed because of this with several Television dramas, and his singles continuing to market like hotcakes. He came back to music completely force in the very beginning of the 2000s (switching to General along the way): his one “Sakura Zaka” marketed over two-million copies, as well as the record managed to get to number 2 and shifted 870,000 even more. Fukuyama also proved helpful as a professional photographer for Television Asahi on the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and reinstated his radio present the same season. The one “Niji/Himawari/Sore ga Subete Sa” (2003), linked along with the episode Water Males, topped the graphs for five weeks, however the fresh recording didn’t appear until 2006, when “Go-nen Mono” obtained another number 1. In 2007, Fukuyama performed his first Television episode part in four years in Galileo, which brought him the very best Actor Honor at japan TV episode award wedding ceremony, and created the music group KOH+ with Kou Shibasaki, his partner within the series. KOH+ experienced two singles out in 2007-2008, however in 2009, Fukuyama came back to solo function, liberating Zankyo, which once again charted at number 1. He also opened up his own picture gallery in Nagasaki in 2008 and obtained the title part within the 2010 time of year of the traditional Taiga dilemma, the best staple of Japanese Television.