Masashi Sada

Sada Masashi is a singer lyricist composer novelist actor and a film producer born April 10 1952 in Nagasaki Nagasaki Prefecture Japan. Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Yoshida Masami 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 numbertwo on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1974. They broke up in 1976 after producing some hit singles including Enkiri Dera and Muen Zaka subsequently. Sada released the first solo album entitled Kikyorai shortly after the Grapes dissolution. Following the commercial success of the numberone hit single Amayadori Shelter from the rain 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. Source: Wikipedia