Kenichi Kurosawa 黒沢 健一 | |
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Born | Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan | 11 August 1968
Died | 5 December 2016 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 48)
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Years active | 1990–2016 |
Website | www |
Kenichi Kurosawa (黒沢 健一, Kurosawa Ken'ichi, 11 August 1968 – 5 December 2016) was a Japanese musician and record producer from Hitachi, Ibaraki. His younger brother is Hideki Kurosawa, who is also a musician.
In a contest participating in an amateur band during his school days, a special prize was given from Tetsuya Komuro (later became LR's "(I Wanna) Be With You"). That song began as an opportunity, and later debuted as a composer at the age of nineteen. He provided songs to Yoko Minamino and Nami Shimada.[1]
About 1990, his demonstration tapes (which later became LR's "(I Wanna) Be With You") which he personally made were stopped by ears of record producer Daiji Okai (part of Yonin Bayashi, whom were disbanded at the time) and was acquainted, later introduced to Kenichi Makimura who was a producer of Polystar Records at that time, and had an opportunity debuted to debut as LR.[citation needed]
In 1990, with his brother Hideki and friend Hiruharu Kinoshita, he formed LR and started group activities.[1] In 1991, they debuted with the mini album L, and later released thirteen singles and seven albums.
In 1998, after the end of "Concert Tour '97 'Doubt'," he announced suspension of his activities of LR, and entered solo activities.[1]
In addition to releasing works under his solo name, he also energetically conduct group activities such as curve509, Science Ministry, Ken'z (Ken'z with Friends), Motorworks, and Hanky Panky. While his other activities as music producer and composer were also continuing.[citation needed]
He announced a one-man live holding on his official website on 8 November 2007. In December, he would release a new song for the first time in five years only with iTunes, and would hold a single live at the end of the year, which resumed singer activities.[citation needed]
His tour "Tour without electricity 2008" held at six locations nationwide in May 2008.[citation needed]
On 4 March 2009, he released the album Focus for as a solo for seven years. After that, his band tours were held in six cities nationwide.[citation needed]
On 3 October 2016, on his official website, he publicised that he was under treatment for brain tumour. It was discovered as a result of an inspection after a dizziness occurred during his rehearsal of the live in October 2015, and after that he was repeatedly in and out of hospital.[2]
He later died by brain tumour on 5 December of the same year. He was 48 years old.[3][1]
On 23 January 2017, at Tokyo Culture Culture the "Flowering Association to remember Kenichi Kurosawa" was held.[4][5]
Three of his albums first, B and New Voices were reissued on a bonus track on 15 March of the same year. In the bonus track of first, a studio version of "What is this song?" which was unpublished was recorded.[citation needed]
Title | Release date | Recorded music | Highest rank | Remarks | |
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1 | Wondering | 3 Jun 1998 |
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41st place | NHK Pop Jam ending theme |
2 | Rock'n Roll | 19 Aug 1998 |
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44th place | Latter three are covers of Brinsley Schwarz, The Zombies, and The Lovin' Spoonful respectively |
3 | This Song | 2 Jun 1999 |
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77th place | YTV drama Romance insert song |
4 | Pale Ale | 21 Nov 2001 |
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89th place |
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Title | Release date | Recorded music | |
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1 | Feel it | 5 Dec 2007 |
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2 | Scene39 | 19 Dec 2007 |
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3 | Looking For The Place | 28 Mar 2015 |
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1 | first | 18 Sep 1998 |
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34th place | |
2 | B | 14 Mar 2011 |
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68th place | |
3 | New Voices | 17 Apr 2002 |
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65th place | |
Live without electricity | 4 Jun 2008 |
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221st place | ||
4 | Focus | 4 Mar 2009 |
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111st place | |
V.S.G.P | 15 Dec 2010 | Disc1 -Studio-
Disc2 -Live-
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V.S.G.P Naked | 18 Dec 2010 |
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Alone Together Volume One | 29 Dec 2012 |
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5 | Banding Together in Dreams[10] | 25 Jun 2013 |
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79th place | Album also released as a limited edition |
Lifetime Best "Best Value" | 8 Jun 2015 |
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148th place | Self cover album by producer Eric Ross | |
Hear Me Now[11] | 5 Dec 2017 |
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Title | Release date | Recorded music | |
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1 | Live2011 New Direction | 29 Aug 2012 |
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