Before launching his solo career, Japanese singer-songwriter and composer Kazumasa Oda was a member of the ’70s and ’80s soft-rock band Off Course.
∙ Oda cowrote and was featured on “Ima Dakara,” a 1985 No. 1 pop-rock hit for Japanese superstar Yumi Matsutoya.
∙ His 1986 solo debut album, K. Oda, featured the award-winning American session musicians Dann Huff (guitar), David Hungate (bass), and Jeff Porcaro (drums).
∙ “Love Story Wa Totsuzen Ni,” the chart-topping theme song for the TV drama Tokyo Love Story, was Japan’s best-selling single of 1991.
∙ In 1997, Oda’s ’80s-pop throwback “Tsutaetai Koto Ga Arunda” won Best Theme Song at the Television Drama Academy Awards.
∙ He became the oldest Japanese solo artist to have a No. 1 album when 2005’s Soukana topped the charts.
∙ Dōmo, from 2011, won Best Album at the Japan Record Awards, the country’s equivalent of the Grammys.
Hometown
Yokohama, Japan
Genre
J-Pop
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