Motoharu Sano
Motoharu Sano (佐野 元春; born March 13, 1956, in Taitō, Tokyo), is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. A graduate of Rikkyo University, Sano is a frontman with a history of performing in several bands which feature music both in Japanese and occasionally, English, playing songs that often have a rock and roll sound to them. In 2007, Rolling Stone Japan ranked his album Someday number 11 on a list of the greatest Japanese rock albums of all time. Additionally, he has spent a year in New York City, even doing a radio show there. Sano took part in a special two-day concert commemorating Takashi Matsumoto's 45th anniversary as a lyricist held at the Tokyo International Forum on August 21–22, 2015. He performed lead vocals on "Haikara Hakuchi" with the surviving members of Happy End, Matsumoto, Haruomi Hosono and Shigeru Suzuki, in place of the deceased Eiichi Ohtaki.
Genre: japanese-singer-songwriter, classic-j-rock
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Top Tracks
- SOMEDAY
- ガラスのジェネレーション
- Young Bloods
- レインガール
- Better days（2015 New mix）
- A面で恋をして (Single Version)
- A面で恋をして (CM Version)
- こんな素敵な日には
- 彼女はデリケート (Single Version)
- 週末の恋人たち
- マンハッタンブリッヂにたたずんで
- Bye Bye C-Boy
- 彼女はデリケート
- A面で恋をして
- So Young
- DOWN TOWN BOY
- ガラスのジェネレーション
- CHRISTMAS TIME IN BLUE Instrumental/Orchestra Version
- Christmas Time In Blue (Original Version)
- CHRISTMAS TIME IN BLUE Vocal/Extended Dub Mix
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