Masashi Sada
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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese singer, lyricist, and composer.
Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Masami Yoshida in 1972, and they made their debut as recording artists a year afterward. The pair rose to fame owing to the hit song "Shourou Nagashi" (Template:Lang) composed by Sada, which peaked at the number-two position on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1974. They broke up in 1976, after producing some hit singles including "En-kiri Dera" (Template:Lang) and "Muen Zaka" (Template:Lang).
Sada released his first solo album entitled Kikyorai shortly after Grape's dissolution. Following the commercial success of the number-one hit single "Amayadori" (Template:Lang, Shelter from the rain) in 1977, he enjoyed a recording career as one of the most popular Japanese male artists during the late 1970s and the first half of the 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.
Discography
Albums
Grape (with Masami Yoshida)
- Wasuremono (Template:Lang) / Lost Property (25 August 1974)
- Seseragi (Template:Lang) / Babble (25 May 1975)
- Communication (Template:Lang) (25 November 1975)
- Ano Koro ni Tsuite -Season of Raisin- (Template:Lang) (10 November 1991) / name as 'Raisin'
solo
- Kikyorai (Template:Lang) / I Come Back (25 November 1976)
- Kazamidori (Template:Lang) / Weathercock (25 July 1977)
- Anthology (Template:Lang) (25 March 1978)
- Yume Kuyo (Template:Lang) / Memorials of Dreams (10 April 1979)
- Inshoha (Template:Lang) / Impressionists (10 October 1980)
- Utsuroi (Template:Lang) / Transition (25 June 1981)
- Yume no Wadachi (Template:Lang) / Rut of Dreams (11 December 1982)
- Kaze no Omokage (Template:Lang) / Vestiges of Winds (30 November 1983)
- Glass Age (Template:Lang) (12 December 1984)
- ADVANTAGE (12 June 1985)
- Jibun Shokogun (Template:Lang) / Oneself Syndrome (21 December 1985)
- Yume Kaikisen (Template:Lang) / The Dream Tropic (25 July 1987)
- Kazemachi Dori no Hitobito (Template:Lang) / People on the Street that is Waiting for Breeze (25 July 1988)
- Yume no Fuku Koro (Template:Lang) / Time Blowing Dream (25 January 1989)
- Yume Bakari Miteita (Template:Lang) I Only Dreamed (25 February 1990)
- Yume Kaikisen II (Template:Lang) / The Dream Tropic Second (25 August 1990)
- Kazoku no Shozo (Template:Lang) Portrait of a Family (25 July 1991)
- Honobono (Template:Lang) / Heartwarming (10 November 1992)
- Aimiteno (Template:Lang) / Rendezvous (25 October 1993)
- Omoide Dorobo (Template:Lang) / Burglar who Steal Dreams (25 October 1994)
- Sayonara Nippon (Template:Lang) / Good-bye Japan (25 October 1995)
- Furukusai Koi no Uta Bakari (Template:Lang) / Just old-fashioned Love Songs (25 October 1996)
- Yumeuta (Template:Lang) / Dream Song (21 November 1997)
- Kokoro no Jidai (Template:Lang / Period of Heart (23 September 1998)
- Toki no Sumika (Template:Lang) / Habitats of Seasons (23 June 1999)
- Nihon Kaku Setsu (Template:Lang) / Japan Fancied Theory (21 September 2000)
- Alstroemeria (Template:Lang) (27 February 2002)
- Yume no Tsuzuki (Template:Lang) / Continuation of a Dream (26 September 2002)
- Slow Life Story (Template:Lang) (22 October 2003)
- Koibumi (Template:Lang) / Love Letter (22 September 2004)
- Tokoshie (Template:Lang) / Forever (7 September 2005)
- Utsukushiki Nihon no Omokage (Template:Lang) / Beautiful Japanese Vestiges (6 September 2006)
- Mist (12 September 2007)
- Utsukushii Asa / Beautiful Morning (Template:Lang) (9 June 2009)
- Yokan (Template:Lang) / Premonition (9 June 2010)
- Sada City (11 July 2011)
- Mou Kurukoro... (Template:Lang) / Time It Will Come (13 June 2012)
- Dai Ni Gakushou (Template:Lang) / The Second Movement (10 September 2014)
- Kaze no Kiseki (Template:Lang) / Track of winds (8 July 2015)
- Reborn ~Umaretate no Sada Masashi~ (Template:Lang) (4 July 2018)
- Shin-Jibunfudoki I ~Boukyou~ (Template:Lang) (15 May 2019)
- Shin-Jibunfudoki II ~Mahoroba~ (Template:Lang) (15 May 2019)
- 45th Anniversary Concert Tour 2018 Reborn-Masashi Sada (Template:Lang) (26 June 2019)