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" ({{#invoke:Lang|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" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) and "Muen Zaka" ({{#invoke:Lang|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" ({{#invoke:Lang|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 ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Lost Property (25 August 1974)
- Seseragi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Babble (25 May 1975)
- Communication ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (25 November 1975)
- Ano Koro ni Tsuite -Season of Raisin- ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (10 November 1991) / name as 'Raisin'
solo
- Kikyorai ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / I Come Back (25 November 1976)
- Kazamidori ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Weathercock (25 July 1977)
- Anthology ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (25 March 1978)
- Yume Kuyo ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Memorials of Dreams (10 April 1979)
- Inshoha ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Impressionists (10 October 1980)
- Utsuroi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Transition (25 June 1981)
- Yume no Wadachi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Rut of Dreams (11 December 1982)
- Kaze no Omokage ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Vestiges of Winds (30 November 1983)
- Glass Age ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (12 December 1984)
- ADVANTAGE (12 June 1985)
- Jibun Shokogun ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Oneself Syndrome (21 December 1985)
- Yume Kaikisen ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / The Dream Tropic (25 July 1987)
- Kazemachi Dori no Hitobito ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / People on the Street that is Waiting for Breeze (25 July 1988)
- Yume no Fuku Koro ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Time Blowing Dream (25 January 1989)
- Yume Bakari Miteita ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) I Only Dreamed (25 February 1990)
- Yume Kaikisen II ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / The Dream Tropic Second (25 August 1990)
- Kazoku no Shozo ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) Portrait of a Family (25 July 1991)
- Honobono ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Heartwarming (10 November 1992)
- Aimiteno ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Rendezvous (25 October 1993)
- Omoide Dorobo ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Burglar who Steal Dreams (25 October 1994)
- Sayonara Nippon ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Good-bye Japan (25 October 1995)
- Furukusai Koi no Uta Bakari ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Just old-fashioned Love Songs (25 October 1996)
- Yumeuta ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Dream Song (21 November 1997)
- Kokoro no Jidai ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}} / Period of Heart (23 September 1998)
- Toki no Sumika ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Habitats of Seasons (23 June 1999)
- Nihon Kaku Setsu ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Japan Fancied Theory (21 September 2000)
- Alstroemeria ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (27 February 2002)
- Yume no Tsuzuki ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Continuation of a Dream (26 September 2002)
- Slow Life Story ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (22 October 2003)
- Koibumi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Love Letter (22 September 2004)
- Tokoshie ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Forever (7 September 2005)
- Utsukushiki Nihon no Omokage ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Beautiful Japanese Vestiges (6 September 2006)
- Mist (12 September 2007)
- Utsukushii Asa / Beautiful Morning ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (9 June 2009)
- Yokan ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Premonition (9 June 2010)
- Sada City (11 July 2011)
- Mou Kurukoro... ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Time It Will Come (13 June 2012)
- Dai Ni Gakushou ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / The Second Movement (10 September 2014)
- Kaze no Kiseki ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) / Track of winds (8 July 2015)
- Reborn ~Umaretate no Sada Masashi~ ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (4 July 2018)
- Shin-Jibunfudoki I ~Boukyou~ ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (15 May 2019)
- Shin-Jibunfudoki II ~Mahoroba~ ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (15 May 2019)
- 45th Anniversary Concert Tour 2018 Reborn-Masashi Sada ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) (26 June 2019)