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Fukuyama Masaharu | |
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| Date of Birth | 6 February 1969 |
| Place of Birth | Nagasaki |
First, Masaharu Fukuyama presented the single, "In the remembrance rain" on 21 March, 1990. But, at that time, he wasn't known well and didn't have money at all because this single didn't sell well. His first work didn't succeed.
After that, he gathered all the songs which he had ever made and made the first album, "Message" on 21 April, but this album also didn't succeed. He also presented the single, "Access", and became famous because the song was used on Victor's commercial.
He also broadcasted "All Night Nippon" on Nippon radio station every Thursday midnight. This is the radio program that Japanese famous talents broadcast and has kept for more than twenty years and may be the most famous radio program in Japan.
And he has kept composing singles and albums and also presented many videos, and came to be known well.
He presented the best selling single on 21 May, 1992, "Good Night". He also performed in "How about Love?" as a actor and this song was used in this program.
He kept writing and singing songs, while he began to appear on TV and radio programs.
In 1993, he performed in "Under one roof" and presented the singles ("MELODY", "All My Loving" and "My Lover") one after another and all of them sold very well and used in commercials and TV programs. He also gathered them and presented his best selling album, "Calling".
Finally, he appeared on "Kohaku Utagassen" which is a famous music program that takes place on New Year's Eve. The singers who can appear on it are first-class.
In 1995, he releases the album "M-Collection I'm looking for wind" with all the singles which he had ever made. He is currently a radio personality at an FM radio station in Tokyo.
1987
In April, he graduated from high school. In September, he went to Tokyo and passed the audition of "10 movies" held by Amuse in December.
1988
In October, he began his first album recording. In November, he took part in a movie called "HON NO 5g"
1989
His first release of album was postponed. 15th August, he had his first 'live'(concert) in Tokyo, Shinjuku. But--no audience.
1990
21st March, his first single, In the remember rain, released.
21st April, his first album, Message, released.
7th November, his second single, Access, released. This is the CF song of a Victor Mini Movie.BMG Victor is his recording company.
He had 4 mini concert this year.
1991
21st February, his third single, I.m looking for the wind, released.
21st April, his second album, Lion, released.
Started from April, he had a regular radio program in FM Yokohama called "ROCK AGE".
From October to December, he took part in a TV drama called "Because there is tomorrow" with Imai Miki.
21st October, his forth single "WOH WOW" released.
6th November, he had a mini concert and this was the first time all the tickters were sold out.
1992
Started from 10th January, he had his personal radio program called "All Night Nippon".
21st January, his first promotion video "BROS." released.
From April to June, he started his second TV drama called "How about love".
21st May, his fifth single "Good night", which was the song of this TV drama released and he became more popular since this single had about 300 thousand sales.
From July to August, he started his first concert tour called "WE'RE BROS. TOUR '92~HELLO I'M HERE~" in Japan.
From October to December, he started his third TV drama called "Homework".
28th October, his sixth single "Promise hill" released.
21st November, his forth album "Boots" released. This is the first time that all the songs are written by him.
16th December, his artist book "Roadsong" released in which there are a lot of handsome photos of Fukuyama Masaharu.
1993
From January to February, he had another tour called "WE'RE BROS. ~TOUR '93 PROMISE HILL~".
From April to June, he took part in an EXCELLENT TV drama, UNDER ONE ROOF, with many popular artists Sakai Noriko, Ishida Issei, Uchida Yuki, Eguchi Yousuke......This drama made him become a very, very popular artist in Japan. After that, all his singles and albums had very good sales.
2nd June, his seventh single, Melody, and his concert video "START" released.This was the first time he had a ranking of fifth in Oricon Chart.
In July, he was voted to be the best jeanist.
29th September, his eighth single, All My Loving, which is the cover version of a song Sunlight by Leon Lai, released.
Started from October, he had another concert tour called "WE'RE BROS. TOUR '93 ~ '94".
21st October, his fifth album, Calling, released. This is the first time that his album sales goes beyond 1 million.
1st December, he took part in a campaign called "Act Against Aids 93" (AAA).
1994
24th March, his ninth single, It's only Love, released. The sales went beyond one million and 4 weeks consecutively the first in Oricon Chart. Great!!
9th June, his sixth album called "On and On" released. The ranking was the first in Oricon Chart first week.
Started from June, he had another concert tour called "WE'RE BROS. TOUR 1994" in Japan. Then, a tour book called Leica.Live.Life released. This book contains a lot of photos during this tour.
1st December, he took part in a concert for "Act Against Aids" again.
1995
6th February, tenth single, Hello, released. The sales was near 2 million and had a third ranking in annual sales of singles in 1995.
9th June, his seventh album, M Collection, released. This is a collection of all his songs in singles. This album's sales also goes beyond 1 million. This ensure -- he really has ability about music
From July to September, he had another TV drama called "We must meet again in some time" with Sakurai Sachiko.
2nd October, eleventh single, Message, which is song of a film called "Birthday Present", released.
21st October, the sound track of this movie released also.The sound track are all Fukuyama Masaharu's songs.
From October to November, he had a new tour called "WE'RE BROS. SPECIAL '95".
1997
Begin at 14th April, he go back to work and take part in a new drama which many fans very longed for-- Under One Roof II. Besides the basic artists such as Sakai Noriko, Ishida Issei. There is a new member of their family, Matsu Takako. U re si i!
1998
Start from April, he took part in a drama called "Meguri ai" with Tokiwa Takako.
At 30th April, his 11th single released. The sound track of "Meguri ai"(include his previous songs) also released.
At 30 June, his 9th album released.
He took his new tour, We're BROS. tour'98 "Like a Hurricane", started from 9 Sept 1998!
His 12th single,Peach!! released at 5th November.
1999
Start from July, he participated in a drama called "Perfect Love" with Kimura Yoshino.
Both his new single(Rendezvous I) and sountrack of "Perfect Love"(Rendezvous II) released on 4th August.
His best album called, Magnum collection 1999 "Dear", released on 8th December.
12/24,25,27,28,30,31 he hold his concert at Yokohama.
2000
Start from April, he had a concert tours -- Fukuyama Masaharu 10th Anniversary, We're Bros. Tour "Magnum Collection 2000". The dates are :
15,16,20,21,25,26,29,30 /April.
6,7,13,14,19,20,25,26 /May.
1,2,10,11,13,14 /June.
A single called "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" released at 26th April.
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