Name Kenichi Hagiwara | Role Singer | |
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Albums DONJUAN, Nadja, Thank You My Dear Friends Live Movies Kagemusha, Village of Eight Gravestones, Ghost Pub, Tajomaru: Avenging Blade, Capone Cries a Lot | ||
Tempters - Wasure Emu Kimi
Kenichi Hagiwara (萩原健一; Hagiwara Ken'ichi, born 26 July 1950 in Omiya, Saitama, Japan), also known as Sho-Ken, was the lead singer of The Tempters , the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans.
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After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters, and The Spiders.
He was in the Donjuan R&R Band with Hideki Ishima, formerly of The Flowers Travelln' Band.
Kenichi hagiwara
Current career
He is still popular as an actor in the early 2000s,and a "bad boy" even in his fifties, with minor (but highly publicized) brushes with law enforcement.
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