Toshi Kubota
Encyclopedia
is a J-pop
singer who is originally from Shizuoka Prefecture
, Japan
. He is a part of Sony Music Japan. His music styles have varied over the years, from pop-oriented sounds through to reggae
and soul
.
Kubota has released a total of thirteen Japanese albums, three English albums, and five compilation albums since his debut.
Kubota made his Japanese debut in 1986 with the album Shake It Paradise. His popularity peaked with his award-winning 1990 release Bonga Wanga. Kubota's albums have consistently sold over a million copies each in Japan. His biggest hit single came in 1996 in a duet with Naomi Campbell
entitled "La La La Love song". The single was used as a theme song of a television drama Long Vacation
and sold two million copies in Japan.
Kubota made his English debut in 1995 with the album Sunshine, Moonlight, and followed up with 2000's Nothing But Your Love. His latest release is Gold Skool (August 2011).
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J-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
singer who is originally from Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. He is a part of Sony Music Japan. His music styles have varied over the years, from pop-oriented sounds through to reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
and soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
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Kubota has released a total of thirteen Japanese albums, three English albums, and five compilation albums since his debut.
Kubota made his Japanese debut in 1986 with the album Shake It Paradise. His popularity peaked with his award-winning 1990 release Bonga Wanga. Kubota's albums have consistently sold over a million copies each in Japan. His biggest hit single came in 1996 in a duet with Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...
entitled "La La La Love song". The single was used as a theme song of a television drama Long Vacation
Long Vacation
Long Vacation is a Japanese television drama series from Fuji Television, first shown in Japan from 15 April to 24 June 1996. Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi played the lead characters. The series enjoyed high ratings and was the earliest of a series of hit productions starring Kimura...
and sold two million copies in Japan.
Kubota made his English debut in 1995 with the album Sunshine, Moonlight, and followed up with 2000's Nothing But Your Love. His latest release is Gold Skool (August 2011).
Music collaborations
Kubota has worked with musicians including Al B. Sure!Al B. Sure!
Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B...
, William "Bootsy" Collins, George Clinton
George Clinton (musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...
, Casiopea
Casiopea
, named as a misspelling of the constellation Cassiopeia, was a Japanese jazz fusion band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of...
, Soulhead
SOULHEAD
Soulhead is a Japanese urban contemporary duo consisting of sisters and who hail from Hokkaidō.-Biography:Before they assumed the name Soulhead, they were known as Batti Baas. Batti Baas released one vinyl single through Handcuts Records called "Lovin' You", which featured Aaron Blackmon. The...
, Mos Def
Mos Def
Dante Terrell Smith is an American actor and Emcee known by the stage names Mos Def and Yasiin Bey. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, which...
, Raphael Saddiq, Angie Stone
Angie Stone
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, Caron Wheeler
Caron Wheeler
Caron Wheeler is a two-time Grammy Award winning British R&B/soul singer, who gained fame by writing and singing the lead vocals on the two biggest hits for Soul II Soul Caron Wheeler (19 January 1963) is a two-time Grammy Award winning British R&B/soul singer, who gained fame by writing and...
, Alison Williams, William "Vybe Chyle" Burke, Israel Embry and The Roots
The Roots
The Roots is an American hip hop/neo soul band formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals...
Ahmir Thompson.
Discography
- 1986 (10 September) - Shake It Paradise
- 1987 (22 April) - Groovin'
- 1988 (30 September) - Such A Funky Thang!
- 1989 (8 October) - The Baddest
- 1990 (15 July) - Bonga Wanga
- 1991 (21 September) - Kubojah - Parallel World 1
- 1992 (1 July) - Neptune
- 1993 (22 September) - The Baddest II
- 1995 (28 January) - Bumpin' Voyage
- 1995 (10 September) - Sunshine, MoonlightSunshine, MoonlightSunshine Moonlight is the debut English album of J-pop artist Toshinobu Kubota. It was released on September 5, 1995-Track listing:# "Funk It Up"# "Just the Two of Us"# "Too Light to Do"# "Holding You"# "Jam With Me"# "Angel"# "Get It Together"...
- 1996 (2 December) - La La La Love Song
- 2000 (25 June) - Nothing But Your LoveNothing But Your Love-Track listing:#Nothing But Your Love#Masquerade#Never Turn Back #Body Bounce#Someday#Till She Comes#Pu Pu#Nothing But Your Love #Sha-Ba-Da-Bu-Doo #Shame#I Just Can't Get Enough#It's Over...
- 2000 (27 September) - As OneAs OneAs One is a Korean pop duo consisting of Korean Americans Min Young Lee and Crystal Chae. Their first hit was the song "너만은 모르길," released in 1999 on Rock Records Between their fourth and fifth albums, their contract with Rock Records expired and they signed with EMI Korea; a label which also...
- 2002 (10 April) - United Flow
- 2002 (24 July) - The Baddest ~ Only For Lovers In The Mood
- 2002 (4 December) - The Baddest III
- 2004 (21 September) - Time To ShareTime To ShareTime To Share is the third english release from Japanese musician Toshinobu Kubota. It was released four years after his last English album, and features Angie Stone, Mos Def, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.-Track listing:#Beating of My Heart 4:20...
- 2006 (1 March) - For Real?
- 2010 (24 February) - Timeless Fly
- 2010 (24 November) - Love & Rain ~ Love Songs
- 2011 (3 August) - Gold Skool