Kenji Sawada is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers.
10 Facts About Kenji Sawada
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Kenji Sawada was the lead singer of the best-known J-pop music act of the late 1960s Group Sounds era band The Tigers.
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Kenji Sawada's nickname is derived from the actress Julie Andrews as he is a fan of hers.
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In 1970, after The Tigers broke up, Kenji Sawada formed the supergroup, Pyg.
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Kenichi Hagiwara, Kenji Sawada's main rival in the Group Sounds era, was a co-lead vocalist.
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When Pyg disbanded, Kenji Sawada went solo, but acting was to be his main form of artistic expression after that.
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Kenji Sawada started to wear trendy clothes and make-up in the 1970s, and became regarded as an influential fashion innovator.
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Kenji Sawada appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in March 1969, and is the only Japanese as a cover person of this magazine other than Yoko Ono.
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Kenji Sawada married Emi Ito, a member of the 1960s pop duo The Peanuts, in 1975, but they divorced in 1987.
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Kenji Sawada has been married to Oshin star Yuko Tanaka since 1989, whom he met on the set of Tora-san, the Expert.