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As One (Toshinobu Kubota Album)
''As One'' is the eleventh studio album of Japanese singer Toshinobu Kubota, released on September 27, 2000. Release and promotion On September 27, 2000, Kubota released "As One" on the recording label Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The album debuted at number 5 on the Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ... Albums chart and remained on the chart for a total of eight weeks. The album sold over 148,000 units in Japan. Singles "The Sound of Carnival" was released July 28, 1999. The song peaked at the number nine position on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart.Toshinobu Kubota Oricon R ...
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Toshinobu Kubota
is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician, music producer, and radio personality. He has produced six million-seller records and thirty-three Top 40 singles during his career. Kubota is currently part of Sony Music Japan. In addition, he has composed and written songs for many singers including Hiromi Iwasaki, Misia, Toshinori Yonekura, Kyōko Koizumi, and many other recording artists. Kubota's musical genre has varied throughout his career including R&B, Go-go, soul, funk, blues, reggae, old skool, psychedelia, jazz, and pop. His artistic influences include Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Sly Stone.Toshi Kubota Interview
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Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa. It also had a resurgence with artists like Erykah Badu under the genre neo-soul. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music reflects the African-American identity, and it stresses the importance of an African-Ameri ...
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Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid '90s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu Records. Releases of So ...
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Nothing But Your Love
''Nothing But Your Love'' is the tenth studio album of Japanese singer, Toshinobu Kubota (credited under Toshi Kubota), released on June 28, 2000. Background On June 21, 2000, Kubota released the single "Nothing But Your Love" which charted at number 97. In March 2001, "Masquerade" was released as the second single. In the same year, Kubota began the "Nothing But As One Tour". The album reached number 7 on the Oricon Albums chart and remained on the chart for a total of four weeks. It is also noted that this is Kubota's second English-language album. Track listing # "Nothing But Your Love" (Toshi Kubota) # "Masquerade" (Toshi Kubota, Mercedes Martinez, Tracey Moore) # "Never Turn Back" (featuring Pras) (Toshi Kubota, Joi Cardwell, Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss) # "Body Bounce" (Toshi Kubota, Joi Cardwell, Roger Troutman) # "Someday" (Toshi Kubota, Angie Stone) # "Till She Comes" (Toshi Kubota, Mercedes Martinez, Tracey Moore) # "Pu Pu" (Raphael Saadiq, ...
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United Flow
''United Flow'' is the twelfth studio album by Japanese singer Toshinobu Kubota, released on April 10, 2002. The album sold over 68,000 units in Japan. Release and the charts It was released in 2002 on Columbia Records. It charted pretty high on the ''Billboard'' chart in Japan when it came out, reaching number 6 on the albums chart. The album charted at number 9 on the Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ... Albums chart and remained on the charts for 5 weeks. Track listing # "United Flow (Foreplay)" # "Go" # "無常" # "Do Me Baby" # "Respect (This & That) (Extended Funky Jam Version)" # "#My Bad" # "Heaven?" # "United Flow (Replay)" # "Because of U" # "Free Your Soul" # "Moonstruck" # "Candy Rain" # "In Your Flow (Eternal Flow Version)" References {{Au ...
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ...
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Toshinobu Kubota Albums
Toshinobu is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Toshinobu can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *敏信, "agile, to believe" *敏伸, "agile, to extend" *敏延, "agile, to extend" *俊信, "talented, to believe" *俊伸, "talented, to extend" *俊延, "talented, to extend" *寿信, "long life, to believe" *寿伸, "long life, to extend" *寿延, "long life, to extend" *利信, "benefit, to believe" *利伸, "benefit, to extend" *利延, "benefit, to extend" *年信, "year, to believe" *年伸, "year, to extend" *年延, "year, to extend" The name can also be written in hiragana としのぶ or katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ... トシノブ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese foot ...
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