Sard Underground (stylized in

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) is a Japanese musical group under the

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label. In September 2019, they debuted with their cover album ''Zard Tribute''. As a cover band of the Japanese artist

Zard were a Japanese pop rock group, originally with five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as its only constant member. Zard's work was sold under the record label B-Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are , , and " M ...

, their name is derived from Zard.

History

2019: Band formation and "Zard Tribute" album

The band formation has started in the December 2018 by introducing only Yua herself with the social network accounts creation. In February, the band has announced 4 stable members and soon held first one-man live in the live venue Hills Pankojo Factory in Osaka. In June, two cover songs has received a promotion: '' My Friend'' was promoted as an image song to the marathon event ''Tohoku Miyagi Revive'' and ''

Makenaide is the 6th single by Zard released on 27 January 1993 under B-Gram Records label. Background According to the song's composer Tetsurō Oda, Izumi Sakai was singing "strangely," but it proved to be good. The single reached #1 rank first week. It ...

'' as a theme song to the ''High School Basketball Winter Cup''. Both of the songs were included in the cover album Zard Tribute, which released on 18 September. The album debuted at number 24 on the Oricon Album Weekly Charts and charted 10 weeks. In November, they appeared in the music event DFT presents Ototo ONTO vol.6.

2020: Debut single "Sukoshi Zutsu Sukoshi Zutsu"

On February 10, the twenty-ninth anniversary of Zard's first single " Good-bye My Loneliness", the band released their debut single "Sukoshi Zutsu Sukoshi Zutsu." It is an unreleased song written by Zard vocalist

Izumi Sakai , known professionally as , was a female Japanese pop singer, songwriter, and member of the group Zard. As Sakai was the only member who stayed in the group while others joined and left regularly, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. ...

and composed by frequent Zard collaborator

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. The single was used as an ending theme to the anime television series

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, which featured many Zard songs from 1999 to 2008. A cover of Zard's first single and its B side "Ai wa Kurayami no Naka de" were also included on the regular and ''

'' editions of the single, respectively. On June 3, the band released their second single "Korekara no Kimi ni Kampai," another unreleased song written by Sakai. It was composed by another frequest Zard collaborator,

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. The song was featured as the theme song of

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's music television program ''+music''. The single also included two new covers of Zard songs.

2021: Asaka Miyuu leaves Sard Underground

On May 26, 2021, via Sard Underground's office site it was announced that guitarist Asaka Miyuu had departed Sard Underground and her exclusive contract had been cancelled. After a doctor's diagnosis it was decided it would be difficult for her to continue her activities as a member of the band and she withdrew. The departure of Miyuu also pushed back the release of the original album "At the end of summer..." to an undetermined future date.

Members

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* - bass,

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* -

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s, backing vocals

Past member

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s, backing vocals

Discography

Singles

Albums

References

External links

Sard official Web site

Sard Official YouTube channel
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