Across the Chinese New Year's Eve, 62-year-old veteran, Koji Tamaki appeared in the finale of the 71st "NHK Red and White Singing Competition", singing his blockbuster song "Pastoral", which instantly brushed up the Day Push.
Japanese netizens have opened the angry praise mode -
"I think Koji Tamaki is the best singer in Japan. He seems to be just singing casually, but his voice is very good, he knows how to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and he sings some things that are not in the lyrics, which is very divine. ... When I grew up and listened to "Pastoral", I also thought it was a good song. ”#FormatImgID_3 #
This is the second time that Koji Tamaki has appeared as an independent singer in 1996, 24 years later.
In the red and white of that year, Yuji Koji was still a white-faced student; when he returned again, he was already an old man with white hair and fluttering flowers.
1996 VS 2020
If you think the name Koji Tamaki is familiar, you're right, because like Miyuki Nakajima, he is known as "half of the Chinese music scene".
Since 1978, when Xu Xiaofeng sang Aunt Xue's "Rain", "Life is Full of Hope", in the next 30 years, Miyuki Nakajima's songs have been covered by various singers in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
It can be said that without her, there would be no Faye Wong (who sank in Hong Kong for many years, and finally became a hit for "Vulnerable Woman" by changing an old song of Aunt Xue in 1979); Chen Huixian, Zheng Xiuwen, Ren Xianqi, Fan Weiqi and so on were "benefited" from her.
The other half of the country is propped up by Koji Tamaki and his band "Safe Zone".
Yuji Koji and the safe zone, the lower left is Yuji Koji
Turning over the history of Hong Kong music pop in the 80s and 90s, Tam Wing Lin, Chen Baiqiang, Li Keqin, Chen Huixian, Jacky Cheung, Cheung Kwok Wing, Li Ming, Aaron Kwok, Eason Chan, and many classic masterpieces of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers are adapted from the original song of Yu Ji Koji.
Principal Tan's song "Wine-Red Heart" that year made the Chinese people really know Yuji Koji for the first time, and also had the sentence that Xu Guanjie sang in 1985: "Similar to melancholy, Yuji Haoji".
Since then, the Hong Kong music scene seems to have discovered the wealth code, and discovered the great treasure of Yuji Koji and the safe zone.
To list, Hong Kong singers have covered the classic songs of Koji Tamaki:
Li Ketsung, Natsuhi-no-Shinjo, Koji Tamaki, I Love You Kachihaira
Li Keqin, "Missing Her"—Koji Tamaki, "Love Fever"
Li Keqin, "One Thousand and One Nights"— Koji Tamaki, "Juliet"
Li Ketsung, Ryo Satsuki:Koji Tamaki, Lidt Wet with the Moon
Dawn, Overnight Emotions: Koji Tamaki, The Premonition of Love
Dawn, Pre-Dawn Romance—Koji Tamaki,"A Smile and a Cup"
Dawn,"Nyoga-kako kore"—Koji Tamaki 《Friend》
Dawn "Tell Me You'll Wait for Me in Your Dreams" – Koji Tamaki, "Star"
Ying Hui-hyun, Unexpected —Koji Tamaki, Ellis with Blue Eyes
Chen Huixian "Freezing Point" - Koji Tamaki "The Point"
Gakuyu Ying -- Li Ko-hyun-Koji Tamaki, Don't Go
Jacky Cheung ,Silent Eyes' – Koji Tamaki ,Friend
Alumni of the Moon And Half-Curves: Koji Tamaki
Jacky Cheung , "Can't Help But Love" — Koji Tamaki , "Lonely Far"
Jacky Cheung, "Playboy"— Koji Tamaki, "I'm Dandy"
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Yu Ji Koji's popularity in the Hong Kong music scene can be said to be unique for a while. Various record companies have rushed to grab the copyright, the same song, and even have different cover versions, such as Chen Baiqiang and Li Ming have covered "Love" for "In the Cold Wind" and "One Night Love".
One of the most talked-about collaborations between Koji Tamaki and Hong Kong Music is Jacky Cheung's cover of "Li Xianglan".
The original song "行かないで" (don't go) was released at the end of 1989, originally a work of Koji Tamaki who remembered and retained his lover, with average results in Japan, but in 1990, it was included in the album "You in your dreams" by Jacky Cheung as "Li Xianglan", which became popular in the Chinese world like a fire and has been sung to this day.
Some people joke that every time Koji Tamaki and safety zone hold a concert, it is an exhibition of Hong Kong music original songs.
Eason Chan said that he had sung at Koji Tamaki and "although he couldn't understand a word of Japanese, he cried nine times."
However, in Japan, the controversy has also been accompanied by Koji Tamaki.
The singer-songwriter Queen Matsutani, who is on par with Miyuki Nakajima, once criticized his compositional style as too simple and "like a schoolboy".
But at the same time, City-pop godfather Todachi Yamadaru described him as "Japan's most underrated musician," and Hideaki Tokunaga said he was "Japan's best singer."
His song seems to have a magic power, and his deeply penetrating song seems to pierce the bitterness in your heart.
The "melancholy" of Yuji Koji may be the code that has impressed the audience for more than 40 years.
The veteran is still active in the music scene, and last December Koji Tamaki released a new album, Chocolate Cosmos.
"Chocolate Universe" will include songs that Koji Tamaki has written for other singers over the years, and he himself will cover them.
Since his debut and active since the Showa era, his creative power is exuberant, and Koji Tamaki can be called a super singer of this era.
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