Masashi Sada

まさし さだ

Sada Masashi is a singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and a film producer born April 10, 1952 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Yoshida Masami in 1972, and made debut as a recording artist a year after. The pair rose to fame owing to a hit of a song "Shourou Nagashi" (精霊流し) composed by Sada, which peaked at the number-two on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1974. They broke up in 1976, after producing some hit singles including "En-kiri Dera" (縁切寺) and "Muen Zaka" (無縁坂) subsequently. Sada released the first solo album entitled Kikyorai shortly af…