Toshinobu "Toshi" Kubota (久保田利伸 Kubota Toshinobu, born 24 July 1962) is a J… Read Full Bio ↴Toshinobu "Toshi" Kubota (久保田利伸 Kubota Toshinobu, born 24 July 1962) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician, music producer, and radio personality. Toshinobu Kubota has produced six million-seller records and thirty-three Top 40 singles during his career. He is currently part of Sony Music Japan. In addition, Kubota has composed and written songs for many singers including Iwasaki Hiromi, Misia, Toshinori Yonekura, Koizumi Kyoko, 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. Kubota has pioneered in the sound "Japanese hip hop" and "Japanese soul", an amalgam of funk, pop, R&B and go go that has influenced many other musicians.

Kubota has a tenor and falsetto vocal range and is known for his signature songs "Dance If You Want It", "Missing", "Love Rain (Koi no Ame)", "You Were Mine", "Give You My Love", and "La La La Love Song", which was the theme song of the television drama Long Vacation. Kubota has a total of nineteen studio albums and ten compilation albums. He has sold over sixteen million records worldwide to date.

君のそばに
久保田利伸 Lyrics

愛しさの置き場所を
今見つけ出して
舞い降りた情熱がそっと
君を抱いた (君を抱いた)
この星に寄り添う月のよう
永久に瞳映し合う
降り出す愛が出会う呼吸が
想いほどいてゆく
生命(いのち)の雨が頬濡らすまま
ずっと君のそばに

恋をするその先は誰も覚束ない
偽りに守られた朝に
月は出ない (月は出ない)
つばさ運んでゆく風のよう
永久に君を乗せたまま
乾いた夢が彷徨う声が
天(そら)にさらわれてく
もう迷わないもう怯えない
ずっと君のそばに

降り出す愛が出会う呼吸が
想いほどいてゆく
生命(いのち)の雨が頬濡らすまま
ずっと君のそばに

I'm on your side
with moonlight...
(I'm always on your side...)
I'm on your side
with moonlight...
on your side
(I'm always on your side...)
I'm on your side
with moonlight...
(I'm always on your side...)
I'm on your side ...
(with moonlight...)
(I'm always on your side...)
I'm on your side ...
(with moonlight...)
(I'm always on your side...)

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Written by: KUBOTA TOSHINOBU

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