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.

永遠の翼
久保田利伸 Lyrics

大空に羽ばたくもののように
銀色の翼を広げるのさ
永遠の扉君があけるよ
Let me fly with your love

雨まじりの午後の街
人混みの中で微笑んでた
踊る髪と優しい目が
今までの誰とも違ってた
肩をおとして歩いてく

心ふさぐ僕の前に
現れた君は不思議さ
全てを輝きにかえていた

さしのべた白い指から
七色にこぼれる雫に身体包まれて
太陽の愛に近い場所から
凍てついたこの街を見下ろそう
悩みならみんな忘れられるさ
Let me fly with your love

抱きしめてたぬくもりが
さよならのあとまで続いてる
ほんの少しふきかけられた君の愛で
花が咲きかえす
もしも目の前の姿が
Baby oh oh 天使なら
僕をまたひとり残して
どこかへとびさってしまうのか
星空で探したいのさ
君と光うけて遠い彼方へかけよう

Oh, tell me some, boy
Come on, you know who is here
And sing a love song

大空に羽ばたくもののように
銀色の翼を広げるのさ
悩みならみんな忘れられるさ
歌いつづけよう na na na na na, na na hey hey

Na na na na, na na na na na
Na na na na wow wa wa wa wa na na na na (still tender)
Woo, take my love, and take my love, and take my love
Take my love
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Woo (still tender) na na na na na na makes me, makes me right
Still tender
Still tender (still tender)

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Written by: Toshinobu Kubota

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