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Toshinobu Kubota
Toshinobu "Toshi" Kubota is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician, music producer, and radio personality. He has produced six million-seller records and thirty-three Top 40 singles during his career. Kubota is currently part of Sony Music Japan. In addition, he has composed and written songs for many singers including Hiromi Iwasaki, Misia, Toshinori Yonekura, Kyōko Koizumi, 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 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", "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 seventeen studio albums and ten compilation albums. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshinobu_Kubota) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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La La La Love Song
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LOVE RAIN ～恋の雨～ - Love Rain - Koino Ame
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諸行は無常 - Shogyou wa mujou
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Missing
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M☆A☆G☆I☆C - Magic
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Albums

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Beautiful People

2019
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Gold Skool

2011
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United Flow

2002
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THE BADDEST - Collaboration

2016
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Timeless Fly

2010
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As One

2000
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L.O.K

2015
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FOR REAL?

2006
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Parallel World II KUBOSSA

2013
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Time To Share

2004

Singles & EPs

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Shogyou wa mujou

Single • 2025
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LIFE ("Byouinno Naoshikata" Version)

Single • 2020
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You Go Lady

Single • 2018
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Life Like This

Single • 2024
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Sonohito

Single • 2019
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Loving Power

Single • 2015
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the Beat of Life

Single • 2024
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FUN FUN CHANT

Single • 2019
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Boogie Ride / Sora no Uta

Single • 2020
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So Beautiful

Single • 2018

Videos

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久保田利伸 - 諸行は無常 ～BEHIND THE SCENES～

Toshinobu Kubota • 22K views
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久保田利伸 - GODDESS～新しい女神～ [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 9.2K views
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久保田利伸 meets KREVA - M☆A☆G☆I☆C [Official Video]

KREVA & Toshinobu Kubota • 49K views
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久保田利伸 - 諸行は無常 [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 548K views
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久保田利伸 - Our Christmas [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 15K views
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久保田利伸 - ooh wee Rida [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 11K views
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久保田利伸 - Missing [Official Video Short ver.]

Toshinobu Kubota • 1M views

Featured on

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Groove City

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Japan Hits: '80s

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R&B Japan

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Japan Big Hits

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Heisei Era Hits

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Catch Up Japan

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Japan Hits: '90s

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