Hiroshi Sato Lyrics

Sato grew up the eldest son at a temple near the southernmost tip of Japan’s southernmost island, KyushuAs a teenager, he sang Elvis Presley songs in the temple and spent his days recording music on an early multi-track recorder in the temple’s storeroom A few years later, he moved to Kyoto, where he took up the bass guitarAt 20, he began teaching himself the piano, and shortly thereafter began playing with Masaki Ueda and other artists in the Kyoto area Some of his earliest professional experience included working with Haruomi Hosono in Tin Pan Alley following Hosono’s departure from Happy End in 1974.In 1979, Sato released the album Orient, featuring Ueda, Hosono and other frequent collaboratorsHosono’s bassline can be heard on some of Or... read more