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Kosetsu Minami was born in Oita in 1949, and formed the band Kaguyahime since 1970. Its distinctive musicianship and vitality taking Japan's nascent folk music scene by storm, Kaguyahime released a string of million-sellers, including Kandagawa, Akachochin and Imoto, and six albums that were number one sellers. After Kaguyahime disbanded in 1975, Minami continued to produce big hits such as Natsu no Shojo and Yume Hitoyo, while at the same time using his unique sense of humor and gift for story telling to make a name for himself as a broadcaster/dj on late night radio and so forth. Minami has also been a pioneer of innovative musical events, attracting 60,000 fans to the all-night concert that he put on in Tsumagoi with Takuro Yoshida, and meeting with success as the first Japanese artist to hold a concert at the Nippon Budokan. The series of “Summer Picnic” all-night concerts that he held each summer in Kyushu over the space of ten years from 1981 to 1990 could be regarded as a symbol of his skills at organizing big events, and one of his life works _ one that received a new lease of life in August 1999 when he put on the first “Summer Picnic” in nine years in Fukuoka. Again over the space of ten years, from 1986 Minami also produced and performed in an annual “Hiroshima Peace Concert”, raising a total of over €200 million towards the building a new nursing home for radiation victims. Another long term project has been his series of “Green Paradise” c...

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