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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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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