Lindberg (band)
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Lindberg is a Japan
ese pop
/rock
band that was active from 1989 to 2002 and again in 2009. It is now defunct.
crowd, and was unique in that in the time of its inception in 1989, few Japan
ese "rock" bands had female members, much less a female lead singer. The band retired in 2002 following the marriage of the lead singer, Watase Maki, to the lead guitarist Hirakawa Tatsuya; rounding out the band were bassist
Kawazoe Tomohisa and drummer
Koyanagi "Cherry" Masanori.
Kawazoe Tomohisa, one of the bands musicians, became a founding member of another Japanese female-fronted Pop/Rock band, Ai+Band, in 2003.
Lindberg reunited in 2009 and released their twentieth anniversary album Lindberg XX in April 2009 through their new label Avex Trax
, featuring new songs and re-recordings of their popular hits. Also in 2009, Lindberg members Maki Watase and Tatsuya Hirakawa began writing and producing music for Jurian Beat Crisis
, a Japanese singer that debuted that year.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
/rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band that was active from 1989 to 2002 and again in 2009. It is now defunct.
History
Lindberg typically appealed to the junior high to early high schoolHigh school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
crowd, and was unique in that in the time of its inception in 1989, few Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese "rock" bands had female members, much less a female lead singer. The band retired in 2002 following the marriage of the lead singer, Watase Maki, to the lead guitarist Hirakawa Tatsuya; rounding out the band were bassist
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
Kawazoe Tomohisa and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Koyanagi "Cherry" Masanori.
Kawazoe Tomohisa, one of the bands musicians, became a founding member of another Japanese female-fronted Pop/Rock band, Ai+Band, in 2003.
Lindberg reunited in 2009 and released their twentieth anniversary album Lindberg XX in April 2009 through their new label Avex Trax
Avex Trax
, listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange as 7860 and abbreviated as AGHD, is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan...
, featuring new songs and re-recordings of their popular hits. Also in 2009, Lindberg members Maki Watase and Tatsuya Hirakawa began writing and producing music for Jurian Beat Crisis
Jurian Beat Crisis
is a Japanese singer that debuted under the Avex Trax label in 2009. She is known by her stage name of Jurian Beat Crisis . Her stage name Jurian Beat Crisis is officially regarded as a band.- Early life :Juria Kawakami was born and raised in Hokkaidō, Japan...
, a Japanese singer that debuted that year.
Albums
- Lindberg I (1989)
- Lindberg II (1989)
- Lindberg III (1990)
- Lindberg IV (1991)
- Lindberg Extra Flight (1991)
- Lindberg V (1992)
- Lindberg Flight Recorder 1989-1992: Little Wing (1992)
- Lindberg VI (1993)
- Lindberg Extra Flight II (1993)
- Lindberg Lindy Wingding (1994)
- Lindberg VII (1994)
- Lindberg VIII (1995)
- Lindberg IX (1996)
- Lindberg X (1997)
- Lindberg XI (1998)
- Lindberg XII (1999)
- Lindberg XIII (2001)
- Lindberg XIV (2002)
- Lindberg XV (2002)
- Lindberg XX: The 20th Anniversary (2009)
Singles
- ROUTE 246 (April 25, 1989)
- 今すぐKiss Me (Ima sugu Kiss Me) (February 7, 1990)
- JUMP (March 28, 1990)
- Dream On 抱きしめて (Dream On dakishimete) (September 26, 1990)
- ROUGH DIAMOND (October 24, 1990)
- OH! ANGEL (November 21, 1990)
- GLORY DAYS (March 27, 1991)
- BELIEVE IN LOVE (July 3, 1991)
- I MISS YOU (October 18, 1991)
- 恋をしようよ Yeah! Yeah! (Koi wo shiyou yo Yeah! Yeah!) (April 22, 1992)
- さよならBeautiful Days / 千年たっても (Sayonara Beautiful Days / Sennen tatte mo) (November 6, 1992)
- Magical Dreamer (November 13, 1992)
- 胸さわぎのAfter School (Munesawagi no After School) (March 17, 1993)
- 会いたくて～Lover Soul~ (Aitakute ~Lover Soul~) (June 18, 1993)
- 想い出のWater Moon / 君に吹く風 (Omoide no Water Moon / Kimi ni fuku kaze) (August 11, 1993)
- だってそうじゃない!? (Datte sou ja nai!?) (October 22, 1993)
- 大キライ！ / 二人きりで行こうよ (Daikirai! / Futari kiri de ikou yo) (November 12, 1993)
- 夢であえたら / とびきりの夜 (Yume de aetara / Tobikiri no yoru) (December 1, 1993)
- GAMBAらなくちゃね (GAMBAranakucha ne) (March 16, 1993)
- 清く正しく行こう (Kiyoku tadashiku ikou) (May 18, 1994)
- さよならをあげる (Sayonara wo ageru) (March 16, 1995)
- 水着とBeachとBoys (Mizugi to Beach to Boys) (May 2, 1995)
- もっと愛しあいましょ (Motto aishiaimasho) (November 1, 1995)
- 君のいちばんに・・・ (Kimi no ichiban ni...) (May 1, 1996)
- every little thing every precious thing (July 1, 1996, 2007) - a theme song at Hanshin Koshien StadiumKoshien Stadiumis a baseball park located near Kobe in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The stadium was built to host the national high school baseball tournaments, and opened on April 1, 1924. It was the largest stadium in Asia at the time it was completed, with a capacity of 55,000.The name Kōshien comes...
for Kyuji FujikawaKyuji Fujikawais a closer for the Hanshin Tigers.Fujikawa pitched in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A prototypical power pitcher, Fujikawa is said to have one of the most explosive fastballs in all of Japanese professional baseball and is one of Japan's premier...
, a pitcher for the Hanshin TigersHanshin TigersThe are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and are in the Central League. Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., owns the Hanshin Tigers directly...
baseball team - Green eyed Monster (August 19, 1996)
- YAH! YAH! YAH! (February 13, 1997)
- 明日は明日の風が吹く (Ashita wa ashita no kaze ga fuku) (April 16, 1997)
- Sugar Free (May 28, 1997)
- 風 (Kaze) (March 4, 1998)
- 願いがかなうように (Negai ga kanau you ni) (October 21, 1999)
- frosty love (February 21, 2001)
- you were there (January 1, 2002)
- Teenage Blue (June 26, 2002)
- it's too late (August 7, 2002)
- Live Your Life (December 9, 2009) - last single overall and first single under Avex Group