Kenji Sawada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kenji Sawada

Singer, composer, lyricist, actor

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1948

Place of Birth: Iwami District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Profession: actor, composer, singer, singer-songwriter, lyricist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Kenji Sawada (?? ??, Sawada Kenji, born June 25, 1948; real surname written as ??) is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers.
Nicknamed "Julie" (????, Juri) because of his self professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami (now part of Tottori), Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3. As a singer (often he also worked as a songwriter) and actor, Sawada prospered greatly on Japanese popular culture in the last three decades of the Showa era.
At the end of the 1960s, he had great success as the lead singer of the band The Tigers.
After the breakup of The Tigers and another project Pyg, he began his own solo career.