Aska (singer-songwriter)

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Aska, past stage name; Ryo Aska or Ryo Asuka (飛鳥 涼 Asuka Ryo?) (born Shigeaki Miyazaki (宮﨑 重明 Miyazaki Shigeaki?) on February 24, 1958, Ono, now part of Onojō, Fukuoka) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

Aska is best known for works on the music duo Chage and Aska. As a composer, he wrote most of principal hit songs for the duo, such as "Morning Moon" "Love Song" "Say Yes" and "Meguriai". Over half of their songs released as a single were written by him. He also wrote for many singers or groups except Chage and Aska. Especially, his songwriting for Hikaru Genji in the end 1980s is famous as his notable works. He began his own solo career in 1987, and highly succeeded in the first half of 1990s. His most well-known song as a solo singer is "Hajimari wa Itsumo Ame", a single from his second album. It reached #2 on oricon and sold over 1,160,000 copies, and success of this song lead his group into the extreme prosperity on Asian music industries.[1]

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  • "My Mr. Lonely Heart" / "Otona ja Nakute ii" (1987, #16)
  • "Midnight 2 Call"/ "Yume Haruka" (1988, #22)
  • "Hajimari wa Itsumo Ame"/"Kimi ga Ai o Katare" (1991, #2)
  • "Seiten o Homerunara Yugure o Mate" / "Only Lonely" (1995, #1)
  • "Every Day Of Your Life" / "CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE" / "TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT" (Richard Marx with Aska) (1997)
  • "ID" / "Kaze no Inryoku" (1997, #4)
  • "One" / "Chakuchiten" / "Konnafuuni" (1997, #19)
  • "Girl" / "Hana wa Saitaka" (1998, #6)
  • "good time" / "judge by myself" (2000, #14)
  • "Kokoro ni Hana no Saku Hou e" (2003, #5)

  • Scene (1988, #3)
  • Scene II (1991, #1)
  • Never End (1995, #1)
  • One (1997, #4)
  • Kicks (1998, #4)
  • Scene III (2005, #6)

  • Aska the Best (1999, #8)
  • Scene I & II (2005, #32)
  • Scene of Scene: Selected 6 Songs from Scene I,II,III (2006, #23)

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Links Shigeaki Miyazaki [[2]]

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