Then Japanese singers likeMasayuki Suzukialias Martin might be called dark-eyed-soul. He formed a chorus group with his friends and started his career. Back then, they were attracted by R&B and soul music, especially doo-wops. He started his career as a solo singer in1986. Since then, he has worked together with various musicians and performed a lot of love songs about mature romance between adult men and women. " performing love songs for more than a quarter of a century...
At a concert in 2008, Suzuki talked that he wishes to keep on performing good love songs bearing the title of "vocalist"
.
Famous songwriters wrote songs for this album; such as SMAP
), Touko Furuuchi
, and Chikuzen Satou
. Chikuzen is highly appreciated as a composer, but " Walk Of Life
" is the first song Chikuzen wrote both words and music for other singer. His new song "Kimino machihi yukuyo" (I'll visit your town)
, words and music by Chikuzen again, is distributed onSuzuki's official label site