Keisuke Kuwata of the popular band "Southern All Stars (Southern)" will appear in the talk show "Interviewer Hayashi Osamu" on the variety show "Sunday First Time Hearing" (MBS/TBS) broadcast at 10:25 pm on April 13th. The first part of a three-hour long interview will be broadcast on the same day.
Southern All Stars' latest album "THANK YOU SO MUCH" topped the Oricon charts, making them the first group in history to achieve "five consecutive years of No. 1 albums" from the 1980s to the 2020s. Many behind-the-scenes stories are revealed, including how the title came about, the unique lyric expressions such as "Muneawagi no Koshitsuki" (a foreboding hips) in "Katte ni Sindbad" and how unique titles such as "Manpee no G★Spot" (Manpee's G★Spot) were created.
"It may be a hometown love, but I still miss my childhood," says Kuwata, who was born in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, revealing his strong passion for songwriting. In response to Hayashi's sudden and unreasonable request, he even took up his guitar and started an improvisation session on the spot, saying that he had never done it before.
He also talks about the sudden illness that struck Kuwata in 2010, the days of his battle with the illness, the support of his wife, Hara Yuko, through those days, and his job hunting.
