Kenichi Hagiwara

Ken'ichi Hagiwara
萩原健一
Born	Keizō Hagiwara (1950-07-26)26 July 1950 Yono, Saitama, Japan
Died	26 March 2019(2019-03-26) (aged 68) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, singer
Years active	1966–2019
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Spouses	Hitomi Koizumi ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1978)​ Ayumi Ishida ​ ​ (m. 1980; div. 1984)​ Yuki ​ ​ (m. 1996; div. 2006)​ Rika Tomita ​ (m. 2011)​

Kenichi Hagiwara (萩原 健一, Hagiwara Ken'ichi, 26 July 1950 – 26 March 2019) was a Japanese singer and actor.

Also known as Sho-Ken, he was the lead singer of The Tempters,^[1] which was a blues-rock band connected to the Group Sounds scene, and gained big hits in the late 1960s. Hagiwara was known for his good looks and wild vocals, which appealed to young male and female fans.^[2] After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters, and The Spiders.^[3] He was in the Donjuan R&R Band with Hideki Ishima, formerly of The Flowers Travelln' Band.^[4]

After being highly praised for his acting in the film The Rendezvous (1972), he appeared in many films and television shows, including many films directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro and such hit TV dramas as Taiyō ni hoero!, Kizudarake no tenshi, and Zenryaku ofukurosama.^[5] He was still popular as an actor in the early 2000s,.^[6]

On 26 March 2019, Hagiwara died of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor at the age of 68 in a hospital in Tokyo. He had been fighting the disease since 2011, but declined to publicize the name of the illness.^[7]

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