Kiyoshi Maekawa (born August 19, 1948) is a Japanese singer and tarento. He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta". As a frontman of the band, he spawned multiple hit singles such as "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku" during the 1970s.

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  • Kiyoshi Maekawa (born August 19, 1948) is a Japanese singer and tarento. He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta". As a frontman of the band, he spawned multiple hit singles such as "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku" during the 1970s. In 1982, he released the first solo single "Yuki Ressha" composed and produced by Grammy-winning musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, and left the group five years later.  Throughout his solo career, he released a sole top-20 hit "Himawari" in 2002, a ballad Masaharu Fukuyama contributed.   Aside from the recording career, Maekawa has also built up popularity as a TV star, appearing some television shows that comedians such as Kinichi Hagimoto and The Drifters hosted and aired around the latter half of 1970s and the 1980s. He is also known as a former spouse for singer Keiko Fuji, who later married to Teruzane Utada and had a daughter Hikaru.
  • 前川 清(まえかわ きよし、本名同じ、1948年8月19日 - )は演歌、ムード歌謡、バラード歌手である。長崎県佐世保市松山町出身。血液型はO型。長崎南山高等学校中退。長男は歌手の前川紘毅。 
  • 前川 清(まえかわ きよし,1948年8月19日)是日本演歌、情感歌謠和敍事曲歌手。出生于長崎縣佐世保市。長子為歌手前川纮毅。
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  • Kiyoshi Maekawa (born August 19, 1948) is a Japanese singer and tarento. He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta". As a frontman of the band, he spawned multiple hit singles such as "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku" during the 1970s.
  • 前川 清(まえかわ きよし、本名同じ、1948年8月19日 - )は演歌、ムード歌謡、バラード歌手である。長崎県佐世保市松山町出身。血液型はO型。長崎南山高等学校中退。長男は歌手の前川紘毅。 
  • 前川 清(まえかわ きよし,1948年8月19日)是日本演歌、情感歌謠和敍事曲歌手。出生于長崎縣佐世保市。長子為歌手前川纮毅。
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