fumiya fujii

Fumiya Fujii entered the world on July 11, 1962, in Kurume City, Fukuoka. He assembled the Checkers together with vocalists Yoshihiko Takamoku and Masaharu Tsuruku, sax player Naoyuki Fujii, guitarist Tohru Takeuchi, bassist Yuji Ohdoi, and drummer Yoshiya Tokunaga. As the group’s longtime frontman, Fujii steered the band across 13 albums spanning the 1980s and ’90s before launching his solo career in 1994, which achieved equivalent commercial reach. Three further releases subsequently appeared on the Pony Canyon label: R&R, Tears, and Standard.