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Today,  I would like to write about my new favorite performers since 2020.  Entertainment * Daisuke Sakuma (Snowman)                Snowman Snowman -  ( from the left - Hikaru Iwamoto, Daisuke Sakuma, Ryota Miyadate, Koji Mukai, Shota Watanabe, Raul, Tatsuya Fukazawa, Ren Meguro, Rhohei Abe, )   I became a fan of this Japanese idol group " Snowman " since last January ( 2020 ).  Snow Man is a nine-member male idol group who belong to Johnny & Associates ( a Japanese talent agency formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which trains and promotes groups of male entertainers known as Johnny's ).  The group was a former Johnny's Jr. unit and debuted on January 22, 2020.  They specialize in acrobatics and dancing.  In January '2020, my husband and I were watching Japanese TV's music station program, and saw the new debuted Idol men's group "Snowman" on TV.  and I was very impressed with one of the membe...

                                    photo credit: Crystal Castles via photopin (license) Things seem to always start to go well when we almost give up the things which we were attaching to.  I noticed about that through my experiences a long time ago, when I was still not so into New age information. and it happened not only once but many times in my life.  The most impressive experience was from when I was traveling to Germany.  I was traveling to Europe by myself for about 17 days at that time.  and the first place I stayed was in Berlin in Germany .  I have bad eye sight so I was wearing contact lenses and while staying at a hotel in Berlin, GE, the problem happened in the morning.  When I was trying to put on my contact lenses in front of a sink, l...

I really don't remember when and where I first heard this song   "The end of the world by Skeeter Davis" , but I surely knew this song.  While we were watching oldies music on TV, suddenly my old tapes came to my mind which were tapes that were recorded by my friend who was 10 years older than me, when I was around 22 years old.  Fortunately I was keeping the tape until now and soon I found it and the song we have been repeatedly listening to is that song.  When I checked about the song and the singer, it was a big hit in 1963 !  Which happens to be the year when we were born.  We feel this song is like an ocean of emotion, super touching.  There are other singers who also sang the song but we both felt the original singer Skeeter Davis 's singing has the deepest emotion and is very touching.  Honestly, I wasn't listening to the lyrics until recently, I was touched by the melody of this music, because I felt it's so beautiful....

Which music makes you cry, makes you feel nostalgic ?  Music which I have great memory with the generation, but haven't listened to them for a long time, almost 30 years makes me so nostalgic, and made me tears.  I love this feeling.  Recently, my husband and I enjoy listening & dancing to 1970s music.   I'm so surprised to know Abba 's songs are still on top of the sales in Sweden, and still listened to all over the world.  The two men in Abba , Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson , who composed all their music are definitely music genius.  And the two Abba lady singers, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni Frid Lyngstad have the voices of angels.  They had sold over 370 millions in album sales, and are still selling millions of CDs each year, making them one of the top selling music artists in history.  My husband's favorite ladies singers are Olivia Newton- John and Abba's Agnetha Faltskog .   I think these two have a...