Figure 1.--Tomokazu Murakami is pictured here practicing the piano. Short pants were the typical outfit for many Japanese boys in the 1980s.

Tomokazu Murakami was a Japanese boy soparano singer. We have been unable to find much informtioin about him. He isn't well-known now because boy soparanoa are not especially popular in Japan and he performed in the late-1980s and early-90s. Hopefully our Japanese reades will kniow about him.

Biography

Tomokazu Murakami was born in 1979 in Otaru, Hokkaido in Japan. 1985, He entered the primary school "Hanazono". In this school he was interested in singing. He won the grand prize in the contest of singing Douyou in 1987. He sang Let's to turn our hands to the sun. He won the grand prize for the second straight year in 1988. He sang I could find out the small autumn. He won the second prize in the contest of the music contest sponsored by the Mainichi newspaper industry in 1989. He sang Ave Maria.

Clothes

Tomokazu wore ordinary boys clothes for his practice sessions. Commonly short pants and a variety of shirts. His pratice clothes could be quite fancy. The outfit here is a frilly back buttoning blouse worn with satin-finish trousers.

Figure 2.--Tomokazu Murakami is pictured here in one of his performance costumes. He wears a rather frilly blouse with satin trousers.