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TheGospellers (ゴスペラーズ) are a Japanesea cappella vocal group made up of Tetsuya Murakami, Kaoru Kurosawa, Yuji Sakai, Yoichi Kitayama and Yutaka Yasuoka.
Originally formed by Murakami and Kurosawa (along with 4 other members) in 1991 as a group within a college chorus club "Street Corner Symphony" at theUniversity of Waseda, they recruited 3 new members in order to fill the vacancy (4 members previously left the group due to their job placement activities) for the recording ofThe Gospellers, their first major label release in 1994. They spent the next 6 years working towards national recognition, releasing 13 singles and 5 albums, until they finally came up with a hit single "Towa ni", which stayed in theOricon chart ranking for 44 consecutive weeks in 2000 and 2001. They became the first a cappella group to be in the top 3 of the chart in Japan with their 16th single, "Hitori".
In early 2006, the group made a side-project release,Gosperats, which featured the members inblackface and singing with more soul and jazz-like accompaniment, withRats & Star membersMasayuki Suzuki,Nobuyoshi Kuwano andYoshio Sato, who originally, along with such a style, established the popularity ofR&B andDoo-wop in the 1980s in Japan.[1]
In the first edition of the Japanese ice showFantasy on Ice in 2010, the Gospellers made an appearance as guest artists. They performed together with formerfigure skater and figure skating commentator,Junko Yaginuma, to the song "1, 2, 3 for 5" amongst others.[2]: 52
Their single "Sky High" was used as the opening theme for the animeNodame Cantabile: Paris.
The image song for the Japanese version ofThe Wild is called "Prisoner of Love" by the band.[3][4][5]
^Makabe, Kikuo (February 2021).志 ～アイスショーに賭ける夢～ [Aspiration ～Dream to bet on an ice show～] (in Japanese).Bunkyo, Tokyo:Shinshokan (published February 1, 2021). p. 208.ISBN978-4403231278.
