Tsuda Kōji

Tsuda Kōji (津田 耕治) is a Japanese singer-songwriter known for his involvement in modern enka. His first name is sometimes spelled Kōji (耕次).

Biography
Tsuda was born in 1934 in the city of Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture under his real name Sakaida Teruyoshi (坂井田 照義). He graduated from the Gifu Technical High School where he was the leader of an ōendan team. In Osaka, he studied music under the naniwabushi master (1914-1964) and thence became involved in enka. Tsuda's style came to be influenced by Kawachi ondo.

In 1967, he performed the eponymous theme song to the yakuza film written by. After 1970, Tsuda studied the music of Soeda Azenbō and made a number of his own recordings of Azenbō's songs.

Selected works

 * Vicissitudes - A Chivalrous Heart of Tsuda Kōji (流転・A CHIVALROUS HEART OF TSUDA KOJI) (1970, LP, Crown Records GW-6023)
 * Azenbō's World (AZENBOの世界) (1979, LP, Crown Records GWA-33)
 * Lyrical Travelogue of the Enka Life (演歌人生うた紀行) (1997, CD, Crown Records CRCN-48501)