Once again, this is one of those singers whose information is sparse and thrown all over the Internet (for instance, there is nothing of him on the JASRAC database). Tomohiro Kaifuku（海福知弘）is a singer who has been compared to funkster Yasuyuki Okamura（岡村靖幸）, and seemed to have been most active in the early 1990s with at least one single and only two albums.
Well, that one single I found is the subject of this article "Kiss ga Todokanai" (Your Kisses Don't Reach Me) which was released in 1992. The song hits me as being particularly silky sophisticated synthesized pop funk of the era. As well, there is nice and sexy sighing by the backup singers and the arranger even threw in some synths masquerading as French horns. As for Kaifuku himself, he reminds me of a slightly breathier and more frenetic Bryan Ferry. "Kiss ga Todokanai" was also a track on his second and final album to date "Love Chic" also from 1992.
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