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Along with Ryokuoushoku Shakai（緑黄色社会）, Hiroshi Takeshima（竹島宏）appeared on "Uta Con"（うたコン）last night to perform his own recent single, his 29th to be specific, "Santa Maria no Kane" (The Bells of Santa Maria) which hit the shelves in March 2023.
The enka and Mood Kayo singer kinda hovers in that area between his two chosen genres and regular pop music so I guess that he might have that amorphous label of New Adult Music which had attempted to stick onto certain songs in that gray area a few decades ago. Alternately, "Santa Maria no Kane" could be Neo-enka or Neo-Mood Kayo.
In any case, the Fukui Prefecture native sings this rather lush and dramatic ballad about a love lost in Florence, Italy which is pretty far from Japan for a Mood Kayo. Regardless, when I look at that title, I was wondering which church the singer, lyricist Hiroshi Yamada（山田ひろし）, composer Kohei Miyuki（幸耕平）and arranger Masayuki Sakamoto（坂本昌之）had been referring to. According to Wikipedia, there are five religious establishments in Florence which have a connection to that Santa Maria name, so I just went with Florence Cathedral which is known officially as Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. "Santa Maria no Kane" broke the Top 10 by scoring a No. 8.
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