[Part TRANS concerning YH and CM] 2010 March Issue Nikkei Entertainment Interview of Kiyoshi Matsuo

Note: KM has worked with many artists including TOHOSHINKI, Exile, JuJu, Chemistry, Ken hirai and etc as a producer/mixer. This interview was included in his recent book, “Mellow Days of Kiyoshi Matsuo” Space Shower Books published on May 2014.

Changmin is a boy that I already knew he has a huge potential to be successful for the moment I first saw him (Changmin was 16 years old back then). Changmin was eager to learn and it was amusing to see him absorbing everything I had taught him. He is serious and his singing voice reflects such personality. When I want to express “pureness” through a TOHOSHINKI’s song, it has to be Changmin.

Yunho’s style is straight tone-singing (singing without vibrato), consequently he takes fewer parts in a melodious song. However, his strong sense of rhythm compensates for that and even overpowers that. Yunho can do the best movement in special hip-hop manners and has the best knowledge about hip-hop music/culture, therefore he tickles heart of people in music industry. The good sense in street culture is also characteristic to Yunho just like YC, but Yunho’s image is more masculine. It is similar to something like.. I write down “Nin-kyo(*1)” but let people read it as “Otoko-gi(*2)”.

Note: both 1 and 2 mean chivalrous spirit but they are in different Chinese characters (Kanji) Nin-kyo 任侠 Otoko-gi男気 =男(man)+気(spirit)

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Credits:

“Mellow Days of Kiyoshi Matsuo”/Nikkei Entertainment
Scans by OWL-TV2XQ, via @snxy
Translated  by @beriko0214
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