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Kazumi Yasui
real name 安井 一美 (Yasui Kazumi)
Kazumi Yasui is credited on 1,009 releases across 308 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,009
Credits
308
Albums
7
Decades active
61
In collections
Biography
Kazumi Yasui (安井 かずみ, Yasui Kazumi). Japanese lyricist, translator of poetry and essayist. Nickname ズズ (Zuzu). Wife of Kazuhiko Kato. Born January 12, 1939 in Yokohama; died March 17, 1994, of lung cancer, aged 55.
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Credited work
1,009 releases · 308 albums · active 1964–2025
- Performance · 1,308
- Other credits · 75
- Production · 4
Studios: Hitokuchizaka Studio · Sound City Studio · Sound Inn Studio · Onkio Haus
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR And Boogie 1975-1987
2023

Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR And Boogie 1972-1986
2020

Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-70
2009

Welcome Plastics = ウエルカム・プラスチックス
1980

Love Songs = ラヴ・ソングス
1980

Push
1978

浅川マキの世界
1970

The Girl Can't Help It = 恋せよおとめ
1981

Tokyo Special
1977

International
1975

サマー・ナーヴス = Summer Nerves
1979

Heart To Heart = ハート・トゥ・ハート
1977

にがい涙 = Nigai Namida
1975

花のように 星のように
1973

恍惚の世界
1971

Belle Excentrique
1981

Quatre = キャトル
1979

Spotnicks In Tokyo
1966

Golden Album
1966
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Kazuhiko Katoh
- The Spotnicks
- Kazuhiko Kato
- Pyg (2)
- Yuki Okazaki
- The Tigers (2)
- The Peanuts
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