1956 - Today
Masashi Tashiro (田代 まさし, Tashiro Masashi, real name pronounced the same, but written as 田代 政) (born August 31, 1956) is a former Japanese television performer and the founding member of the band Rats & Star. Tashiro was a tenor vocalist for Rats & Star, and later on made himself a name as a TV entertainer in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masashi Tashiro has received more than 98,645 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Masashi Tashiro is the 1,037th most popular singer (up from 1,204th in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 943rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Singer.
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Among singers, Masashi Tashiro ranks 1,037 out of 3,541. Before him are Ayumi Hamasaki, Caterina Caselli, Eva Cassidy, Natacha Atlas, Nick Carter, and Marcel Amont. After him are Birgit Brüel, Aneka, Olga Guillot, Severina, Charlie Daniels, and Roger McGuinn.
1978 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,031
1946 - Present
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 1,032
1963 - 1996
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 1,033
1964 - Present
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 1,034
1980 - Present
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 1,035
1929 - Present
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 1,036
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 1,037
1927 - 1996
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 1,038
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 1,039
1922 - 2010
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 1,040
1972 - Present
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 1,041
1936 - 2020
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 1,042
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 1,043
Among people born in 1956, Masashi Tashiro ranks 216. Before him are José Ramón Alexanko, Dominique Blanc, Azmi Bishara, Kōji Yakusho, Jeremy Wade, and Sergei Sukhoruchenkov. After him are Antonio Muñoz Molina, Sunny Deol, Jerry Hall, Corina Casanova, Franz Tost, and Michael Spinks.
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 210
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 211
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 212
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 213
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 214
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 215
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 216
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 217
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 218
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 219
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 220
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 221
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 222
Among people born in Japan, Masashi Tashiro ranks 1,032 out of 5,560. Before him are Kazuo Saito (1951), Junko Takeuchi (1972), Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Kinue Hitomi (1907), and Kōichi Yamadera (1961). After him are Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Tadanobu Asano (1973), Aguri Suzuki (1960), and Akira Terao (1947).
1951 - Present
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 1,026
1972 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 1,027
1978 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,028
1920 - 2007
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 1,029
1907 - 1931
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 1,030
1961 - Present
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 1,031
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 1,032
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 1,033
1967 - Present
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 1,034
1951 - Present
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 1,035
1973 - Present
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 1,036
1960 - Present
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 1,037
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 1,038
Among singers born in Japan, Masashi Tashiro ranks 8. Before him are Kyu Sakamoto (1941), Mariya Takeuchi (1955), Miyuki Nakajima (1952), Akina Nakamori (1965), Seiko Matsuda (1962), and Ayumi Hamasaki (1978). After him are Yumi Matsutoya (1954), Izumi Sakai (1967), Yoko Kanno (1963), Tetsuya Komuro (1958), Hironobu Kageyama (1961), and Namie Amuro (1977).
1941 - 1985
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 2
1955 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 3
1952 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 4
1965 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 5
1962 - Present
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 6
1978 - Present
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 7
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 8
1954 - Present
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 9
1967 - 2007
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 10
1963 - Present
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 12
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 13
1977 - Present
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 14