Masafumi Akikawa

Masafumi Akikawa is a Japanese tenor singer. He has released a number of CDs, in which he has sung a broad range of genres, from classical to pop. He appeared on the 57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen broadcast.

Biography

His single Sen no Kaze ni Natte made it to No.1 on 22 January 2007 Oricon Singles Weekly Ranking following his appearance on Uta Gassen. Based on the poem Do not stand at my grave and weep, the single has since sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Japan. The Korean version was used as a requiem for the victims of the MV Sewol, a passenger ferry that capsized and sank with the loss of 304 lives in 2014.