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Kenji Sawada (Kyūjitai: 澤田 研二, Shinjitai: 沢田 研二, Sawada Kenji, June 25, 1948), nicknamed "Julie" (ジュリー Jurii), also-known as a vocalist for Japanese rock band The Tigers, is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor.

As a singer (often he also worked as a songwriter) and actor, Sawada had prospered greatly on Japanese popular culture in last three decades of "Showa era". In the end of 1960s, he succeeded as a lead singer of the band The Tigers. After the breakup of The Tigers and another project PYG, he began his own solo career. As a solo singer, he had sold over 12 million copies singles and reached to the best-selling Japanese male solo music artist in the 1970s and '80s. Around the mid of 1980s, his astonishing popularity declined quickly, but he has kept on working as an artist up 'til now. He has sold at least 15 million copies singles and albums, and at present, he is a thirty-sixth best-selling music artist in Japan. .