Masashi Tashiro
| Masashi Tashiro | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Masashi Tashiro (田代政) |
| Also known as | Marcy |
| Born | August 31, 1956 |
| Origin | Karatsu, Saga |
| Genres | Doo-wop |
| Occupation(s) | television personality, singer, actor, film director |
| Years active | 1980–2001 2002–2004 2008–2010 2015? |
| Associated acts | Rats & Star |
| Website | www.tashiromasashi.com |
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. He also directed a movie after his band broke up.
His arrest for looking up a woman's skirt in September 2000 marked the beginning of Tashiro's problems with the law.
Masashi Tashiro was born in Saga Prefecture on August 31, 1956. His father, a manager of a cabaret chain, ran away with another woman. Subsequently, his parents divorced and he was raised solely by his mother. In 1961, when Tashiro was six years old, he and his mother moved to Tokyo and he entered missionary kindergarten. In 1963, he enrolled at Toyama elementary school in Shinjuku. At age thirteen, while a student at Okubo junior high school, his mother remarried and he chose to enroll in a higher grade at a private high school and live with his father in order not to rely financially on his mother's new husband.
In 1972, he entered Machine Studies at Shibaura Institute of Technology Senior High School after graduating from Nakase junior high school in March of the same year. At Shibaura, he met Masayuki Suzuki. They later formed the band The Chanels. Tashiro and Suzuki were then considered juvenile delinquents.
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