Yukinojō Mori
| Yukinojo Mori | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Masakazu Mori |
| Also known as | Joe Lemon |
| Born |
January 14, 1954 Tokyo, Japan |
| Genres | Pop, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Lyricist, composer, poet |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Website | www |
Masakazu Mori (Japanese: 森 正和?), better known by his stage name Yukinojo Mori (森雪之丞 Mori Yukinojō), is a Japanese lyricist, composer and poet. He has written over 2,000 songs for numerous artists such as Kyosuke Himuro, Takuro Yoshida and Junichi Inagaki and theme songs for anime series including Dragon Ball Z. His younger brother is Hideharu Mori, keyboardist of the rock band Picasso.
Mori attended the English Department of Sophia University before dropping out and making his professional songwriting debut in 1975. His first album, Yukinojo Kenzan (雪之丞見参), was released in 1977.
He contributed a handful of lyrics to the 1989 album Appare by the Sadistic Mika Band, who temporarily reunited that year.
He penned the lyrics to several songs used in Dragon Ball Z, including its opening themes "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and "We Gotta Power" and its second ending theme "Bokutachi wa Tenshi Datta".
Mori was hired by hide of X Japan to pen the lyrics to the first two singles of his solo career, 1993's simultaneously released "Eyes Love You" and "50% & 50%". Twenty years later, the lyricist covered "Eyes Love You" himself together with Hisashi Imai of Buck-Tick for the 2013 hide tribute album Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-.
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