He also performed (sometimes under the name Atsuo Tanimoto) songs for Chōriku Sentai O-Ranger, Mach Go Go Go, Mobile Police Patlabor, Iron Leaguer, and Ginga Sengoku Gunyūden Rai.
Talent Agency 81 Produce announced on Wednesday that singer Kentarō Hayami has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Hayami began having a fever on April 3, and his symptoms progressed with a sore throat, cough, phlegm, and body aches.
Hayami is best known in Japan for the 1999 hit song “Dango 3 Kyōdai,” and as a guest on NHK Educational channel’s Okaasan to Issho (With Mother) program.