Shigeru Izumiya (泉谷しげる)

1948年5月11日　青森県生まれ、３歳より東京都目黒区で育つ。 1971年　エレックレコードよりフォーク歌手として、アルバム『泉谷しげる登場』でデビュー。 1975年　吉田拓郎、井上陽水、小室等と「フォーライフレコード」設立。 1979年、テレビ朝日系ドラマ「戦後最大の誘拐・吉展ちゃん事件」でテレビ大賞及び芸術祭優秀賞を受賞し、俳優としても一躍脚光を浴びる。 1980年　映画「狂い咲きサンダーロード」で美術と音楽を担当、ブルーリボン美術デザイン賞を受賞。 以降、TBS系ドラマ「金曜日の妻たちへ」・CX系「Dr.コトー診療所」・TX系「三匹のおっさん」シリーズなど、数々のヒット作品に出演。 ミュージシャンとしては、1994年の北海道奥尻島救済キャンペーン「一人フォークゲリラ」や雲仙普賢岳噴火災害救済チャリティコンサート、阪神淡路大震災救済の為に再び街頭で「フォークゲリラ」を決行。東日本大震災ではチャリティーライブ他、大友克洋、浦沢直樹と共に漫画家有志でマンガサミットチャリティーオークションを行い義援金をiPadなどの物資に換えの直接被災地に出向き支援活動を展開。 2015年より、熊本県阿蘇の地域活性を目的とした「阿蘇ロックフェスティバル」の発起人となり開催。 2017年　69歳の誕生日に、45年のアーカイブ音源とニューアルバム、CD10枚と、これまでの写真や作品を集めたアートブック・歌詞集をセットにしたBOX『泉谷しげるの新世界 アート オブ ライブ』をユーキャンから発表。 2021年10月　第５回「阿蘇ロックフェスティバル」を初の２日間開催。コロナ禍、阿蘇山噴火、天候の３つの困難を乗り越え、奇跡的な大成功に終わる。 2022年　9月「北九州ロックフェスティバル2022～with SDGs spirit」の発起人となり開催。 Born on May 11, 1948 in Aomori Prefecture, he grew up in Meguro Ward, Tokyo from the age of three. In 1971, he made his debut as a folk singer with the album "Izumiya Shigeru Appears" on Elec Records. In 1975, he founded For Life Records with Takuro Yoshida, Yosui Inoue, and Hitoshi Komuro. In 1979, he won the TV Grand Prize and the Arts Festival Excellence Award for his role in the TV Asahi drama "The Yoshinobu-chan Case: The Biggest Kidnapping of the Postwar Period," catapulting him into the spotlight as an actor. In 1980, he was responsible for the art and music for the film "Crazy Thunder Road," for which he won the Blue Ribbon Art Design Award. Since then, he has appeared in numerous hit works, including the TBS drama "Friday's Wives," CX's "Dr. Koto's Clinic," and TX's "Three Old Men" series. As a musician, he has participated in the 1994 "One-Man Folk Guerrilla" relief campaign for Hokkaido's Okushiri Island, a charity concert for relief efforts following the Mount Unzen eruption, and again in a street "Folk Guerrilla" campaign for relief efforts following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. In addition to a charity concert following the Great East Japan Earthquake, he also held a Manga Summit charity auction with a group of volunteer manga artists, including Katsuhiro Otomo and Naoki Urasawa, where donations were converted into iPads and other items, and he traveled directly to the disaster-stricken areas to provide relief. Since 2015, he has been the founder and organizer of the "Aso Rock Festival," aimed at revitalizing the Aso area of Kumamoto Prefecture. In 2017, on his 69th birthday, U-CAN released a box set titled "Shigeru Izumiya's New World: Art of Live," featuring 45 years of archived recordings, a new album, 10 CDs, an art book featuring his past photographs and works, and a lyric book. In October 2021, the 5th "Aso Rock Festival" was held for the first time over two days. Overcoming three obstacles - the COVID-19 pandemic, the eruption of Mount Aso, and weather - the event was a miraculous success. In September 2022, he organized and held the "Kitakyushu Rock Festival 2022 - with SDGs spirit."