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also wrote the bulk of the lyrics for "Eating
Pleasure". At this point Makoto also wound up the Sunset Gang and Sandii & The Sunsetz were born. The two groups had the same members, but Sandii became lead vocalist. The collaboration with Mosdell would go on to produce some of the band's biggest
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Sandii met Makoto Kubota in 1976, when he was a guest on her NHK TV show and afterward joined his band Yuyake
Gakudan ("Sunset Gang") as a backup singer. Makoto was an accomplished musician with broad influences and the collaboration went on to be critically acclaimed, though never quite achieving
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the popular success expected. The music of The Sunset Gang was very influenced by blues, Southern and West Coast rock, but later they became increasingly interested in
Hawaiian and Okinawan music. At this time Sandii also became friends with the future members of the
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TV in Japan. Sandii performed during the interval of the "World
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at this time.) After becoming accomplished as a singer and dancer, Sandii released her first record "Perusha Neko" under the name Sandi Ai in 1974. Returning to Japan in 1975 she was befriended by
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naming her "Sandii" because of the connection with Hawaii. However, until 1980 Sandii used a variety of names for different session work e.g. "Sandra Hohn", "Sandi A. Hohn", even "Sandy Ayako".
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