Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five(内山田洋とクール・ファイブ,Uchiyamada Hiroshi to Kūru Faibu?) are a Japanese kayōkyoku group, formed by the late Hiroshi Uchiyamada (born Michio Uchiyamada, 1936-2006) in 1967 and fronted by the lead vocalist Kiyoshi Maekawa.
In 1969, the group debuted with the 11th Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyou mo Ame datta". They enjoyed highly successful career mainly during the first half of 1970s, producing numerous hit singles including "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku". They lost popularity after the leaving of a frontman in the late 1980s, and their career went into hiatus after the band lineup was radically altered around the 1990s.
After a founder of the band died of lung cancer in 2006, the remainders including Maekawa reunited.
Kiyoshi Maekawa(前川 清,Maekawa Kiyoshi) (born August 19, 1948(1948-08-19)) is a Japanesesinger and tarento.
He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta". As a frontman of the band, he spawned multiple hit singles such as "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku" during the 1970s. In 1982, he released the first solo single "Yuki Ressha" composed and produced by Grammy-winning musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, and left the group five years later. Throughout his solo career, he released a sole top-20 hit "Himawari" in 2002, a ballad Masaharu Fukuyama contributed.
Aside from the recording career, Maekawa has also built up popularity as a TV star, appearing some television shows that comedians such as Kinichi Hagimoto and The Drifters hosted and aired around the latter half of 1970s and the 1980s.
He is also known as a former spouse for singer Keiko Fuji, who later married to Teruzane Utada and had a daughter Hikaru.