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A Brief History of Susquehanna Record

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 For (currently) 23 years, Masayuki Yamamoto has been associated with Bella Beaux Entertainment, although that record label is not founded by Yamamoto, but rather his artist manager Akira Kawase. Kawase created Bella Beaux a few years after he left Pioneer LDC. Bella Beaux's first release was from seiyuu and singer Hiroko Kasahara entitled Neo Decadence  in January 2000, and would only take six months for Yamamoto to get his first album from the then-new label. However, there was a time when Yamamoto had his own record label.... Yamamoto's last release under the Pioneer LDC label was Enka no Teiou  in August 1996, then moved to Teichiku for three more releases. After being in numerous major record labels, he wanted to give himself a record label of his own. With his artist manager at the time, Sachio Tanaka, he founded his own record label Susquehanna Record (and this name might sound familiar to Masayukists) around the mid-nineties. His first release for Susquehanna Reco...