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Bronx born New Yorker Alan Merrill started his professional career in music as a teenager with the RCA Victor recording group The Lead in 1969, Tokyo, Japan. When The Lead broke up, Merrill went solo, recording two albums "Merrill1", and "Alone In Tokyo", in 1970-'71. He became the biggest foreign pop star in Japan's domestic market, hosting his own TV show, acting in soap operas, and being ...more


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