Sadao China

(born 21 April 1945) is a Japanese musician active in the Okinawan music and shima-uta scene, as a performer on the sanshin, min'yō folk singer, song-writer, and producer, having been responsible in 1990 for the formation of the Nēnēs.

Biography China Sadao was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1945, the family moving to Amagasaki in Hyōgo Prefecture in 1951. As a young child, Sadao disliked the nostalgic shima-uta performed by his father and tried to suppress his Okinawan language; he would later recall his embarrassment when his father appeared at an athletics meet with a sanshin and taiko.

Select discography Akabana「赤花」(1978)