Fujii Kaze
Japanese singer-songwriter known for viral hits and chart-topping albums.
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Fujii Kaze is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician who began uploading piano covers to YouTube at age 12 and later signed to Universal Sigma's Hehn Records. His debut single "Nan-Nan" arrived in 2019, and his first studio album, Help Ever Hurt Never (2020), hit number one on Billboard Japan's Hot Albums chart and earned a gold certification in Japan. The song "Shinunoga E-Wa" went viral on social media, bringing him fame beyond Japan.
His second album, Love All Serve All (2022), topped both Billboard Japan and Oricon album charts and was certified platinum. In 2023–2024, he released standalone singles like "Workin' Hard," "Hana," and "Michiteyuku" and toured outside Japan. His first English-language album, Prema, came out on September 5, 2025.
Biography
Fujii Kaze was born in 1997 in Satoshō, Okayama, Japan, and grew up with one older brother and two older sisters. As a child, he listened to jazz, classical, pop, and enka. Starting at age 12, he uploaded piano and vocal covers to his personal YouTube channel, amassing over 30 million views. He stopped uploading during high school to focus on music studies, then returned after graduating.
In early 2019, he moved to Tokyo. His debut single "Nan-Nan" came out on November 18, 2019, followed by "Mo-Eh-Wa" on December 24. In January 2020, Spotify named him one of its Early Noise 2020 Top 10 Breaking Artists. His Nan-Nan Show 2020 performances at Zepp Namba and Zepp Tokyo were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He released his first album Help Ever Hurt Never on May 20, 2020, which reached number one on the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart. He announced a 12-show national hall tour across 11 cities from December 25, 2020, to January 31, 2021. In August 2020, he became the first Japanese person named YouTube's Artist on the Rise. After his Budokan show, he released "Hedemo Ne-Yo" and "Seishun Sick" on October 30.
In January 2021, "Tabiji" aired as the theme for TV drama Nijiiro Carte and was digitally released as his 7th single on March 1, when he performed it live on Houdo Station for his first TV appearance. The single hit number one on the Oricon Weekly Digital Single Ranking on March 10. On March 23, Help Ever Hurt Never won the Grand Prize Blue at the 13th CD Shop Awards.
Did You Know?
- His song "Kirari" surpassed 100 million streams in August 2021 and 300 million streams in June 2022.
- He performed "Kirari" pre-recorded at his parents' home in Okayama for his first NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen appearance on December 31, 2021.
- The song "Shinunoga E-Wa" went viral on TikTok in July 2022, reaching number 4 on Spotify's Global Viral chart and number 118 on the US Billboard Global 200.
- His stadium show "Love All Serve All Stadium Live" at Panasonic Stadium Suita in Osaka attracted 70,000 people over two days in October 2022.
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