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Kenshi Yonezu

    Kenshi Yonezu is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator who began releasing  music under the stage name "Hachi" in 2009. In 2012 he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. They sold 3.6 million physical copies and more than 7 million digital copies in Japan. Kenshi Yonezu was born on March 10, 1991, in the rural part of Tokushima, Japan. As a child, Yonezu found it difficult to communicate with other people, especially his father. Yonezu felt that his mother understood him.

    He worked as the vocalist, songwriter and occasional guitarist, while Nakajima was the guitarist. In late 2007, he set up a website for the band, posting song lyrics and short novels. Yonezu wrote songs for the band, and between April 2008 and March 2009 uploaded 24 original songs to video sharing website Nico Nico Douga using the name Hachi. All the songs only get a few views with the greatest, "Beelzebub," receiving only 23,000 views. 

Yonezu moved to Osaka after high school and started attending a fine arts school. While studying there, he started uploading songs using Vocaloid software which were increasingly popular. His 2009 song "Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro"  was his first song to receive over 1,000,000 views on the site. 

In December 2009, Yonezu's song "Clock Lock Works" was featured on an Exit Tunes compilation album, Supernova, the first time a song of his appeared on an album. 

In April 2010, Yonezu joined the animation collective Minakata Kenkyūjo , a group that he had worked with since his "Clock Lock Works" video in November 2009. On January 23, 2011, Yonezu uploaded his final Hachi Vocaloid video for approximately three years.

In March 2011, Yonezu and seven other musicians created Balloom, an independent music label for Internet musicians to widen their musical opportunities. His debut album released in 2012, Diorama, debuted at number 6 and sold over 45,000 copies, becoming the biggest release on the label to date.

On October 28, 2013, Kenshi Yonezu released his second album, Yankee, on April 23, 2014, followed by the first concert in his career on June 27. Yonezu's song "Eine Kleine" was written for Tokyo Metro to be used in its 2014 commercial campaign.

Yonezu continued to rise in popularity with the release of albums Bremen in 2015 and Bootleg in 2017. Driven by hit singles "Uchiage Hanabi", "Loser," "Orion," and "Peace Sign," Bootleg won Album of the Year at the 60th Japan Record Awards and shot Yonezu to national stardom.

  On December 31, 2018, Yonezu made his live television debut on the 69th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen, the annual year-end extravaganza and one of Japan's most prestigious music programs. He performed his 2018 hit Lemon live from his native Tokushima, marking the first time a segment of the Kōhaku Uta Gassen was broadcast from Tokushima Prefecture. The songs Uchiage Hanabi and Paprika, both produced by Yonezu, were also performed at the event.

In 2019, Yonezu wrote the song "Machigai Sagashi" for singer Masaki Suda; it won Best Pop Video at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards Japan. When Billboard Japan published its year-end charts, "Uma to Shika" and "Machigaisagashi" ranked fifth and sixth respectively.

On August 7, 2020, he performed during Fortnite's Party Royale, singing songs from his latest album Stray Sheep (2020), which had been released two days prior. Yonezu began to feel that he did not work well with other people, and decided to work alone on Vocaloid songs exclusively, giving up on being a part of a band

Kenshi Yonezu Most Famous Songs :

- Lemon

- Peace Sign

- Orion

- Uchiage Hanabi

- Loser

- Flamingo

One of his most famous song "Lemon"

Source : 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenshi_Yonezu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6bPNenFSO0