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Mana, Közi, and Kaya take Latin America with two live concerts, tea party events

7 August 2024

This September, visual kei icons Mana (Malice Mizer, Moi Dix Mois), Kaya (Schwarz Stein, Femme Fatale, solo), and Közi (Malice Mizer, Eve of Destiny, ZIZ) will headline special events in Santiago, Chile, and Me...

Prepare for Kaya and HIZAKI’s first-ever stage collaboration at Anime Boston 2024

Erica

12 November 2023

Tour and event

Excitement awaits Jrock fans in the northeast United States next spring, as the iconic figures Kaya and HIZAKI grace Anime Boston 2024 with their gothic elegance. Anime Boston, scheduled for March 29-31 in Bost...

Kaya crowdfunds ambitious album “ROSE”

Erica

5 February 2022

Releases

Kaya, an artist who transcends genre and gender, began crowdfunding to produce his first full album in eight and a half years, ROSE. His goal aims just shy of 35,000 USD. In addition to supporting album product...

Kaya covers greatest gothic romantic rock songs

edoh+

31 May 2020

Entertainment

Taking us on a hard trip down memory lane, Kaya has plucked out some of the greatest tracks from the most influential gothic and romantic era bands to cover. Artists say the greatest compliment is to have their...

Most influential Jrockers of 2018

Ziggy

29 December 2018

Entertainment

Each artist has played their part in influencing something or someone, we collected those who we believe made a huge difference for Jrock this year. Amongst these artists, there are those who have changed world...

Visual Aesthetics: Lovely Lolita

xLIZ4

3 July 2018

Entertainment

One of the most important aspects of visual kei artists are the looks. In Visual Aesthetics, we will highlight specific hairstyles, costumes, accessories, makeup, body art and other styles which are either very...

Kaya’s “FABULOUS” single gets us hot under the collar

edoh+

30 March 2018

Releases

Lately, America has been spoilt with the amount of attention from the superstar Kaya, and the train of activities will be going full steam ahead with a brand new two-track single on April 1. The single is aptly...

Kaya coming to Los Angeles and San Francisco this February

Nexus

16 January 2018

Tour and event

Barely a couple months after announcing his participation at conventions in Mexico and the US in May 2018, Kaya is back with more news. On quite a short notice it has been announced that Kaya will visit Califor...

Kaya to appear at RuPaul’s DragCon in Los Angeles in 2018

Nexus

16 November 2017

Tour and event

We have reported just recently that Kaya will be performing at J'Fest in Mexico in May 2018. This time, we bring good news for Kaya fans in the US! Kaya has announced on his website and social media a couple...

Are you ready, Mexico? Come meet Kaya at J’Fest in 2018!

edoh+

15 November 2017

Tour and event

FAKE STAR, USA, in partnership with J’Media, presents Kaya live in concert at J’Fest in Mexico on May 5–6, 2018. J'Fest will be hosted at Expo Reforma in Mexico City and draws in music and fashion culture to...

Top 10 visual kei and Japanese acts of 2016

NBT

30 November 2016

Entertainment

We're back again to greet the upcoming year by looking back at this year's top Japanese acts! We have two lists prepared for you this time around, one consisting of the top 10 visual kei acts and another list w...

Kaya returns as a solo artist with new single “Perfana”

Zansouki

27 August 2016

Releases

As many of you may have known, popular visual kei artist Kaya put his solo career on hold to start a band called Femme Fatale. Unfortunately, the band only lasted about two years, and disbanded in December of l...

Kaya resumes activities as solo artist

Zansouki

23 February 2016

Disband/Hiatus/Revive

Kaya's band, Femme Fatale, gave its last live together a few weeks ago, leaving many fans concerned on Kaya's status as a singer, for he mentioned he was uncertain on his future. Well, today, he dissipates any ...

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