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Kalen Anzai

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Kalen Anzai
in 2023
in 2023
Background information
Born (1999-08-15) 15 August 1999 (age 24)
Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Genres
  • Pop
  • Dance-pop
  • Electronica

Kalen Anzai (安やす斉ひとしかれん, Anzai Karen, born 15 August 1999) is a Japanese pop singer, songwriter, actress and musician. She is from Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Her record company and management is avex trax.[1]

Biography

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Early days

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When Kalen was in elementary school, she admired an electone player and started playing the electone. Around the time she entered junior high school, her father took her to a live performance of The Rolling Stones, and he started listening to rock music . Admiring the saxophone performance, she joined the brass band when she was a junior high school student and started playing the alto saxophone . Originally she wanted to play jazz.[2] In the third year of junior high school, she was so enthusiastic about the brass band that she won a gold prize (no money) at the Shonan district brass band competition and a gold prize at the ensemble contest. Anzai was a practice addicted who came to class first thing in the morning and silently practiced individually. Her time in the brass band club was "youth", and she said that it was "the most enjoyable memory".[3][4]

2019: Debut trilogy

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In April 2019, M.A.C JAPAN, who knew her through RELECT, requested her to be the first female artist to serve as a model for the storefront collection visuals of the cosmetic brand M.A.C for three consecutive months.[5]

She debuted with her song 世界せかいの全すべて敵てきに感かんじて孤独こどくさえ愛あいしていた (Sekai no subete teki ni kanjite kodoku sae itoshite ita).[6]

On February 29, 2020, she was selected to star in a drama series based on the novel M_愛あいすべき人ひとがいて (M: Beloved Someone), written by Narumi Komatsu based on legendary J-pop star Ayumi Hamasaki early life confessions, which was broadcast from April of the same year it was announced. She had a starring role with Shohei Miura, and this is Anzai's first time trying full-scale acting. This drama appearance wasn't by an audition, but an office staff suggestion. Since Anzai never thought she would be acting, she took acting lessons for about half a year after the lead role was decided.[1]

She was later first recognized by the gyaru style from her song 'GAL-TRAP'. She did not recognize herself as a gyaru or even what is now called pos-gyaru; this is a term for gyaru that are still participating post Heisei era.[7] She is currently producing music.

Discography

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Albums

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  • ANTI HEROINE
  • 僕ぼくらはきっと偽いつわりだらけの世界せかいで強つよくなる。 (We will surely become stronger in a world full of lies. )

References

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  1. ^ a b "あゆ役やくに"謎なぞの新人しんじん歌手かしゅ"安やす斉ひとしかれんを抜ばってき 演技えんぎ初はつ挑戦ちょうせん、デビュー以来いらいメディアに露出ろしゅつなし - スポニチ Sponichi Annex 芸能げいのう". スポニチ Sponichi Annex.
  2. ^ "話題わだいの歌姫うたひめ・安やす斉ひとしかれんが「ポスギャル」といわれる理由りゆう - 写真しゃしん・大内おおうち香織かおり 取材しゅざい、文ぶん・かわむらあみり". ananweb - マガジンハウス.
  3. ^ "安やす斉ひとしかれんの「青春せいしゅんよみがえりソング」はユーミンの名曲めいきょく 吹奏楽すいそうがく部ぶ時代じだいを振ふり返かえる".
  4. ^ "1999年ねん生うまれの安やす斉ひとしかれんが語かたるJ-POPとロックンロール | Rolling Stone Japan(ローリングストーン ジャパン）". Rolling Stone Japan. 20 August 2020.
  5. ^ "安やす斉ひとしかれん、コスメティックブランド『M·A·C』の店頭てんとうビジュアルに決定けってい | OKMusic". okmusic.jp. 19 April 2019.
  6. ^ Japan, Arama! (11 May 2019). "Kalen Anzai debuts with classic J-Pop sound on "Sekai no Subete Teki ni Kanjite Kodoku sae Aishiteita"". ARAMA! JAPAN. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  7. ^ "安やす斉ひとしかれんが仕掛しかける罠わな「ギャルになりたい！って思おもったことはない」". KAI-YOU.net | POP is Here . (in Japanese). 18 September 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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