Born on 20 May 1970 in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Ryuichi Kawamura is a multi-talented singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality whose career spans nearly four decades. He gained notoriety as the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band Luna Sea who formed in 1986 and have been together, on and off, ever since. He branched out into solo stardom in 1997, three years before the first Luna Sea break-up, and soared to the top of Japan's Oricon chart with his debut LP Love, which became one of the best-selling male solo albums in Japanese music history. He clung to the upper echelons of the Japanese charts with 2001 follow-up Shinai ~Only One~ and his first international tour came the following year. He ventured into the realm of cover songs with the release of Evergreen ~Anata no Wasuremono~ in 2006, which comprised his takes on artists such as Yutaka Ozaki and Akiko Kobayashi. During the 2010s and 2020s, he continued to add to the Japanese rock and pop music canon with a string of Top 20 albums, from 2013's Life and 2015's Magic Hour to 2021's Beautiful Lie.