Chika Takai moved from Tokyo to Atlanta as a student, later becoming a dancer and DJ for the Atlanta Hawks. When Megan Thee Stallion’s viral 2024 hit “Mamushi” was released, listeners were surprised ...

Balancing a large drink and a tray of loaded nachos in one hand, I walk up the steep stairs to my seat at the top level of Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. I hear the music before I see her. A bass-heavy ...

Cocona, a member of the J-pop and R&B group XG, has publicly come out as Assigned Female at Birth (AFAB) transmasculine and non-binary in a social media post on their 20th birthday. The singer shared ...

Like a lot of Japanese pop musicians, Haru Nemuri employs synth-generated backing tracks and sings chiefly in Japanese, but with refrains and song titles often in English. “The English language has ...

Tokyo-based rapper and Ambush CEO Verbal disrupted Japanese pop music and launched a global fashion brand and a new saké venture, establishing himself as a cultural curator. Multi-hyphenates rarely ...