About Kana Nishino
Kana Nishino is a J-pop singer and lyricist from Matsusaka in Mie Prefecture. She was born on March 18th 1989 and was picked from around 40,000 applicants at a Sony Music audition in 2005. Her major debut, ‘I’, followed on February 20th 2008, and her early songs combined pop and R&B with plainspoken lyrics about love and friendship.
Her profile rose sharply in 2010 with ‘Best Friend’ and ‘Aitakute Aitakute’, which went on to pass five million downloads. Her second album, ‘to LOVE’, topped the Oricon chart that year and sold more than 900,000 copies.
Later hits included ‘Darling’, ‘Moshimo Unmei no Hito ga Iru no Nara’, ‘Torisetsu’, and ‘Anata no Suki na Tokoro’, which won the grand prize at the 58th Japan Record Awards in 2016. A year later she became the first female solo singer born in the Heisei era to stage a dome tour, playing two nights each at Kyocera Dome Osaka and Tokyo Dome.
In 2018, the LOVE it Tour hall tour completed her run of one-man concerts in all 47 prefectures. By the end of that year she had appeared on NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen nine years in a row.
Nishino announced an indefinite hiatus in January 2019 and stepped back after Kana Nishino Love Collection Live 2019 at Yokohama Arena that February. She announced her return in June 2024, and ‘EYES ON YOU’ and the ‘Love Again’ EP followed ahead of two sold-out comeback concerts at Yokohama Arena that November.
She made her tenth Kohaku appearance at the end of 2024, and her Fall In Love With You Again Tour 2025 sold out. In 2026, she released ‘Kimi no Sei’, collaborated with NiziU on ‘LOVE BEAT’, issued the ‘Power of Love’ EP, and played her first nationwide hall tour since 2018, the 24-show TOUR 2026 HEART BEAT.
On September 30th 2026, her 18-year exclusive management contract with Sony Music Artists ended, and she began working through her own management company that October. Her music has been released on the SME Records label since her 2008 debut.
