LiSA

LiSA is a Japanese singer from Gifu who first reached a national audience in 2010, when she was selected to perform the singing parts for Yui, the second vocalist of fictional band Girls Dead Monster in the anime Angel Beats!. After releasing music and touring as Girls Dead Monster starring LiSA, she made her solo debut on April 20th 2011 with the mini-album ‘Letters to U’. Her first single, ‘oath sign’, followed that November as the opening theme for Fate/Zero, while 2012’s ‘crossing field’ became the opening theme for Sword Art Online. Her live career developed alongside those anime releases, with her ‘LiVE is Smile Always’ series going from Shibuya O-EAST in 2011 to venues including Nippon Budokan, Makuhari Messe, and Yokohama Arena, while LiSA also became a regular presence at rock festivals including ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL, RADIO CRAZY, and SUMMER SONIC.

In 2019, ‘Gurenge’, the opening theme for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, became a long-running commercial hit, and LiSA made her first appearance at NHK’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen that December. In July 2020, ‘Gurenge’ became the first track by a female artist to exceed one million downloads on Oricon’s digital singles ranking. That October, ‘Homura’, the theme for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, and her fifth original album ‘LEO-NiNE’ simultaneously debuted at number one on Oricon’s weekly single and album charts. ‘Homura’ went on to win the Japan Record Award at the 62nd Japan Record Awards in December 2020.

LiSA returned to Demon Slayer in 2021 with ‘Akeboshi’, the opening theme for the television version of the Mugen Train Arc, before recording ‘REALiZE’ for the Japanese dub of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in 2023. Her 2024 releases included ‘Shouted Serenade’ for the third season of The Irregular at Magic High School, ‘Black Box’ for the second cour of NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, and ‘QUEEN’ for the first cour of Shangri-La Frontier season two. In 2025, ‘ReawakeR’, featuring Felix of Stray Kids, opened Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-, while Yuki Kajiura wrote, composed, and arranged ‘Zankoku na Yoru ni Kagayake’, one of the two theme songs for the first Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle film. The same year, LiSA played her first North American headline tour, with five shows across New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.

LiSA marked 15 years since her solo debut in 2026 with seventh original album ‘LACE UP’, released on 15 April. Her anniversary programme has included the six-date ‘LiVE is Smile Always ~15~’ arena tour in Japan, followed by shows in Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Seoul, and her first Europe and UK tour, with dates in Milan, Düsseldorf, Paris, and London. A nationwide Japanese tour under the ‘LiVE is Smile Always ~LACE UP~’ name begins in October 2026 and runs through January 2027.