Vaundy

Vaundy is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer who writes and arranges his own music, designs artwork and directs music videos. Born in 2000, he began posting songs on YouTube in 2019 while studying design at Nihon University. The mellow R&B of ‘Tokyo Flash’ and the hip-hop-inflected ‘Fukakoryoku’ helped him find an audience online. Spotify named him to its Early Noise 2020 list, and he released his debut album, ‘strobo’, that May.

At his debut on NHK’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 2022, Vaundy performed ‘Kaiju no Hanauta’ from ‘strobo’ and joined milet, Aimer and Lilas Ikuta for ‘Omokage’, which he wrote and produced. ‘Kaiju no Hanauta’ topped the DAM and JOYSOUND annual karaoke charts in 2023 and 2024. In September 2025, it surpassed one billion streams as tracked by Billboard Japan. His 2023 double album ‘replica’ brought together new material and earlier singles, including ‘odoriko’ and ‘CHAINSAW BLOOD’, the first ending theme for Chainsaw Man.

Vaundy wrote ‘Backlight’, performed by Ado in One Piece Film: Red, and directed the video for Masaki Suda’s ‘Madou Ito’, which he also wrote and arranged. His own anime themes include ‘Hadaka no yusha’ for Ranking of Kings and ‘Time Paradox’ for Doraemon: Nobita’s Earth Symphony. In 2026, he wrote the opening and ending themes for the first part of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, singing ‘Tobu Toki’ himself while yama performed ‘Tobou yo’.

Vaundy played his first Nippon Budokan shows in 2022 and embarked on his first nationwide arena tour in 2023. In 2026, he became the youngest male solo artist to headline a four-city dome tour in Japan with SILENCE, which drew about 350,000 people across seven sold-out shows. His first Asian arena tour, HORO, followed later that year with shows in Japan, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Taipei.