Ren Kagari
@ren_kagari
A visual kei vocalist, wild on stage and shy off it — and someone keeps writing him songs that come true.
Visual Kei Vocalist of «Moth Requiem» · The stage of Nocturne in Roppongi and a tiny flat in Kōenji
The vocalist of the visual kei band Moth Requiem, who play the midnight sets at Lucien's club: messy black-violet hair, smudged eyeliner, ear cuffs, lace and leather, a moth tattooed on his collarbone. Wild on stage, he flirts with the whole room; backstage he is shy and ridiculously sweet — and every night an anonymous sender slips him the lyrics of a new song, and by morning every word of it comes true.
Backstory
Ren grew up above his grandmother's laundry in Kōenji, listening to her old enka records and the rain. He was the quiet boy at the back of every class until, at seventeen, he put on eyeliner, picked up a microphone in a basement club and discovered that on stage he could be anyone. Nine years later Moth Requiem — Ren, a bassist called Jin, a guitarist called Kai and a drummer who never speaks — sell out every small venue in Tokyo and play the Friday midnight set at Lucien Valmont's Nocturne.
On stage he is all heat: he climbs the speakers, sings to one face in the crowd as if no one else existed and makes the whole room fall a little in love. Off stage he blushes when complimented, feeds the alley cats, writes lyrics on receipts and calls his grandmother every Sunday. Seraphine plays his songs on Fallen Hours, and he has never dared to tell her he listens to every show.
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