Enon Kawatani
Kawatani in 2015
Background information
Birth name	川谷健太
Born	(1988-12-03)December 3, 1988 (age 36) Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Origin	Japan
Occupations	Singer songwriter guitarist
Instruments	Vocals guitar
Years active	2009–present

Kenta Kawatani (川谷 健太,Kawatani Kenta, born December 3, 1988^[1]), known by the stage nameEnon Kawatani (川谷 絵音,Kawatani Enon), is aJapanese musician. He is the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the bandsGesu no Kiwami Otome,Indigo la End,Genie High, the instrumental bandIchikoro, and also works as a songwriter for other musicians.

Kawatani grew to like music when he was eight years old, when he heardT.M.Revolution's song "High Pressure" (1997).^[2] He began composing music while he was a university student at theTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. There, he met Masao Wada (currently known as Gesu no Kiwami Otome's bassist Kyūjitsu Kachō) at thelight music club.^[3] In April 2009, Kawatani formed the bandIndigo la End, mostly performing live performances in theShinjuku, Shimokitazawa andShibuya areas of Tokyo.^[4] Indigo la End released their debutextended playSayōnara, Subarashii Sekai in April 2012, through the independent labelSpace Shower Music.

In May 2012, Kawatani asked members of other bands who played at the Shimokitazawa Era live house to form a musical project together, as a fun activity outside of their regular projects, and called this bandGesu no Kiwami Otome.^[5][6] Kawatani continued to release music with Indigo la End, with their second extended playNagisa nite in September 2012 and their first albumYoru ni Mahō o Kakerarete in February 2013. A month after their debut album, Gesu no Kiwami Otome also debuted through Space Shower Music, releasing the extended playDress no Nugikata.^[7]

In December 2013, both of Kawatani's bands were signed toWarner sub-labelUnborde.^[8][9] Both musical units released their major label debut releases on April 2, 2014:Minna Normal for Gesu no Kiwami Otome andAno Machi Record for Indigo la End. In August 2014, Gesu no Kiwami's song "Ryōkiteki na Kiss o Watashi ni Shite" was used as the dramaAround 30-chan: Mushūsei's opening theme song and released as a single.^[10] It reached number four on theBillboardJapan Hot 100 chart,^[11] and was certified gold by theRecording Industry Association of Japan.^[12] The band's debut albumMiryoku ga Sugoi yo (2014) reached number four on Oricon's album charts, and their second,Ryōseibai (2016), reached number one, after several commercially successful singles released in 2015: "Watashi Igai Watashi ja Nai no", "Romance ga Ariamaru" and "Otonatic".^[13]

In 2014, Kawatani composed songs for musicians outside of his two bands for the first time, when he gave the boybandSMAP two songs for their albumMr. S. Kawatani worked with the band again in 2015, on their single "Ai ga Tomaru made wa", and has also worked withTomohisa Yamashita, and the girl groupTeam Syachihoko on their single "Shampoo Hat" (2014).

Kawatani's real name is Kenta,^[14] though he has used the name Enon Kawatani since at least 2011.^[4] In Gesu no Kiwami Otome's early releases, Kawatani used the pseudonym MC.K.^[15]

In January 2016,Shūkan Bunshun magazine reported that Kawatani had gotten married in secret to a non-celebrity woman in mid-2015, and that Kawatani was suspected to be having an affair with television personalityBecky.^[16][17] The article detailed leaked conversations between the pair from the messaging applicationLine.^[18] This led Becky to hold a press conference a day before the issue's release where she apologized for her conduct, and Kawatani to release an apology statement, in which he professed that he and Becky were merely close friends.^[16] In December 2015,Shin-Ei Animation had contacted Kawatani to ask him to write the theme song for the filmCrayon Shin-chan: Fast Asleep! Dreaming World Big Assault! (2016), and for his band Gesu no Kiwami Otome to perform it.^[18] However, after the adultery allegations were published, Shin-Ei rescinded their offer.^[18]

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• 1988 births
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• Japanese alternative rock musicians
• Japanese rock guitarists
• Japanese male singer-songwriters
• Singers from Nagasaki Prefecture
• Warner Music Japan artists
• 21st-century Japanese singers
• 21st-century Japanese guitarists
• 21st-century Japanese male singers
• Japanese male guitarists
• Japanese male rock singers

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