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A pop music artist based in Tokyo, Akimi Morinaga combines City Pop with diverse influences such as MPB (Brazilian music), kayōkyoku (Japanese popular songs), neo-soul, and disco, creating a contemporary sound. His style, which explores fiction and adjacent realities, resembles the works of the self-produced pop artists from Japan’s "New Music" era.
In 2018, he released his first EP “Room of Homage” a six-track project developed over a year. The following year, performing as “Akimi Morinaga & Il Paradiso,” he appeared at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL '19 ROOKIE A GO-GO and Ringo Music Festival 2019, also releasing “Minmin TV”, produced by Takeshi Namura, known for his work with KIRINJI.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Morinaga has focused on creating music from his home studio, including his first solo concert "End Stage Act" in 2022 and a nine-month streak of consecutive singles in 2023. In addition to writing, composing, arranging, and performing his own tracks, he has collaborated on pieces such as “in love. on love.”(arranged by Yukiko Nishii), “When I come home, I'll be nice to you” (arranged by Yuta Ishikawa), and “Akudoi” with singer-songwriter Marlion.
In June 2025, he released his first full-length album, Alfa. The album represents the culmination of his effort to reinterpret and reconstruct the legacy of Japanese New Music through contemporary production methods.The subsequent release tour concluded successfully with three performances.
In February 2026, he followed with Studio Sessions, a studio live recording centered on songs from Alfa, featuring Yoshiro Atsumi (GUIRO), Naruki Numazawa (SAMOEDO), Hirotomo Kauai (Yamafutatsu), and Masaaki Aoki (Suna no Kabe).

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