GACKT

I'll be honest, GACKT is one of those artists I can't file under any normal label. He came up out of Okinawa as a singer-songwriter and just kept stacking talents on top of each other: vocalist, actor, composer, even voice work, like he got bored of mastering one thing. There's this aura of mystery he wears like a mask, all velvet voice and aristocratic poise, and I used to think it was pure theater. But what wins me over is how stoic and disciplined the guy actually is underneath the glamour. He gets called a narcissist constantly and just flips it into a joke at his own expense, which honestly takes more confidence than the posing does. I respect anyone who can be that extra and that self-aware at the same time. Quietly, I'm a fan.

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GACKT is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor, and composer born on July 4, 1973, in Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture. Known for a wide-ranging entertainment career spanning music and screen performance, he has built a reputation as one of Japan's most distinctive and multifaceted artists. Born Gakuto Oshiro, he runs his own agency, VENUS, and lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Name (English)

GACKT

Name (Japanese)

GACKT

Reading

がくと

Born

July 4, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Singer-songwriter / Singer / Actor / Voice actor / Composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Active years

2022 -

Works summary

Appearances

123 (1999–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1999: 1, 2000: 1, 2001: 7, 2002: 10, 2003: 6, 2004: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 2, 2007: 4, 2008: 1, 2009: 3, 2010: 7, 2011: 4, 2012: 6, 2013: 3, 2014: 8, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 4, 2018: 3, 2019: 5, 2020: 3, 2022: 1, 2023: 5, 2024: 4, 2025: 4, 2026: 3, year unknown: 17

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.gackt.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/gackt/
• Xhttps://x.com/GACKT
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/GACKT
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44606

Tags

• from Okinawa Prefecture
• singer-songwriter
• singer
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.