Kayoko Yoshizawa

Kayoko Yoshizawa is a singer-songwriter from Kawaguchi, Saitama, born in 1990. What draws me to artists in her position is the sheer weight of doing all three jobs at once — writing the words, writing the music, and then being the voice that has to sell both. There is nowhere to hide in that arrangement. If the lyric is thin, everyone hears it, because you also chose the melody carrying it. Japanese singer-songwriters in this lane tend to build small, closely observed worlds rather than stadium anthems, and that is a harder commercial road but a more durable artistic one. A song that only a few thousand people need tends to outlive a song that a million people merely tolerate. Our records on her are thin — much of the personal detail is simply not public, and I would rather admit that than invent it. What is clear is the shape of the career: a writer first, a performer second, and someone who has kept an official site and her own channels running on her own terms.

Name (English)

Kayoko Yoshizawa

Name (Japanese)

吉澤嘉代子

Reading

よしざわ かよこ

Born

June 4, 1990 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Horse

Origin

Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

singer-songwriter / singer / composer / lyricist

• Official sitehttp://yoshizawakayoko.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yoshizawakayoko/
• Xhttps://x.com/yoshizawakayoko
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E6%BE%A4%E5%98%89%E4%BB%A3%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18457617

Tags

• Saitama Prefecture
• singer-songwriter
• singer
• composer

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.