Ricardo Cruz

Ricardo Cruz is genuinely one of those people who makes you do a double-take — a Brazilian singer-songwriter who carved out a real place in the world of Japanese anime music, which is about as niche-crossing as it gets. He's been a semi-regular with JAM Project, the powerhouse anison group behind some of the most face-melting anime openings ever made, and he's been touring with them in Latin America since at least 2005. That Brazil-to-Japan pipeline he built is no small feat; JAM Project doesn't hand out guest spots lightly. Add in his journalism and translation work and you get someone who clearly treats language itself as his instrument, whether it's a melody, an article, or a text moving between cultures. A fascinating triple-threat that most people haven't heard of yet.

Name (English)

Ricardo Cruz

Name (Japanese)

ヒカルド・クルーズ

Reading

ひかるど・くるーず

Born

January 12, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dog

Origin

Brazil, United States

Occupation

singer / journalist / translator

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.ricacruz.wordpress.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ricardosbcruz/
• Xhttps://x.com/ricacruz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA

Tags

• singer
• journalist
• translator

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.