KAN

Biography

Kan Kimura, known professionally as Kan, was a Japanese singer-songwriter whose chart-topping hit "Ai wa Katsu" (1990) catapulted him to prominence, earning the Japan Record Award and selling over 2 million copies. A prolific artist, he released 33 singles and 15 studio albums by 2010, with four top-ten albums on the Japanese record chart in the 1990s. Kan's success spanned multiple decades before his passing at age 61 from cancer in 2023.