Singer Luz to hold comeback concert

[RussianRoulette]

I actually have some Jpop news today.
I'm going to start this story from the beginning because I believe the context is very much needed here.

Luz is a "Utaite" singer who started out just singing song covers on Nico Nico Douga/youtube and grew into becoming a professional singer. He started posting his song covers in 2010 at the age of 17 and has been singer for almost 14 years.

(I also don't now if this is relevant but I wanted to include this anyway. Luz is mixed, his father is Japanese and his mother is German and Filipino and from America. I know half/mixed Japanese people get a harder time in the industry so I wanted to bring this up.)

Back in January Luz announced that he would be "going on hiatus due to health/mental health matters".

This was a complete lie. Reports very quickly hit the news that Luz was arrested due to drug possession.

His company/label was very quick to drop him and removed all of his music off of streaming services and a lot of music was removed from youtube.

For almost 10 years Luz was the singer for the music group Royal Scandal.

The producer for the group, Kanon69, released a statement saying how betrayed he felt by Luz and the group would now be continuing as 2 people (Kanon69 and Rahwia who is their illustrator). All of their music will now be sung by guest singers and they have currently been working on re-releasing all of their music with new singers.

Other "utaite" he has been friends with have all released various comments on this. Some people released some neutral statements, such as MafuMafu. Others, such as Meychan, criticized him.

Along with Royal Scandal, Mafumafu, Meychan, Nqrse, and may other singers have all said they would no longer be working with him.

This morning This Video was released on Luz's channel

There was a livestream which I missed and it was not saved to his channel. According to Japanese twitter Luz was dressed in a suit and apologized for his scandal.
Based on comments it appears he was released from prison recently?

He released a new personal website.

He will also be holding a comeback concert "REBORN" on December 29th in Shinagawa.

Tickets are 17600 yen (around $115) for VIP or 8800 (around $58) yen for regular tickets.

There seems to be mixed reactions online regarding his quick return to the industry.​

 

[adonisinoda]

Do you know if it's possible for his music to ever be put back up on Spotify, or any of the other platforms it was removed from? Or if his old songs will appear on a new account with his reappearance? Also, thank you so much for all of this information! Luz has always been one of my favorites, and I've listened to him for years, so I was really sad to see him get arrested and to not be able to listen to his music. Knowing what is going on is very helpful, thank you.

 

[RussianRoulette]

Do you know if it's possible for his music to ever be put back up on Spotify, or any of the other platforms it was removed from? Or if his old songs will appear on a new account with his reappearance? Also, thank you so much for all of this information! Luz has always been one of my favorites, and I've listened to him for years, so I was really sad to see him get arrested and to not be able to listen to his music. Knowing what is going on is very helpful, thank you.

Some of his old stuff might be on Nico Nico Douga? Though it’s been AGES since I’ve checked that site.

To be honest there’s a 0% chance his music will ever return. His (now former) company I’m assuming owned the rights to all of that music and they were the ones who took it down, not Luz himself. He burned a LOT of bridges through all of this and he’s being shunned.

The fact that he’s even trying to make a comeback (and without a formal apology to my knowledge?) is even pretty audacious of him.

*edit* well I guess that livestream was the apology, but it’s still low-key kind of shitty of him to have his only apology be in a not-saved livestream. He should have either recorded it as a video and kept the video up on his channel, or at the very least post an apology letter online.

Words cannot describe how back-stabbed some of his former friends felt, especially Kanon69 since his scandal truly screwed over the group. I’ve never seen another Japanese celebrity not have their apology video permanently uploaded, so I have no idea what he’s thinking.

 

[adonisinoda]

Some of his old stuff might be on Nico Nico Douga? Though it’s been AGES since I’ve checked that site.

To be honest there’s a 0% chance his music will ever return. His (now former) company I’m assuming owned the rights to all of that music and they were the ones who took it down, not Luz himself. He burned a LOT of bridges through all of this and he’s being shunned.

The fact that he’s even trying to make a comeback (and without a formal apology to my knowledge?) is even pretty audacious of him.

*edit* well I guess that livestream was the apology, but it’s still low-key kind of shitty of him to have his only apology be in a not-saved livestream. He should have either recorded it as a video and kept the video up on his channel, or at the very least post an apology letter online.

Words cannot describe how back-stabbed some of his former friends felt, especially Kanon69 since his scandal truly screwed over the group. I’ve never seen another Japanese celebrity not have their apology video permanently uploaded, so I have no idea what he’s thinking.

Aw man, this really sucks, I've always loved his voice and music. Thank you for the information though, I really appreciate it! I do wonder where his new music will be put up though, but I guess for now I'll try checking Nico Nico Douga lol

 

[RussianRoulette]

Aw man, this really sucks, I've always loved his voice and music. Thank you for the information though, I really appreciate it! I do wonder where his new music will be put up though, but I guess for now I'll try checking Nico Nico Douga lol

His new stuff going forward will still be on his youtube channel.

He owned his youtube channel before he signed a contract with his former company, that's why some of his older videos are still up on his channel. His new company just owned all of that music and song covers that he posted while was under contract which is why he had to delete them.