Kiyoharu Mori is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to pursuing a solo career under the name "Kiyoharu," has also performed with the visual kei band Kuroyume and the punk-rock band Sads. He was born on October 30, 1968, in Gifu Prefecture. After joining a series of short-lived bands during the 1980s — including Double Bed, Sus4, and Garnet — he formed Kuroyume in 1991. The influential band helped pioneer the Nagoya kei subgenre and topped the Oricon Albums Chart with records like 1996's Fake Star ~I'm Just a Japanese Fake Rocker~. When Kuroyume temporarily broke up in 1999, Kiyoharu formed Sads and released five studio albums. Sads took a hiatus of its own in 2003, but Kiyoharu continued making music on his own, ultimately releasing the solo album Poetry one year later. A number of additional solo records followed, including 2008's Rhythmless & Perspective Light: Saw the Light & Shade, 2009's Madrigal Of Decadence, 2020's Japanese Menu/Distortion 10. He scored a number of hit singles along the way, too, reaching to Top 10 with "Horizon," "Layra," "五月雨," "狂った果実," and "Darlene." In 2024, he returned to the Japanese charts with Eternal, which reached number 19 on Japan's Top 100 Albums chart that April.
