hayato kaori

Artist

ハヤトカオリ

Kaori Hayato is a Japanese-Brazilian female singer from Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, and a recording artist signed to Victor Entertainment. She builds her music around a flexible, soaring voice with plenty of expressive range, letting her move comfortably from buoyant pop to more heartfelt ballad material as the song demands. Her signature anime credit came when she performed "Koi Suru Lens," the opening theme of Photo Kano, a TV anime adapted from the popular romantic-dating adventure game in which a high school boy picks up a camera and lets photography draw him into unexpected romances with the girls around him. The song rides a breezy, up-tempo dance-pop arrangement, and Kaori's light, confident delivery adds just the right dose of teenage flutter to suit the game's first-love atmosphere. Her performance helps define the sunny, optimistic tone of the Photo Kano adaptation and stands as a memorable slice of early-2010s romantic-comedy anime music.