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Rina Sawayama (リナ サワヤマ, born 16 August 1990) is a Japanese-British singer-songwriter, model and actress based in London. Born in Niigata, she was raised from a young age in London, where she currently resides. Her debut extended play Rina was released in 2017 to critical acclaim.

The singer gained further recognition following the release of her debut studio album Sawayama released on 17 April 2020, which also received critical acclaim. The album spawned five singles–including "STFU!", "XS", "Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)" and "Bad Friend". In late 2020, the singer released a new single, "Lucid", produced by BloodPop, which was featured on the deluxe edition of Sawayama, including a bonus disc with eleven new tracks.

Sawayama was included in the Vogue Japan's "Women of the Year 2019" winners.[1] She was also awarded the Breakthrough Award by the Attitude Awards in 2020.[2] In late July 2020, Sawayama expressed her discontent after being informed that she could not be eligible to be nominated for major British music awards, such as the Brit Awards and Mercury Prize, due to the fact that she does not hold British citizenship. Her movement gained major support from Elton John online. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) later changed the rules to allow anyone who had remained in the UK, including her, to be eligible.

Early life

Portrait of a young Rina Sawayama.

Portrait of a young Rina Sawayama.

Rina Sawayama was born 16 August 1990 in Niigata, Japan.[3][4] She lived there until the age of five when, for her father's job at Japan Airlines, her family decided to emigrate to London, England, on 19 June 1995, where she was raised and currently lives.[5][6] She attended a Japanese school until she was ten.[7] She recalled, "When we decided to stay, I was ten and my English was quite bad. I remember feeling like I couldn't say what I wanted."[8] Her parents divorced while she was in her teens, and she was raised primarily by her mother. Growing up near Camden, she'd go to gigs and at the age of fifteen discovered her love of music and its community. She first went to therapy at the age of 15, having an eating disorder and being self-harming.[5][9]

While studying politics, psychology and sociology at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge,[10] she decided to pursue music and modelling, while she worked various part-time jobs. During her time at university, she was in a hip hop group called Lazy Lion with Theo Ellis from the indie rock band Wolf Alice.[3] She graduated from the university with a degree in political science. Financially struggling and feeling like an outsider among her peers for her identity, she did temporary jobs and struggled with depression. Her relationship with her mother was strained at this point, eventually causing Sawayama to move out and realize she needed to pick herself back up.[8]

Career

2013-2014: Musical career beginnings

Sawayama by .

Sawayama by Jack Davison.

Sawayama began her solo career in 2013, with the single "Sleeping in Waking" produced by Justin "Hoost" Tailor. A 7-inch vinyl of the single, featuring a new song titled "Who?" as the B-side, was released in April 2013 through British label Make Mine.[11][12] Later that year, she released the single "Terror" on Halloween under the stage name of "Riina".[13] Sawayama would later reveal in a 2021 Billboard interview that the reason she used only her first name is because her last name was "an inconvenience".[14] In 2014, the singer teased a new song titled "Love Tonight". A music video was also made for the single, directed by Ali Kurr and cinematographed by Nick Morris. However, both the song and the video were never released for unknown reasons.

2015–2018: Early recognition and Rina

Sawayama in 2017, by .

Sawayama in 2017, by Harry Carr.

In June 2015, she released a music video, directed by Arvida Byström, to her track "Tunnel Vision".[15] In 2016, she released the single "Where U Are," with an accompanying music video co-directed by Alessandra Kurr.[16] The single explored human interaction with digital media, with Sawayama explaining: "Online you can present your best edited self [and] your overheating phone substitutes human warmth. Weirdest of all—you're together, but also very alone."[17]

In March 2017, her single "Cyber Stockholm Syndrome" premiered on The Fader.[18] Sawayama described the genesis of the themes of the track as: "the digital world can offer vital support networks, voices of solidarity, refuge, escape. That's what ‘Cyber Stockholm Syndrome’ is about: pessimism, optimism, anxiety, and freedom."[18] In 2017, the singles "Alterlife" and "Tunnel Vision," a duet with Shamir, were released, followed by her debut mini-album Rina.[19][20] Sawayama was then an unsigned artist, and Rina was released independently; she confirmed on Twitter that she worked for two to three years in order to save money to release the EP.[21]

In 2018, she released the single "Valentine (What's It Gonna Be)" on Valentine's Day.[22] The music video for album track "Ordinary Superstar" was released in June 2018.[23] In August 2018, Sawayama released the track "Cherry," in which she explores her sexual identity.[24] Sawayama embarked on her Ordinary Superstar Tour across the UK and America in late 2018.[25] In 2019, she was the support act for Charli XCX's tour across the UK.[26]

2019-2021: Sawayama era

Sawayama with her Breakthrough award at the 2020 Attitude Awards red carpet.

Sawayama with her Breakthrough award at the 2020 Attitude Awards red carpet.

In 2020, after signing to Dirty Hit records, she announced her debut album, Sawayama. The album was preceded by the singles "STFU!", a nu metal, heavy metal, pop and avant-pop song, and "Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)", an "homage to early 2000s dance tracks."[27] The third single, the rock and 2000s R&B inspired "XS" was released on 2 March 2020.[28] The following month, Sawayama released another single from the album titled "Chosen Family."[29] Her debut album Sawayama was released on 17 April 2020 to widespread critical acclaim.[30][31] On 29 June 2020, she released a cover of the Grammy-nominated Lady Gaga song, "Dance in the Dark" (2009) as part of Spotify's Singles series, recorded in Sawayama's home studio with production handled by Clarence Clarity.[32]

In late July 2020, Sawayama made a public tweet about her ineligibility to be nominated for major British music awards, such as the Mercury Prize and Brit Awards, due to the fact that she does not hold British citizenship.[33][34][35][36] The hashtag "#SawayamaIsBritish" became trending on Twitter in the UK shortly after. Sawayama's movement gained major support from Elton John online,[37] who wrote that he was "happy to hear that the [BPI] are reviewing the rules that led to Rina Sawayama's well-deserved album being snubbed from this year's [Mercury Prize] list of nominees."[38] The BPI later changed the rules to allow anyone who had remained in the UK, including her, to be eligible.[39]

On 26 October 2020, Sawayama made her television debut performing the song "XS" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.[40] The following month, she released a song titled "Lucid", produced by BloodPop.[41]

On 4 December 2020, a deluxe version of Sawayama was released.[42] In April 2021, Sawayama released an updated version of her song "Chosen Family", as a duet with Elton John.[43] The following month, Sawayama was cast in an undisclosed role in the fourth installment in the John Wick film series.[44] In August 2021, Sawayama was included on Newsweek Japan "100 Japanese people respected by the world" list.[45] Sawayama contributed a cover of the Metallica song "Enter Sandman" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021 and produced by Clarence Clarity.[46]

Sawayama was reportedly finishing working on her second studio album in 2021.[47] In November of that year, she embarked to the first leg of the Dynasty Tour in support of her debut album Sawayama, where she performed songs from the record and from her EP Rina (2017).[48] During her shows in Glasgow on 13 November and in London on 17 November, she performed a new song titled "Catch Me in the Air", from her upcoming album.[47]

2022–2024: Hold the Girl era

Main article: Rina Sawayama/Hold the Girl
Sawayama on the cover of British Vogue, photographed by in 2023.

Sawayama on the cover of British Vogue, photographed by Tim Walker in 2023.

In 2022, Sawayama appeared as a featured artist on Charli XCX's single "Beg for You", released on 27 January 2022,[49] and on Pabllo Vittar's single "Follow Me", released on 31 March.[50] On 16 May 2022, she announced that her second studio album Hold the Girl would be released on 2 September 2022–however, the release date was then delayed to 16 September.[51] Its lead single "This Hell" was released on 18 May,[52] followed by the pre-album singles "Catch Me in the Air", "Hold the Girl", "Phantom" and "Hurricanes".

Upon release, Hold the Girl received critical acclaim and was included on several yeard-end lists from publications such as NME and Rough Trade. The album debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart, marking Sawayama's highest chart entry to date. To promote the record, she embarked to the Hold the Girl Tour, which ran from October 2022 to February 2023 across Europe, North America, Oceania, and Asia. In June 2023, Sawayama introduced a reworked version of the tour titled the Hold the Girl: Reloaded Tour. Running for 14 dates in North America from June to October, the revamped production featured new costumes, staging, visuals and a revised narrative structure. Sawayama later explained that the redesign stemmed from feeling that the initial tour was rushed and lacked the emotional connection she desired. The singer also made her film acting debut as Akira Shimazu in John Wick: Chapter 4, released in March 2023.

In early 2024, Sawayama received the Asia Entertainment Game Changer honor at the Asia ENtertainment Summit and Game Changer Awards.[53] In March 2024, Sawayama stated that she was unable to release a new album "under [her] current conditions".[54] She made this statement after contributing to an International Women's Day article in The Independent, where she discussed her mental health and said she had faced "intense racist misogyny in a way that [she had] never felt before", connected to her Glastonbury 2023 performance where she introduced her song "STFU!" by criticizing singer Matty Healy for his racist remarks on a podcast.[55] "I've been repeatedly gaslit, disrespected, ignored, even cyber-bullied for calling out blatant racist and sexist behaviour," the singer stated, "it's horrifying seeing how the forts around men get built overnight and the techniques used to try to discredit and confuse the narrative."[56]

In April, Japanese rapper Chanmina joined Sawayama in the Gyarupi remix of the single "This Hell" as part of Spotify's "Glow" program that "aims to shine a light on its LGBTQIA+ creators". Both Sawayama and Chanmina were also featured guests in the first two episodes of the platform's Pride Code podcast.[57] Sawayama was also featured on "Saving Flowers" by Austrian DJ Salute, as well as on "I'm Free", the lead single from Paris Hilton's album Infinite Icon (2024).[58]

2025–present: Other projects and third studio album

Sawayama at the studio for her third album.

Sawayama at the studio for her third album.

In February 2025, after a small musical hiatus, Sawayama took to her social media to share photos of her at the studio, with the caption "Maybe music isn’t so bad after all…".[59]

In May 2025, a new John Wick spin-off, centered on Donnie Yen's character Caine, was announced with Sawayama set to reprise her role as Akira Shimazu.[60] It was also announced that Sawayama had joined the cast of Prodigies, a seven-episode romantic comedy created by and starring Will Sharpe alongside Ayo Edebiri as two former child prodigies "navigating adulthood while reassessing the expectations placed on them in their youth." Sawayama will appear in a recurring role as Hana, the sister of Sharpe's character, Ren.[61]

In September, the singer joined a boycott titled "No Music for Genocide", removing her music from Israeli streaming platforms to protest against Israel's military actions in Gaza.[62] She also made a brief appearance on Together for Palestine, a benefit concert that took place on 17 September 2025.[63] The singer was also part of the Autumn/Winter campaign for UGG alongside other celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Elsa Hosk.[64]

Sawayama was interviewed by Vogue Japan in October 2025, where she shared more details about the recording process for her upcoming third studio album, noting that it is influenced by the current world situation.[65][66] She revealed that she has written more songs than ever before—reportedly around 50—and is "considering the direction and themes of my sound", selecting only the tracks that best capture her emotional and political vision.

Political and social change have always been the driving force behind my creativity. Pop music can sometimes serve as a distraction from reality, but I would rather reflect the darkness of the world today. Rather than escaping reality, I want to express negative feelings through music. I think this album will be much darker and angrier than my previous ones.[65]

For the third album, the singer reportedly worked with producers Zhone, Sarah Hudson, Shintaro Yasuda and Cirkut.

Other ventures

On 29 April 2025, Sawayama announced Godmode Beauty, a cosmetics brand which she co-founded with American actress Chloë Grace Moretz, in partnership with the creative incubator Closer Group.[67] The gaming-inspired brand debuted its first collection "Genesis", in July 2025.

Modelling career

Sawayama has been signed to Anti Agency and Elite Model Management. In 2017, she was chosen for Versus x Versace's fall winter campaign.[68] She has also starred in campaigns for Jourdan Dunn's Missguided,[69] and wrote and performed an original track for Nicola Formichetti’s MAC x Nicopanda.[70]

Collaborations

In 2016, Sawayama collaborated with artist John Yuyi on a visual series critiquing Asian, and Japanese, beauty standards. Subsequently, she was profiled in Vogue Magazine. In the interview, Sawayama described the genesis of the idea and collaboration: "For a lot of women in Japan, these are the expectations people put on them, from anime culture, kawaii culture... that can really put women at a disadvantage, objectifying and infantilizing them."[6] Sawayama has worked with Nicola Formichetti for MAC x Nicopanda. Formichetti also directed the music video for Sawayama's track ‘Ordinary Superstar’. The genesis of the partnership was outlined in i-D.[71]

Artistry and public image

Sawayama has said that she began singing after her family engaged heavily in karaoke and first sang "Automatic" by Hikaru Utada in front of her parents as its music video aired on television.[72] She cited Utada as the reason she "started doing music."[73] She has mentioned Madonna as a "huge inspiration" to her.[74] Sawayama also frequently cites Lady Gaga as an inspiration[75][76] and began using her vocal technique bel canto after researching her singing techniques.[73] She listed Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys and Karen O as vocalists she admires. At the age of twelve, Sawayama convinced her father to give her a guitar after she began listening to Avril Lavigne and taught herself to play chords on it. She subsequently began writing songs after doing so.[77] Other influences Sawayama cite include: Christina Aguilera,[78] Britney Spears, Evanescence, NSYNC, Kylie Minogue, Limp Bizkit,[79] Pink, Ringo Sheena and Taylor Swift, among others.[80][81]

Personal life

In August 2018, Sawayama came out during an interview with Broadly, declaring: “I’ve always written songs about girls. I don't think I’ve ever mentioned a guy in my songs, and that's why I wanted to talk about it.” She has previously identified as bisexual, and came out as pansexual with her 2018 single, "Cherry".[82][83]

In May 2020, Sawayama revealed that she was doing an online course at the University of Oxford.[75] In July 2020, she signed an open letter to the UK Equalities minister Liz Truss calling for a ban on all forms of LGBT+ conversion therapy.[84] In a September 2022 interview with Them, Sawayama mentioned that she has IBS.[85][86]

In 2017, Sawayama was ranked in The Guardian's "18 for '18" list as well as Dazed's "100 people shaping culture in 2017" list.[87][88] Lady Gaga described Sawayama as "an experimental pop visionary who refuses to play by the rules".[89]

Discography

Main article: Discography

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2022 John Wick: Chapter 4 Akira
20XX Untitled Caine spin-off Akira

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2019 Turn Up Charlie Layla Valentine Recurring role; 2 episodes
20XX Prodigies Hanna In production; recurring role

Tours

Headlining

Supporting

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations

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