# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuki-watanabe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:45:14.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuki-watanabe"
name: "Kazuki Watanabe"
slug: "kazuki-watanabe"
description: "Kazuki Watanabe , known by his stage name Kazuki (華月), was a Japanese musician known as guitarist and lead songwriter of the visual kei rock band Raphael. The group became quite popular, with all their releases entering the top 40 of the Oricon chart, before disbanding after Kazuki died at the age of 19."
tagline: "Japanese musician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/RaphaelKazuki.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1981-04-07"
deathDate: "2000-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.86
  momentum:             4.012021036814426
  historical:           9.003313333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://web.archive.org/web/20060517074737/http://www.h-do.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6daf7443-e112-4201-a84a-3663714b32d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "كازوكي واتانابي (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "كازوكى واتانابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Watanabe_(musician)"
    title: "Kazuki Watanabe (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Watanabe_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Kazuki Watanabe (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%AF%E6%9C%88_(Raphael)"
    title: "華月 (Raphael)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki"
    title: "Kazuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Watanabe"
    title: "Kazuki Watanabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B6%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B4_%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "คาซึกิ วาตานาเบะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%AF%E6%9C%88"
    title: "華月"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6381519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump