ZAQ

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) ZAQ (born March 16, 1988) is a female Japanese singer-songwriter signed to Lantis. ZAQ began to learn the piano at age three. During her college years, her idol was Minori Chihara, and it was during this time she decided to become a singer. However, she failed all her auditions. In junior high school, ZAQ's favorite bands were Mongol800 and Going Steady, two rock groups which she was addicted to. She is self-taught in composing and her works were characterized by a unique style which is unrestricted by music theory and musicology. She started writing songs for other artists in 2012, and made her solo debut with Lantis with the single "Sparkling Daydream" released on October 24, 2012; the title song is used as the opening theme to the 2012 anime series Chūnibyō Demo Koi ga Shitai!. 2) ZAQ (born February 8, 1996) is a Kazakh rapper, songwriter and a member of a Q-Pop band Ninety One. He has been rapping since the second grade of elementary school and attended various rap battles in Kazakh language. After becoming one of the winners of the "K-Top Idols" project in 2014 he joined a boy band Ninety One formed by JUZ Entertainment. The band enjoyed a wide success among the young audiences and became one of the most successful Kazakh bands in recent years. In 2020 ZAQ debuted his solo album Do Lot (the title references his real name Dulat). ZAQ is continuously working as both a member of Ninety One and as a solo artist. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.