ON GROUP
KENICHIRO IWAO
Singer / Composer / Founder
I died once.
To live a second time.
This second life, I sing for those who could not raise their voice.

Artist Statement

I make music for those who live carrying a quiet suffering — for those who have lost, endured, and walked on even when living felt heavy.

The starting point of my music is the very lives of the people I met in the welfare field. Families seeking hope; children and adults living each day while facing disability; care workers, welfare workers, and supporters who keep protecting dignity even as they waver between ideals and reality. In them dwelled a strength and a sorrow beyond words, and a quiet courage that still tried to move forward.

Each time I touched that light and that shadow, I realized: music is a power for standing beside someone. Music stands quietly next to another, eases their pain just a little, and leads them toward a new beginning. It is not a way to flee from reality, but a path to walk together with someone's reality.

I do not sing in order to sing well. I am here to sing with all my heart, with everything I have, for each person who has faced life. It is the cry of the soul of a human being who has witnessed countless deaths and final moments of life — and it is all that dwells within my voice.

Face the lives and journeys of the voiceless with sincerity.

Profile

KENICHIRO IWAO
Musician / Welfare Revolutionary / Serial Entrepreneur
Group Chairman, ONGROUP, Inc.
Leads ON SYMPHONY

From his artist activity, the world folk music project ON SYMPHONY was born.

Listen

Songs, for the voiceless.

Channel

Together, with song.

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