Everything You Wanted to Know About INTERSECTION Singer and Solo J-Pop Sensation Kazuma Mitchell
Kazuma Mitchell, also known as Kaz, is a Japanese-American J-pop artist best known for his work with the boy group INTERSECTION—but he's recently launched his solo career, and we seriously can't get enough.
He's already dropped two tracks off of his upcoming EP Code Love, and we are counting down the days until we can hear all of Kaz's genius in one place. If you're as curious about Kaz as we are, keep reading to find out everything we discovered about him as our latest Man Crush Monday.
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Name: Kazuma Horikawa Mitchell
Hometown: Born in New York, living in Tokyo for over 10 years
Birthday: May 15
Fun Facts:
1. People often come to Kazuma when they need to talk about their problems in life.
"I just kind of listen to them and give them my perspective on it, but I feel like a lot of the time, they don't really follow the advice I give. So I feel like I'm pretty useless when I think about it! But I just try to listen and give my opinion on whatever they're going through."
-Kazuma Mitchell
2. He doesn't have just one person that he's closest to in his life.
"I would have to say it's my close group of friends that I've known for a while who always keep me grounded."
-Kazuma Mitchell
3. He says that even though he seems serious, he's actually pretty playful.
4. He says Spider-Man is the best superhero of all time.
"Spider-Man, 100%, the GOAT, is the best. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong."
-Kazuma Mitchell
5. He finds both Spider-Man and Goku from the Dragon Ball Z series pretty inspiring.
6. He struggles to pick just one favorite movie because there are so many good ones.
"I really like Shutter Island and Inception. So many new ones I really like, too. I really like horror movies too. Hereditary was good, and I also recommend Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, that one was crazy. Super good.
-Kazuma Mitchell
7. If he could pick anyone to play him in a movie about his life, Kazuma would probably pick Caelan Moriarty, one of his INTERSECTION groupmates.
"He's a great actor."
-Kazuma Mitchell
8. He's big on video games.
"Me and my friends play Super Smash Bros. all the time. They call me "king of smash" actually—well some of them do. But I also play League of Legends. I'm really bad at shooting games so I stay away from them. I don't really play Fortnite and stuff. I used to play Pokémon, too.
-Kazuma Mitchell
9. He has one younger sister, making him the oldest child.
"She always got new stuff, like phones, at the same time that I did, and I was always really mad about that because I was like, "Wait, you're two years younger than me. How come you're getting it at the same time?" but I think you get over that once you get older. You learn that life isn't fair from an early age."
-Kazuma Mitchell
10. He tries to keep a balance between being rational and playful:
"I like to stay rational most of the time and think through everything, but recently I've realized that the times that I enjoy the most in my life is when I sort of let things happen and I don't overthink it too much. So I would have to say just staying level-headed, but also in the moment."
-Kazuma Mitchell
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