Forced to give up a promising career as a motor racing driver due to injury, Ren
Nagabuchi turned to music in 2014 and quickly became a popular
singer-songwriter, billed as J-pop's answer to Ed Sheeran. Growing up in Tokyo,
his father, Go Nagabuchi, was a popular folk rocker in the 1970s who sold over
20 million records and his mother used to work as a stuntwoman, but he was
obsessed with cars from a young age and began racing karts at 12-years-old. In
2010, he lived in the UK and competed in the in All Kart Championship for the
Strawberry Racing team, but whilst there, he became...