Cinematic synth-pop for lonely hearts after midnight.
Liam Tachihara is a Japanese-American artist, actor, and musician based in New York City, creating cinematic City Pop and synth-pop shaped by neon nostalgia, emotional vulnerability, and the feeling of being awake long after midnight.
Blending vintage synths, Tokyo memories, queer identity, and the restless energy of NYC nights, Liam’s music exists somewhere between retro romance and digital loneliness — songs made for late-night subway rides, unanswered messages, and moments people quietly return to when emotions resurface.
His debut album CITY POP DREAMS introduces a neon-lit world of shimmering melodies, cinematic emotion, and modern City Pop storytelling. Tracks such as Dye Me More, Big Apple Hell, Beautiful Love, and Digital Heartache explore heartbreak, desire, identity, and the strange beauty of feeling too much in a city that never truly sleeps.
Beyond music, Liam is also a SAG-AFTRA actor whose work spans television, film, and voiceover. His performances combine emotional intensity with multicultural depth, shaped by fluency in English and Japanese, as well as proficiency in French and conversational Spanish.
His screen and voice credits include Netflix’s Maniac, the Nashville Film Festival-selected short film The American, Thomas & Friends: Thomas’ Tokyo Trouble, and Nickelodeon’s Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he contributed music performance and vocal work.
Recognized internationally, Liam received a UK Songwriting Contest Special Mention (Pop) and became a two-time Semi-Finalist in the Music Video category, selected by Grammy, Emmy, and BRIT Award-winning judges.
More than retro revival, Liam Tachihara’s work is about emotional afterimages — music and stories that linger long after the lights go out.
