Kaze is the name used by several different artists, including an Italian pop singer-songwriter from Nairobi, a Japanese solo pop vocalist, a free jazz quartet, an American hip-hop artist, and a Spanish rapper.

Italian pop singer-songwriter

The Italian artist Kaze is a pop singer-songwriter from Nairobi, Italy. Beyond that identification, the supplied facts do not give further details about releases, collaborations, or activity.

Other artists using the name Kaze

Free jazz quartet

One Kaze is a free jazz group formed only seven months before its debut recording, Rafale. It brings together Natsuki Tamura on trumpet, Christian Pruvost on trumpet, Satoko Fujii on piano, and Peter Orins on drums. Tamura and Fujii are described as two of Japan’s leading improviser-composers, while Pruvost and Orins come from the French improvisers collective Muzzix. The group is presented as an international quartet focused on spontaneous composition and sonic experimentation, and its music is described as melodic, abstract, mysterious, beautiful, and confrontational.

Japanese solo vocalist

Another Kaze begins as a solo artist on the D-topia label with the digital single Zurukare in 2011. This artist also appears on several compilation albums.

Kevin “Kaze” Thomas

Kevin “Kaze” Thomas is a hip-hop artist and producer associated with northern Virginia and eastern North Carolina. He grows up in the 1980s listening to his older sister’s hip-hop mixtapes, and later studies communications at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. There he helps create Hip-Hop Nation, an on-campus organisation for emcees, poets, DJs, dancers, and graffiti artists.

His profile broadens nationally in 2001 when he helps co-create, produce, and host the syndicated television programme Hip-Hop Nation: Notes from the Underground, which reaches viewers in more than a hundred markets. He later establishes his own label, Soul Dojo, Inc. His debut release on the label is Spirit of ’94, a 15-track tribute to hip-hop pioneers that he writes and produces. The release receives critical praise, sells independently through the streets and local record stores, and is later distributed by BCD Global Distribution. Its single, 50/50 Amp, receives radio play and charts on Billboard and CMJ, while Kaze reaches number 11 on the Rap Network chart in March 2004.

His second release, Enemy of the State, arrives in April 2004 as a mixtape featuring North Carolina hip-hop artists and producers, including Nature and 9th Wonder. He is also known as a battle MC and performs at venues across the Southeast, including the Smith Center, Gusman Theater, Cat’s Cradle, Echo Lounge, Local 506, Apache Cafe, and The Brewery. He opens for Nas, Jurassic 5, KRS-One, Dead Prez, The Arsonists, Swollen Members, and Camp Lo, and he also hosts Soul Dojo’s open mic night, Microphone Mondays, at Local 506.

Spanish rapper

A further artist called Kaze is Cristian, a rapper from Cartagena, Spain. His first album, No Encajes, is released in 2016.