Debut album KINTSUGI — Feb 12, 2027
Amaya Kurose
R&B · Pop · Yokosuka → Norfolk → Atlanta
Currently
Lead single “Hold Me Loose” out now
From the album KINTSUGI, coming February 12, 2027 on Gold Seam Recordings.
01 — Story
Milestones
- 2002Born in Yokosuka, JapanNavy father · pianist mother
- 2009Joins her father’s youth choirNorfolk, Virginia
- 2022“Paper Lantern” filmed in her grandfather’s caféKissa Kuro · Kure, Hiroshima
- 2024Five months of vocal rest140 songs written in silence
- 2025Late Checkout EPSelf-released · closet booth, Atlanta
2027 · The Gold Seams Tour
- Mar 4Atlanta, GATickets soon
- Mar 7Norfolk, VA hometown showTickets soon
- Mar 14New York, NYTickets soon
- Mar 26Los Angeles, CATickets soon
- Apr 9London, UKTickets soon
- Apr 18Tokyo, JapanTickets soon
Full dates in the press kit. [Placeholder: ticket links]
02 — Music
KINTSUGI
Named for the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. Produced by Shoulda Been Big.
- 01Slow Burn Sunday
- 02 · SingleHold Me Loose
- 03Kintsugi
- 04Say Less
- 05Both Halves
Self-hosted previews: nothing loads until you press play. Streaming links to be confirmed.
03 — About
Two kinds of sacred listening.
Amaya Noelle Kurose-Bell, known as Amaya Kurose, was born in Yokosuka, Japan, to a Black American Navy sonar technician and a Japanese jazz pianist, and raised in Norfolk, Virginia.
Sundays meant her father’s Baptist choir. Summers meant Kissa Kuro, her grandfather’s jazz-and-soul listening café in Kure, where nobody spoke while a record played. After he passed in 2022, her video of “Paper Lantern,” sung on his old upright in the empty café, went viral. Then came a shelved record deal and five months of vocal rest. She came back with a self-made EP and, now, KINTSUGI: an album about the gold in the cracks.
“Being half in two places taught me to listen twice. Broken is just the part where the gold goes.”— Amaya Kurose
04 — Gallery & Press
Frames
- The Low End Letter“A voice raised in a choir loft and finished in a listening room.”[Fictional outlet]
- Night Bus Radio“KINTSUGI turns every crack into a hook.”[Fictional outlet]
- Gold Static“The most patient singer of her generation.”[Fictional outlet]
05 — Contact
Let’s make
something.
- Management
- [Management — to be supplied]
- Label
- Gold Seam Recordings
- Socials
- [Handles to be supplied]