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{{Short description|Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (born 1973)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| image             = Kong-Skull Island Japan Premiere Red Carpet-GACKT (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Gackt in 2017
| birth_name        = {{Nihongo|Gakuto Oshiro|大城 ガクト|Ōshiro Gakuto}}
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1973|07|4}}
| birth_place       = [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], Japan
| years_active      = 1993–2021, 2022–present
| alias             = {{Nihongo|Gackt Camui|神威 楽斗|Kamui Gakuto}}
| occupation        = {{Hlist|Singer-songwriter|musician|record producer|actor}}
| background        = solo_singer
| origin            = [[Tokyo]], Japan
| genre             = {{Hlist|[[Rock music|Rock]]|[[Pop music|pop]]}}
| discography       = [[Gackt discography]]
| instruments       = {{Hlist|Vocals|piano|guitar|drums}}
| label             = {{Hlist|G&Lovers|[[Gan-Shin]]|[[Nippon Crown]]|[[Avex Group]]}}
| current_member_of =
| past_member_of    = {{flatlist|
* [[Malice Mizer]]
* [[Skin (Japanese band)|S.K.I.N.]]
* [[Are You "Fried Chickenz"??#The band|Yellow Fried Chickenz]]}}
| website           = {{URL|gackt.com}}
}}

{{Nihongo|'''Gakuto Oshiro'''|大城 ガクト|Ōshiro Gakuto|born July 4, 1973}},{{refn|group="nb"|Gackt's exact birth name was publicly unknown until 2017. For a certain period of time was considered that {{Nihongo|Gackt Camui|神威 楽斗|Kamui Gakuto}} was his real name,<ref name="MathewsWhite2012">{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Laura|chapter=Youth fashion and beautification|title=Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4K2D1O5tkQC|year=2012|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-134-35389-7|pages=90–91}}</ref><ref name="ChapmanJohnson2016">{{cite book|author1=Henry Johnson|author2=Akitsugu Kawamoto|chapter=Visual Kei: Glamour in Japanese Pop Music|title=Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RY-PCwAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-317-58819-1|page=202}}</ref><ref name="ValerieCross">{{cite web|url=https://www.pokernews.com/news/2017/08/gackt-music-poker-japan-28842.htm|title=Pop Music Star Gackt Attempting to Change Poker's Image in Japan|author=Valerie Cross|date=August 28, 2017|publisher=[[PokerNews]]|access-date=August 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828225322/https://www.pokernews.com/news/2017/08/gackt-music-poker-japan-28842.htm|archive-date=August 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> but [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]], beside "Gackt" and "Gackt C," listed [[Gakuto]] [[Oshiro]], which are a Japanese given name and surname.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE Repertory |url=https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceWeb/#ace/writer/557621632/OOSHIROGAKUTO |publisher=ASCAP |access-date=August 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106040548/https://mobile.ascap.com/aceclient/AceWeb/#ace/writer/557621632/OOSHIROGAKUTO |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet |user=TDPaulCampbell |author=Paul Campbell |number=883789407727136768 |date=July 8, 2017 |title=Results from yesterday's @ARIAPoker $25K High Roller}}</ref> They were confirmed by Gackt on December 26, 2017.<ref name="NatalieName">{{cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/music/news/263127|title=GACKTが初めて本名を明かし、実業家として仮想通貨事業に取り組むことを発表|date=December 27, 2017|work=[[Natalie (website)|Natalie]]|access-date=December 27, 2017|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227123100/https://natalie.mu/music/news/263127|archive-date=December 27, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AmebaName">{{cite news|url=https://news.ameba.jp/entry/20171227-558/|title=GACKT、実業家として初めて本名を公表 大型の新規事業の全貌も明らかに|date=December 27, 2017|work=[[Ameba (website)|Ameba]]|publisher=CyberAgent Inc|access-date=December 27, 2017|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054126/https://news.ameba.jp/entry/20171227-558/|archive-date=December 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> His year of birth, 1973, was also unknown until November 5, 2009, and instead his public profile used 1540.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.j-cast.com/2007/11/05012976.html?p=all| title=「Gackt様」オバさまに超人気 秘密は謙信「妖艶」の役柄作り| date=November 11, 2007| publisher=J-Cast| access-date=December 8, 2023| language=ja}}</ref><ref name="dob">{{cite web| url=http://career.oricon.co.jp/news/70378/full/| title=年齢不詳のGackt、遂に実年齢をカミングアウト｢来年37歳!｣| date=November 5, 2009| publisher=[[Oricon]]| access-date=November 6, 2009| language=ja| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726071500/http://career.oricon.co.jp/news/70378/full/| archive-date=July 26, 2011| url-status=live}}</ref> This was a remnant of his claim to be a vampire from his early career.<ref name="dob"/>}}<ref name="dob"/> better known as '''Gackt''' (stylized in [[all caps]]),{{refn|group="nb"|On June 4, 2009, in commemoration of his solo career's 10th anniversary, his stage name "Gackt" became stylized in all-capital letters as "GACKT".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/gackt-becomes-gackt-to-celebrate-10-years |title=Gackt becomes GACKT to celebrate 10th anniversary |date=June 15, 2009 |publisher=[[Japan Today]] |access-date=November 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103131256/https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/gackt-becomes-gackt-to-celebrate-10-years |archive-date=November 3, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor.

Born in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]] to a [[Ryukyuan people|Ryukyuan]] family, Gackt learned the piano at a young age and was raised on [[classical music]] and [[enka]] before becoming interested in [[rock music]] while attending high school. He has been active since 1993, first as the frontman of the short-lived independent band Cains:Feel, and then from 1995 the now-defunct [[visual kei]] rock band [[Malice Mizer]]. Gackt started his solo career in 1999 with debut [[Mini-LP|mini-album]] ''[[Mizérable (EP)|Mizérable]]'' and first full-length album ''[[Mars (Gackt album)|Mars]]'' (2000). He has released nine studio albums and, with forty-eight singles released, holds the male soloist record for most top ten consecutive singles in Japanese music history.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/89976/full/| title=Gackt、男性ソロ1位の39作目TOP10 田原俊彦の記録を19年ぶり更新| date=July 19, 2011| publisher=Oricon| access-date=July 20, 2011| language=ja| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722105630/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/89976/full| archive-date=July 22, 2011| url-status=live}}</ref> They are mostly conceived around two conceptual stories "Moon Saga"  (''[[Moon (Gackt album)|Moon]]'', ''[[Crescent (Gackt album)|Crescent]]'', ''[[Diabolos]]'', ''[[Last Moon]]'') and "Requiem et Reminiscence" (''[[Rebirth (Gackt album)|Rebirth]]'', ''[[Re:Born (album)|Re:Born]]'') which are performed live in uniquely elaborate concerts. His single "[[Returner (Yami no Shūen)]]" (2007), is his first and only single to reach the number one spot on the [[Oricon]] charts.<ref name="oricon compliments">{{cite web| url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/45823| title=Gackt、1999年デビュー以来初の1位獲得!| date=June 26, 2007| publisher=Oricon| language=ja| access-date=June 26, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630000908/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/45823/| archive-date=June 30, 2007| url-status=live}}</ref> As a solo artist, Gackt has sold over 10 million records.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/9259/profile/|title=Oricon Profile (2009-07-15 更新 "Update")|date=July 15, 2009 |publisher=Oricon|language=ja|access-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103014725/https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/9259/profile/|archive-date=January 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2007 became a founding member of [[Skin (Japanese band)|S.K.I.N.]], a Japanese visual kei rock supergroup, and in 2010 formed his own band project [[Yellow Fried Chickenz]].

Besides being established in the modern entertainment industry and considered a pop icon, Gackt's music has been used as theme songs for video games (''[[Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII]]''), video game films (''[[Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker]]''), anime series/films (''[[New Fist of the North Star]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam#Compilation movies|Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam]]'', ''[[Texhnolyze]]'' and ''[[Trickster (Japanese TV series)|Trickster]]'') and television series (''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]''). In addition to his music career, Gackt has voice acted (including characters inspired by him in video games like in ''[[Bujingai]]'' and [[Genesis Rhapsodos]] in ''[[Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII]]''), and live acted in a few films, including a film he wrote, ''[[Moon Child (2003 film)|Moon Child]]'', his international debut ''[[Bunraku (film)|Bunraku]]'', [[43rd Japan Academy Film Prize|Japan Academy award]] nomination performance for [[Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor]] in ''[[Fly Me to the Saitama]]'', and TV series most notably as [[Uesugi Kenshin]] in the [[NHK]] drama ''[[Fūrin Kazan (TV series)|Fūrin Kazan]]''. He also performed live in [[theatre]] stage plays, ''[[Nemuri Kyōshirō#Nemuri X Gackt Project|Nemuri Kyoshiro Buraihikae]]'' and a duology he has written, composed, and directed ''[[Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II|Moon Saga: Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II]]''. He also provided the voice samples for [[Internet Co., Ltd.]]'s first [[Vocaloid]], [[Gackpoid]].