Real name: 高野哲 (Takano, Tetsu)

Tetsu Takano (born December 12th, 1972 in Tokyo) is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, and occasionally solo artist.
After debuting as a visual kei artist in the bands Ner-vous (1992-1992) and Malice Mizer (1992-1994), he later moved on to a straight rock sound with MEGA 8 BALL (1995-1997) and especially the major band ZIGZO (1998-2002). Since 2002 he is the frontman of nil, a band he had formed back in 1998 but that went on hiatus after he joined ZIGZO.