From 1986 to 1998 she led Visual Gothic rock band, GILLE'LOVES. Renamed to "fiction" in 1997. She has however started releasing her own solo works in 1994 before they disbanded. She has cited her musical influences as David Bowie, The Cure, and Bauhaus. fiction contributed cover track "In The Flat Field" to the internationally released compilation album Satori: A Tribute to Bauhaus.
She uses the first-person Japanese pronoun boku in her songs, which she discusses in the February 2001 issue of J-ROCK Magazine (in a joint interview alongside Mana (musician) of Malice Mizer and Moi Dix Mois fame). In the same interview she mentioned she was nicknamed after Lady Oscar while in school.
In 2006, she disappeared from the music scene and closed her official fan club, though noting in the final issue that she may "be seen again". Since that time, she has worked in Tokyo as a fortune teller in group La Miste Yasuragi under the name Nana Tarot-sensei. It is rumored that "Nana" may be her real given name—though unconfirmed, it is a popular name for girls born on July 7, as one of the name's possible meanings is "seven". In any case, little of her personal life is known to the public, including her fans.
Then in 2011, she seems to have made a comeback: under her YouTube account, she posted one song that is supposed to be one of the tracks in her upcoming album called Iyashi no Tsuki, to be released in November. Unfortunately, to the disappointment of some fans, this was a hoax and the tracks were plagiarized from another obscure VK band, DIE RAUM KUNST.
There has been no further news about LUCI'FER since.
Selected Discography:
Albums
With GILLE'LOVES/fiction- [1993.10.30] Barairo no kyuuketsuki
- [1995.02.14] My Bloody Valentine -RARE:TRACKS- (compilation album)
- [1997.03.24] Lucifer to iu na no oningyou (as fiction)
- [2002.05.23] Moshuu wo Houmuri Saru Tame no Requiem Files - WORLD e'ND COMPILATION (compilation album)
- [1994.12.20] Yameru bara, arui wa iyasani kizuguchi
- [1997.07.24] Kusari ni tsunagareta tenshi
- [2000.09.30] Do you Remember the Rosegarden of Haunted Realm? -Yuureikan no Bara Niwa wo Oboeteru?-
- [2002.05.23] Hana no tetsugaku, tsuki no bigaku
VHS
With GILLE'LOVES/fiction- [1993.10.30] Shinku no Decadence -DECADENCE OF ROSE-
- [1996.10.XX] Kyuuketsuki Gekijou -THEATRE OF VAMPIRE-
- [1997.03.24] Akuma no Koi -DIZZINESS OF LUCIFER-
- [1997.07.24] LILLIE MARLENE
- [2000.03.09] Violenoue no Hanzai
Provides examples of:
- The '90s: When LUCI'FER begins to gain traction from underground goth/Visual Kei circles.
- Ambiguous Gender: Part and parcel of LUCI'FER's image is her androgyny.
- Bifauxnen: A woman who could easily pass for a very slender young man.
- Caps Lock: Upon the third iteration of her full name, her first two names are written as thus: LUCI'FER LUSCIOUS.
- Concept Album: "Kusari ni Tsunagareta Tenshi" is a mini-album that contains songs of experimental length and centered around the themes of World War II, Nazi Germany, and a deconstruction of "Lili Marleen", a famous love song at the time. It is about a girl in Germany in World War II. She had the dream of running away with her lover, but he was drafted, and she couldn’t go to war with him since she was a woman.
- Cover Version:
- She has at least two Bauhaus covers. One is "In the Flat Field" and the other, "Passion of Lovers" renamed "Jounetsu wa shi, to ano hito wa kataru".
- Tuxedomoon's "In a manner of speaking" featured in her "Kusari ni tsunagareta tenshi" album.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Her recordings with GILLE'LOVES' are much more rough sounding compared to her later output.
- Epic Rocking: A lot of her songs count. The much longer ones that clock in at 10 minutes or more are usually Spoken Word backed by original music.
- Fractured Fairy Tale: Her 2000 album has two of them in song. "Sleeping Beauty" and "Usotsuki Cinderella" (Lying Cinderella).
- Goth: Specializes in the Gothic Visual Kei.
- Gratuitous English: When it comes to making the titles of her work but not so much when considering the lyrics in her songs.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Her name has been stylized in different ways: Lucifer Luscious Violenoue, Luci'fer Luscious Violenoue and LUCI'FER LUSCIOUS Violenoue. Those are the only most well-known ones. Discogs complicates things by featuring at least five variations of her name.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: See Bifauxnen.
- Lighter and Softer: The materials released particularly from 2000-2002, in contrast with the ethereal and echo laden songs she's made in the 1990s.
- Mysterious Past: Not much is known who she actually is beyond her LUCI'FER persona.
- Narrative Poem: One of her unique qualities. Some songs of hers, in fact.
- Petite Pride: She seems to flaunt her small-breasted state quite all the time by often wearing male garments.
- Punctuation Shaker: The latest iterations of her name have an apostrophe between "Luci" and "fer" (Luci'fer). Initially, that wasn't the case, but it still has the same pronunciation as the name "Lucifer". Some variations write her last name as either "Violenoué" or "Violenoúe", presumably to look more exotic.
- Something about a Rose: Roses are a reoccurring motif for LUCI'FER.
- Spoken Word: Related to Narrative Poem, where she would switch from singing to speaking.
- The Unpronounceable: "Violenoue" is either pronounced 'viola-new' or 'viola-nu'. Whichever you prefer.
- Visual Kei: Often cited as a very underground example of such.
