Skin (Japanese band)
| S.K.I.N. | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Japan / United States |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 2007 |
| Associated acts |
X Japan, Malice Mizer, Luna Sea, Dué le Quartz |
| Members |
Yoshiki Gackt Sugizo Miyavi |
Skin (stylized as S.K.I.N.) is a music project founded by several Japanese rock musicians in 2007. They are Yoshiki, Gackt, Sugizo and Miyavi, all being important to the visual kei movement or closely related to it, but each being from a different generation. Its debut performance was on June 29, 2007, in Long Beach, California, considered as the "Japanese rock concert of the century". Although they had announced more activities, such as a live tour and releasing a record, all activities were suddenly stopped. The future of the project still remains unclear.
The origin of the project dates back to when Yoshiki invited Gackt to his Los Angeles mansion in 2002, where decided to produce some music together in the future.
The project was publicly announced in July 2006 at an Otakon conference where Yoshiki as a guest said, he would be starting a band with Gackt. He announced how the group would be composed of five members, and they're going to produce a recording with a live tour in 2007. In December of the same year, it was announced that Sugizo would be the third member and the first guitarist of the group. And then at the first "JRock Revolution Festival" on May 25, 2007, organized by Yoshiki, he officially announced that Miyavi would be the fourth member and second guitarist, and that Skin would be having its debut performance on June 29, 2007 at the anime expo in Long Beach. Yoshiki confirmed that the group was planning to release an album and that rough recordings of seven or eight songs were made in March 2007. With the well known members the band is considered a supergroup, causing their concert to be called the "Japanese rock concert of the century". Both Gackt and Yoshiki said that they want to be the first Asian band to conquer the world charts, beginning with America. Leading a rock revolution and starting a new era of rock and roll, by opening the market for Japanese in the Western music industry.
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