Sugizo
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Sugizo performing with X Japan in São Paulo, Brazil 2011.
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| Birth name | Yasuhiro Sugihara (杉原 康弘?) |
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July 8, 1969 Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan |
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| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, violin |
| Years active | 1984–present |
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| Website | sugizo.com |
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Yūne Sugihara (杉原 有音 Sugihara Yūne?), born Yasuhiro Sugihara (杉原 康弘 Sugihara Yasuhiro?, on July 8, 1969 in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan), known exclusively by his stage name Sugizo, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He is best known as lead guitarist and violinist of the rock band Luna Sea. He started his solo career in 1997 and has since collaborated with many artists. In 2007 he became a member of the trance/world music act Juno Reactor, and of the Japanese rock supergroup S.K.I.N., and in 2009 officially joined the heavy metal band X Japan. In addition to being known to experiment with many musical genres, mostly rock, psychedelic and electronica, he is known for his political ideas and views, being an anti-war, anti-nuclear and environmental activist.
Yūne Sugihara was born on July 8, 1969, to a musical family, in Hadano, Kanagawa, in Japan. His father, who is Chinese of Japanese descent, played trumpet in the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, who is German of Japanese descent, played cello in the same orchestra. From a young age, he was brought up on classical music and had to study classical music theory. At the age of three, by his father initiative, started to learn to play the violin. He practiced it for 3 hours per day, but without the right type of music or composer, began to hate playing music, and coercion from his parents aggravated such feeling of repulsion. The situation persisted until the age of ten. His early favorite composers included Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók, and J.S. Bach.
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