|
Yoshiki is a Japanese musician. He was most renowned as a founding member of the former band X Japan. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Wikicities has a wiki related to this article: Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide: includes a comprehensive and flexible Genre and Style system MusicWiki: A Collaborative Music-related...
X Japan, or X which was their initial name, was a Japanese Visual kei band, the brainchild of Yoshiki (Yoshiki Hayashi). ...
Biography Yoshiki Hayashi (born November 20, 1965) was born in Chiba, Japan. He started playing the piano at the age of 4. His mother was a piano teacher and taught him herself. When Yoshiki was ten years old his father committed suicide. This tragedy and the ensuing trauma threw Yoshiki completely into his music. He grew out long hair and took up playing the drums to release his anger and pain. A great fan of Western bands, particularly KISS, while in middle school Yoshiki came to enlist childhood friend Toshimitsu Deyama as a member of his rock band X. A handful of other members came and went, but in 1985 the lineup finally emerged with Yoshiki on drums and piano, Toshi on vocals, Hideto Matsumoto (nickname hide, always in lowercase) on guitar, Tomoaki Ishizuka (Pata) on guitar, and Taiji Sawada on bass. November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Chiba (千葉市 Chiba-shi) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. ...
This article is about the modern musical instrument. ...
Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ...
The Kiss by Francesco Hayez A kiss (from Old English cyssan to kiss, in turn from coss a kiss, perhaps onomatopoeic) is the touching of the lips to some other thing; usually another person. ...
hide as seen near the end of his career, with his trademark pink hair Hideto Matsumoto (松本 秀人 Matsumoto Hideto, December 13, 1964 - May 2, 1998), or hide (always spelled with lowercase h and pronounced hee-day), was a Visual kei Japanese rock musician. ...
Tomoaki Ishizuka, better known as Pata was a guitarist for the legendary japanese rock band X Japan. ...
Taiji Sawada (?-) was the bass guitar player of the phenomenal Japanese Visual Band X Japan. ...
In 1986 Yoshiki's mother sold her business to promote the band, whose music was too angry and aggressive for an existing label to support, so they started their own lable called Extasy Records. By 1987 the band was taking off, with the hit singles Orgasm and I'll Kill You, and next year their first album Vanishing Vision. On September 1, 1989 the bands song Kurenai placed 5th in its first week on the Oricon Charts. They were the first indies band to reach the chart. In 1992, the band changed its name from X to X Japan. The reason was so that people wouldn't get them confused with bands named X in Australia and Los Angeles, USA. At this time Taiji (bass) left the band and was replace with Heath. The band was reached its final and most well known line-up. Yoshiki also cut his long hair. Extasy Records is a record label in Japan created in the late 1980s by Yoshiki Hayashi (Yoshiki), founder of the Visual Kei rock group X Japan, financed by the money earned from his mother selling the family business. ...
X Japan, or X which was their initial name, was a Japanese Visual kei band, the brainchild of Yoshiki (Yoshiki Hayashi). ...
Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ...
In 1997, Toshi decided to leave the band. In September 1997 the band announced their dissolution and had their last concert at the Tokyo Dome in December of that year. After the band broke up Yoshiki and Toshi went their separate ways, and Yoshiki continued to run his company. X Japan left the stage as Japan's most influential and imitated band ever.
Even during the throes of X Japan's wild popularity, he managed to scout out and promote other Japanese rock bands of notable worth (e.g. Luna Sea, Dir en grey); therefore, with the role of "musician" so suddenly retired, Yoshiki was able to focus and hone his efforts as a producer. After the sudden death of hide in 1998, Yoshiki fell into a great depression, and vowed never to play the drums again. He moved to Los Angeles and stayed out of the public for 2 years. In 2000, he opened up Extasy Records International and Extasy Records North (a recording studio) up in Hollywood, California. He considered a memorial concert for hide to be done in 2002, but cancelled due to it being too 'commercial'. By then Yoshiki was at work once more, this time to finalize a private project called "Violet UK", on which he had been hatching for 10 years. "Violet UK" is scheduled to be released on the 22th of September, 2005, the 8-year anniverary of the disbanding of X-Japan. LUNA SEA was a significantly popular Japanese Visual Rock band of the 1990s. ...
Dir en grey is a modern Japanese rock band. ...
Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...
State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...
2002 also saw Yoshiki's return to the pop music scene by joining the Japanese pop band globe (always in lowercase), in which he still is a member. Since then he has collaborated with other famous musicians, including George Martin producer of The Beatles and Roger Taylor of Queen, and expressed his creativity through various avenues. He has shook hands with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during campaign season, who claims to be a huge fan of X Japan. J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop and refers to Japanese popular music. ...
globe is a Japanese pop band. ...
For the author, see George R. R. Martin. ...
The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show during their first United States tour, promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...
Roger Taylor - Queen. ...
The word Queen may have many meanings: Political A queen regnant is a female monarch. ...
A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives...
Junichiro Koizumi Junichiro Koizumi (小泉 純一郎 Koizumi Junichirō, born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician and the 87th, and current, Prime Minister of Japan. ...
Fans of Yoshiki may remember him most from his heavy visual days with X Japan, when his extreme personal style and effeminate dress was almost a literal representation of the Japanese bishounen aesthetic. He was then an enigmatic man who was just as easily a demon tearing up his drums as a gentle, living doll seated before a crystal piano; and while nowadays Yoshiki prefers to stand behind the curtains as a sophisticated businessman, he is no less busy in the music industry, and spends his time between Tokyo, Japan, and Los Angeles, California. Bishōnen (美少年. ...
Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō, lit. ...
Discography
Studio Albums - Eternal Melody II (2005/03/23)
Compilations by Various Artists - Kiss My Ass (1994/06/21)
- Hide Tribute Spirits (1999/05/01)
- Ai Chikyu-haku Presents Love The Earth (2005/03/30)
For his discography with X-Japan please see the page X-Japan. X Japan, or X which was their initial name, was a Japanese Visual kei band, the brainchild of Yoshiki (Yoshiki Hayashi). ...
For his discography with globe please see the page globe. globe is a Japanese pop band. ...
Multimedia
DVDs - Symphonic Concert 2002 with Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra featuring VIOLET UK (2005/03/30)
Links - Official Site: Yoshiki.net (http://www.yoshiki.net)
- Yoshikinet.com: Yoshikinet (http://www.yoshikinet.com)
|
Feeds |
Contact