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SUGIZO

Rock music

Experimental rock

Psychedelic rock

Sugizo is a longtime leader of the visual kei movement in Japan, having performed with Luna Sea since 1989 and X Japan — one of the best-selling rock acts in Japanese history — in 2009. He was born as "Yasuhiro Sugihara" on July 8, 1969, in Hadano, Japan. His parents were professional musicians in the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and they encouraged their son to become a classically-trained instrumentalist at a young age. Sugizo soon moved away from his classical training, though, and launched the alternative rock band Luna Sea as a teenager. Although the group's 1991 d...