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SUGIZO
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...
