Masakazu Yoshizawa

Quick Facts

Full Name	Masakazu Yoshizawa
Occupation	Flute Player
Date Of Birth	Sep 10, 1950(1950-09-10)
Age	74
Date Of Death	2007-10-24
Birthplace	Hida
Country	Japan
Birth City	Gifu Prefecture
Horoscope	Virgo

Masakazu Yoshizawa Biography

Masakazu Yoshizawa is one of the most popular and richest Flute Player who was born on September 10, 1950 in Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Japanese American flautist who mastered the bamboo flute. He has also been a student in the traditional Japanese musical instruments and music.

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Masakazu Yoshizawa (吉沢 政和 , September 10, 1950 – October 24, 2007) was a Japanese American flutist and musician, known for his mastery of the bamboo flute, specifically the shakuhachi. Yoshizawa also mastered several other traditional Japanese flutes, in addition to other Japanese and Western musical instruments. He was also considered a scholar of ancient and modern Japanese traditional music. Yoshizawa’s work and music were featured in a number of major Hollywood studio films and soundtracks, including The Joy Luck Club and Memoirs of a Geisha.

Yoshizawa moved from Japan to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. He initially worked as a musician, often as a clarinet and saxophone player. He also worked as a sushi chef. However, when he was specifically requested to play the shakuhachi for a certain job, it sparked his interest in the instrument, as well as in Japanese music.

The father had two daughters as well as an infant son, but he was divorced.

Masakazu Yoshizawa Net Worth

Masakazu Yoshizawa is one of the richest Flute Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Masakazu Yoshizawa 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began playing the accordion at nine years old. He later began to pursue the piano, various woodwinds along with the shakuhach.

He was in the soundtrack of the Oscar Award-nominated film Memoirs of a Geisha.

Masakazu Yoshizawa was born on September 10, 1950, in Hida, Gifu, Japan. His mother was the only obstetrician in their village and his father was a veterinarian. Yoshizawa was required to play a musical instrument in his elementary school. He began playing the accordion when he was 9 years old, and soon moved to the piano, several woodwinds and the shakuhachi, which he was to become world-famous for playing.

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Yoshizawa returned to Japan to take shakuhachi lessons before moving back to California. He began to be hired as a shakuhachi player for film and television, which quickly converted his passion for Japanese music into a full-fledged career. Yoshizawa explained the interest that film and television producers had in his music in a 2005 interview with the Cultural News, a web site that focuses on Japan-themed films: “they wanted a sound that Western music didn’t have . . . that was new and fit the film.”

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Masakazu Ranked on the list of most popular Flute Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Masakazu Yoshizawa celebrates birthday on September 10 of every year.