Sugizo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sugizo
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1969(1969-07-08)
Age	55
Birthplace	Hadano
Country	Japan
Birth City	Kanagawa Prefecture
Horoscope	Cancer

Sugizo Biography

Sugizo is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on July 8, 1969 in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Japanese musician, singer and songwriter who was part the group Luna Sea, but who also pursued a solo career.

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Yūne Sugihara was born on July 8, 1969, in Hadano, Kanagawa, in Japan. His father played trumpet in the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and his mother played cello in the same orchestra. He also has a younger sister. From a young age, Sugizo was brought up on classical music and studied classical music theory. At the age of three, by his father’s initiative, he 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 his feeling of repulsion. The situation persisted until the age of ten. His early favorite composers included Beethoven, Bartók, Liszt and J.S. Bach.

Yūne Sugihara (Japanese: 杉原 有音 , Hepburn: Sugihara Yūne) , born Yasuhiro Sugihara (Japanese: 杉原 康弘 , Hepburn: Sugihara Yasuhiro, on July 8, 1969 in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan) , better known by his stage name Sugizo, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He is the lead guitarist and violinist of the rock band Luna Sea since 1989.

Both of his parents were musicians, so they encouraged him to play and study music from the age of three.

Sugizo Net Worth

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

He was educated in formal ways in the trumpet and violin However, he was required to learn to play the guitar as his parents didn’t approve.

His full name is Yasuhiro Sugihara.

When Sugizo was eleven or twelve years old, he began to play the trumpet. He preferred the trumpet’s “dirty” image from the 1950s through the 1970s over playing the violin, which was seen as something for higher-class people. During his junior high school days, he became exposed to non-classical music types, such as the Japanese synthpop group Yellow Magic Orchestra, the British new wave group Japan, David Bowie’s glam rock, and the London punk scene, forming his attraction to rock’n’roll. Sugizo’s parents divorced when he was in high school, and his father moved out. He has a good relationship with his mother and has since reconciled with his father, who has another family.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Sugizo height 5 ft 9 in Sugizo weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Sugizo Dating?

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Sugizo started his solo career in 1997 and has since collaborated with a variety of different artists. In 2007 he became a member of the international trance/world music act Juno Reactor, and of the Japanese rock supergroup S.K.I.N., and in 2009 officially joined the rock band X Japan. He was also part of the psychedelic jam band Shag and the shamanic electronica unit S.T.K (Sensual Technology Kooks).

Facts & Trivia

Sugizo Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Sugizo celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

In 2001, Sugizo participated in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s N.M.L. (“No More Landmines”), a campaign to promote awareness of the problems of land mines and promote a ban on them, and helped in the making of the album Zero Landmine. In 2007, he participated in the project Stop Rokkasho, run by the Japanese NGO Boomerang Net and headed up by Sakamoto, created to bring attention to the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture. His interest in environmental issues led to attend many environmental events. In 2007, Sugizo became involved with Greenpeace, specifically regarding the whaling in Japan. He gave a name to one humpback whale (Lyra) and followed the Great Whale Trail. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Sugizo continued to yearly volunteer and offer educational assistance to the locals of Ishinomaki and Minamisōma among others.