Yoshiki

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshiki
Occupation	Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Nov 20, 1965(1965-11-20)
Age	59
Birthplace	Tateyama
Country	Japan
Birth City	Chiba Prefecture
Horoscope	Scorpio

Yoshiki Biography

Yoshiki is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on November 20, 1965 in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Co- founder, drummer and pianist of the band X Japan. They achieved major success in the 1980s.

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Yoshiki Hayashi (Japanese: 林 佳樹 , Hepburn: Hayashi Yoshiki, born November 20, 1965) , known by the mononym Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known as the leader and a co-founder of the visual kei rock band X Japan, for which he is the drummer, pianist and main songwriter. Yoshiki’s solo career includes two classical studio albums—Eternal Melody (1993), produced by George Martin, and Eternal Melody II (2005)—and the classical compilation Yoshiki Classical (2013). Described by Billboard as a “musical innovator” and named “one of the most influential composers in Japanese history” by Consequence of Sound, Yoshiki has also collaborated and played with artists such as Bono, will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, Stan Lee, Roger Taylor, Gene Simmons and KISS, and Sarah Brightman.

When asked what the albums were the most influential for him, Yoshiki named Alive! by Kiss, Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin, and Killers by Iron Maiden. Yoshiki stated he loved “the punkish elements” of the albums by Iron Maiden and that their work got him into punk rock. He was into punk rock bands from the United Kingdom and Japan such as The Exploited, Chaos UK, Discharge, GISM, and Gauze around 1984. He also cited the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and G.B.H. as his favorite bands.

Two younger brothers are his. His father was a jazz pianist.

Yoshiki Net Worth

Yoshiki is one of the richest Songwriter from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yoshiki 's net worth $50 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At the age of four, he began piano lessons and started writing songs for the piano at the age of ten.

He composed the original music theme for the 69th Golden Globe Awards.

Yoshiki was born on November 20, 1965 in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, as the elder of two brothers in a musically oriented family. His father was a tap dancer and jazz pianist, his mother played the shamisen, while his aunt played the koto. He began taking piano lessons and music theory at age four. He then became interested in classical works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. In elementary school, he played the trumpet in the brass band, and around age ten started composing songs for piano. This period was a decisive point in his life. He was 10 years old when his father committed suicide; he found relief in rock music. After discovering the music of American hard rock band Kiss, he started learning to play drums and guitar. Yoshiki was also influenced by works from Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Queen, The Beatles, Charged GBH and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Soon with his childhood friend Toshi formed a band called Dynamite in 1977. Dynamite changed its name to Noise a year later.

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That same year he began his first solo activities outside X. Collaborating with Tetsuya Komuro for the rock unit V2, with a concert on December 5 at the Tokyo Bay NK Hall and the single “Haitoku no Hitomi ~Eyes of Venus~/Virginity” (背徳の瞳〜Eyes of Venus〜) in January 1992, which reached number two on the chart. On December 12, Yoshiki released his first album, the classical compilation Yoshiki Selection, which includes classical works, and its sequel followed six years later.

Facts & Trivia

Yoshiki Ranked on the list of most popular Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yoshiki celebrates birthday on November 20 of every year.

In 1994, Yoshiki worked with Queen drummer Roger Taylor on a song he composed, “Foreign Sand”, for which Roger wrote the lyrics. They performed the song at The Great Music Experience event in May, partly backed by Unesco, which featured many other Japanese and Western musicians. The single was released in June, and reached the top fifteen in Japan, and 26th in the UK. That same month, the Kiss tribute album Kiss My Ass was released, for which Yoshiki contributed an orchestral arrangement of “Black Diamond” played by the American Symphony Orchestra.