Sugizo

About

Yūne "Sugizo" Sugihara, born July 8 1969 in Hadano as 杉原 康弘 (Sugihara Yasuhiro), is a Japanese guitarist, violinist, singer-songwriter and producer. He debuted in 1989 with the band [a=Luna Sea]. After Luna Sea went on a break from 1997 to 1998, Sugizo started his own solo project and opened the independent labels [l=Cross (4)] and [l=Embryo (3)] to produce other artists and bands. After Luna Sea disbanded in December 2000, Sugizo remained mostly active as a solo artist and played in several session projects like SHAG, S.T.K. and Sugizo & The Spank Your Juice. From 2004 to 2006 he has been member of the band The Flare. After The Flare disbanded Sugizo revamped his solo project, opened a new label called [l=Sephirot] and joined the English project [a=Juno Reactor]. He is also a member of the Japanese supergroup S.K.I.N. since December 2006. In 2008 Sugizo started working as a session guitarist of [a=X Japan], and eventually became an official member in May 2009. In 2010, LUNA SEA announced their complete revival through press conference in Hong Kong.