Yoshiki

YOSHIKI HAYASHI

林 佳樹

Pronunciation : Yosh-ki




Genre : Visual Kei
Subgenre : Hard rock, Heavy Metal, Classic

Nationality : Japanese

Beginning : 1982
End : active

Record label : Extasy Records


Biography :

Yoshiki Hayashi was born in november, 20th 1965 in Chiba. He is a multi-instrumentalist. Indeed, he plays piano since the age of 4 years, drums since he was 10 years old and guitar. His inspiration and his great sensibility come mainly from the suicide of his father who deeply affected him, when he was a young.

His carrier began in 1982. He decided to create the band "X Japan" with his best friend, Toshi. He his the leader, drummer, pianist and composer.
In 1985, he became also producer. He created his own recording company, Extasy Records.

Then dissolution came for X Japan in 1997. Yoshiki and hide envisaged to reform it, but the death of this last made the abandonment of this project.

Saddened by the death of the one which he regarded as his brother, Yoshiki leaves to settle in Los Angeles to flee the media pressures where he devotes himself fully to the production.

Finally, it's into 2002 that Yoshiki made his return on the musical scene, with the creation of the Violet UK. He also launches himself in the composition of orchestral arrangements of songs of X Japan.

In 2006, Yoshiki again founds a group which he called S.K.I.N and then he reforms X Japan in 2007.



Links :

Official site : http://www.yoshiki.net/
Record label official site : http://www.extasyrecords.co.jp/jp/index.html
Official MySpace : http://www.myspace.com/yoshiki