Marty Friedman
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American guitarist
OverviewAI-generated
Marty Friedman is a male musician from Japan whose career began in 1978. He is associated with the genres of hard rock, heavy metal, and instrumental rock. His musical style has been described by listeners as featuring guitar virtuosity and metal elements.
Friedman has authored five works, including *Dreaming Japanese*, *Ījan J-POP*, *Marty Friedman - Exotic Metal Guitar*, *Wall of sound*, and *Melodic Control*. He maintains an official website and has accumulated 76,330 social media followers. On Last.fm, his music has been played 3,689,339 times by 178,946 listeners.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1962-12-08 ) December 8, 1962 (age 63) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Genres
- Heavy metal thrash metal speed metal hard rock instrumental rock neoclassical metal
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instrument
- Guitar
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Labels
- Avex Trax Gokukara Shrapnel Prosthetic Universal EMI
- Formerly of
- Hawaii Cacophony Megadeth
- Spouse
- Hiyori Okuda (m. 2012)
- Website
- martyfriedman .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Friedman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- progressive metal
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Official website
- www.martyfriedman.com
- Image
- Marty Friedman in Tokyo--2009-03.jpg
- Residence
- Shinjuku
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- Commons category
- Marty Friedman
- date of birth
- 1962-12-08
- member of
- Cacophony
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- social media followers
- 76330
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Encyclopedic overview
Martin Adam Friedman (Japanese: マーティン・アダム・フリードマン, Hepburn: Mātin Adamu Furīdoman) is an American guitarist, best known for his tenure as the lead guitarist of thrash metal band Megadeth from 1990 to 2000. He is also known for playing alongside Jason Becker in Cacophony from 1986 until 1989, as well as his 13 solo albums and tours. Friedman has resided in Tokyo since 2003, where he has appeared on over 700 Japanese television programs such as Rock Fujiyama, Hebimeta-san, Kōhaku Uta Gassen and Jukebox English. He has released albums with several record labels, including Avex Trax, Universal, EMI, Prosthetic, and Shrapnel Records.
Early career (1982–1989)
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