
Also known as Yoshiki Hayashi
Japanese musician
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known by the mononym Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known as 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…
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Leader of the Japanese Heavy metal/Speed metal/visual-kei group X Japan (Before 1992 known as X), Yoshiki also uses his remarkable talents as a composer and pianist to produce contemporary classical. At Otakon 2006, Yoshiki announced that he would be founding a new 'super-band' named S.K.I.N. with the solo singer Gackt, Ex-LUNA SEA member Sugizo, and 雅-miyavi-. The collective performed for the first time on June 27, 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Los Angeles, California during Anim
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