He joined L'Arc~en~Ciel in 1998, taking over the former drummer, Sakura. yukihiro is very skinny (it has been reported his weight is only 48 kg) . He composed a few songs for L'Arc~en~Ciel, including "trick", "cradle", "Revelation", "New World" and "Drink It Down".
He is also known for his remixing works of the band, and released the remix album, "ectomorphed works" in 2000. He had been a member of some other Japanese rock bands, including Die in Cries and Zi:Kill.
Yukihiro was born on November 24, 1968 in Chiba, near Tokyo. His father is a company worker, and his mother is a kimono-wearing instructor. He has a younger sister. Yukihiro has stated that he had as ordinary a childhood as any other Japanese kid, never questioning his destined path of going to school, graduating to a university, and ultimately becoming a white-collar salaryman. But he loved music, both Japanese and American, from Heavy metal to Pop music. He was also a good short-track athlete in junior high school. However, he was kicked out from his athletics club for his sabotaging of daily training.
When he entered high school, he started to play the drums and immediately decided to be a professional rock drummer. Once he made the decision, he told his parents that he was leaving school because it was of no use to him. His parents forbade this. Thus, he continued his education while devoting himself mostly to rock music.
During his university days (he left The Chiba University of Commerce), he joined Zi:Kill, one of the rising Japanese rock groups at that time.
Zi:Kill signed a recording contract with Extasy Records in 1989. However, they turned into a quarrel during the first album recording outside Japan. Finally, yukihiro was fired there. After that, he formed the band named Optic Nerve with guitarist Shin Murohime. In 1991, he joined Die in Cries.
Die in Cries released their debut album, "Nothing to Revolution" in 1991. They became popular among Japanese rock fandom, and they succeeded the performance live in Nippon Budokan in 1994. However, yukihiro became frustrated with the strict band policy. Later, he stated that Die in Cries was caught in the "heavy metal" manner which was made by themselves, especially, lead singer KYO. yukihiro wrote some songs for the band, but they were rejected because of unlikely style for "heavy metal rule". Some of these songs, "trick" and "L'heure" later have been recorded under L'Arc~en~Ciel in 1999.
Die in Cries broke up in 1995, with their last album 'SEED'. For a while, yukihiro worked as free-lance drummer. During that time, he had no home and moved around his friends. tetsu stated it was so hard to catch yukihiro then, because he had no mobile phone and always relocated among the friends.
When it was announced that the former L'Arc drummer Sakura quit the band in 1997, tetsu, the leader of the band, asked yukihiro to help record the new single, via their common friends. During that time, they had a good chemistry between them. His unique rhythm track was accepted in the song. When their first come-back single "Niji(虹)" was released and did the comeback concert "Reincarnation in Tokyo Dome", yukihiro was still a support member. It is in 1998 when the band announced yukihiro as official member with the new single "winter fall", followed by the album "HEART".
Despite of some arguments from sakura's fans, yukihiro quickly got acclimatized to L'Arc. His first song, "a swell in the sun", was played as a prologue during the 1998 tour ハートに火をつけろ！Light My Fire. L'Arc~en~Ciel became one of the most popular bands, that which all of them have never expected. The hall tour was sold out, the album got platinum disk. The band rushed to release the seven new singles and hit the top 10 charts, every month.
On July 1, 1999, they released their sixth and seventh albums "ark" and "ray" on the same day. They began the a concert tour named the Grand-Cross Tour. The album hit the top two ranks, and the tour was huge success.
In 2000, they released new album, "Real". yukihiro wrote "get out from the shell-English version", while "Japanese version" was c/w of "STAY AWAY". However,L'Arc~en~Ciel had stopped their project until 2003,"Shibuya Seven Days" concert. Each member started their solo projects. yukihiro also started his solo project, Acid Android. He sang as a lead singer, firstly.
The band came back with the new single "READY STEADY GO!" and album "SMILE" after the three year hiatus in 2004, then following up with the album "AWAKE" and single "Link" in 2005. As of 2007, L'Arc~en~Ciel have released a new single called "My heart draws a dream" and a new album "KISS." The group also planned to release the single "Drink It Down" for January 2008, with the music composed by Yukihiro himself.
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Hyde (January 29, 1969, in Wakayama, Japan) is the singer for the Japanese rock band L'Arc~en~Ciel. Hyde keeps his personal information secret. He confirmed his birthdate in an interview for the 2002 March issue of Rockin On Japan. [1] He joined L'Arc~en~Ciel in 1991 after leaving another band called Jerusalem's Rod where he was the guitarist.
In addition to being the lead singer and main lyricist of L'Arc~en~Ciel, Hyde has solo projects, as well as his own record label under Sony Japan called Haunted Records. He is well known for his unique voice, which changes from husky to soft, grunge rock to falsetto.
After L'Arc~en~Ciel released the single, "Spirit dreams inside" in 2000, the band went on an unofficial hiatus as each of the members began work on solo careers. This was Hyde's debut as a solo artist. In October 2001, Hyde released his first solo single, "Evergreen." After two more singles, "Angel's Tale" and "Shallow Sleep," Hyde released his first solo album, Roentgen, on March 27, 2002. An overseas edition featuring English lyrics was released in July the same year. Hyde's next two singles, "Hello" and "Horizon," were released June and November 2003 respectively, and second solo album, 666, was released on December 3, 2003.
In 2003, Hyde starred alongside Gackt in the Japanese film Moon Child. In a duet as part of the project, Hyde and Gackt sang "Orenji no taiyou", and when sang live, Hyde could not be there because he was on a music tour. The song was also released on Gackt's fourth full-length album, Crescent. In December 2003, Hyde's song "Shining Over You" from his 666 album was used as the commercial song for Namco's Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean.
In 2004, Hyde took on the role of the guitarist Adam in the movie Kagen no tsuki/下弦の月 (Last Quarter), a movie based on the manga by Ai Yazawa. The movie's theme song, "The Cape of Storms", came from Roentgen. On December 25, 2000 Hyde married model/singer/newsreporter Megumi Oishi and she gave birth to their son on November 11, 2003.
After a three-year hiatus, L'Arc~en~Ciel reunited for a series of seven concerts titled "Shibuya Seven Days" in June and July 2003. At the conclusion, they announced a new album, Smile, which was released in March, 2004.
In the summer of 2004, L'Arc~en~Ciel had their North American debut (as part of their Smile tour) in Baltimore, Maryland, at Otakon.
L'Arc~en~Ciel's next album, Awake, was released in June 2005. It was accompanied by a Japanese Awake tour in August the same year. A second, larger tour titled Asia Live 2005 was held shortly thereafter. The single "Link" was released in July 2005.
In the summer of 2005, Hyde composed the music for the song "Glamorous Sky." The song was used in the movie Nana, another film based on a manga by Ai Yazawa. The song was sung by fellow Japanese artist Mika Nakashima and the lyrics were written by Ai Yazawa. In August, Hyde and his solo band performed the song on Music Station with Mika Nakashima, Hyde being on guitar.
The single "Countdown" was released on October 5 2005, with a track list including Japanese & English versions of the song "Countdown" made for the Japanese release of the movie Stealth and also a special rock version of "Evergreen" (originally from Roentgen).
A cover of the single "Countdown" was used as the "semifinal" stage in the Nintendo DS rhythm game Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2.
Later that month, Hyde hosted Halloween of the Living Dead, a three-night event held at Club Citta on October 29, 30th & 31st. Each night featured performances by Hyde himself, a guest artist/band and Jack-O-Latern. Artists/bands who took part in the Halloween performances are Monoral, UVERworld, Olivia Lufkin, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, Yasu (of Janne Da Arc), & Mika Nakashima. The group Jack-O-Latern consisted of Hyde and the group Monoral playing many Halloween favorites such as the Ghostbusters theme.
Starting in January 2006, Hyde's single "Season's Call" was used as the second opening theme to the anime show Blood+. Which blew up the word of L'arc~en~ciel (Hydes band) This single was released on February 2, 2006. Hyde's album, Faith, was released on April 26, 2006.
Faith was accompanied by a five-month tour with many locations in Japan, some exclusively open to members of his fanclub.
After signing on with Tofu Records as a solo artist, a US debut concert was scheduled as part of the Faith tour, which was held at Slim's in San Francisco, California on July 5, 2006. Tickets for the event went on sale online at 1 p.m. EST on April 2, 2006 and sold out in three minutes. The second round of sales was held April 9, also online, and also sold out.
A second concert, held at House of Blues in Anaheim, California, on July 2 was added and tickets were sold out, as were two more US concerts (the Fillmore, San Francisco and House of Blues, Hollywood).
The overseas version of Faith was released on June 27, 2006 and included a bonus DVD featuring music videos for both "Countdown" and "Season's Call". In Faith, Hyde uses a sunburst Fender Jaguar as his main guitar; contrary to 666 album version, where he uses Gretsch guitars.
Hyde also made a brief appearance at the Tofu Records booth at Anime Expo 2006 in Anaheim, California on July 1 for a question and answer panel.
Following the completion of the FAITH tour, a DVD of the concerts was announced and was released November 8, 2006.
Hyde returned to work with L'Arc~en~Ciel which on 31 May 2007 released their first single in two years, Seventh Heaven.
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Ken Kittamura
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First gaining immense popularity in L'Arc~en~Ciel as its crazy, but fun guitarist, then later on displaying his vocal ability in S.O.A.P., Ken is now trying the solo route like the other members of L'Arc~en~Ciel.
As we've previously heard, his voice is slightly gravelly but very well suited for the hard rock tunes he is fond of singing.
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Ken is best known to international fans as the guitarist of L'arc~en~Ciel, though he's recently decided to give a solo career a try after a long career as a guitarist, and occasionally vocalist, in other bands. He's displayed his composing ability in both L'arc~en~Ciel, crafting beautiful tunes such as Kasou to the darker shinshoku ~lose control~, and Sons of All Pussys (S.O.A.P. for short). This latter group, formed with drummer Sakura (ex. L'arc~en~Ciel) and bassist Ein displayed an entirely different musical sensibility than L'arc~en~Ciel, leaning towards a rocker hard sound overall.
S.O.A.P. was also a new experience for Ken as he performed as the frontman for the band, both playing guitar and singing. When L'arc~en~Ciel, who had gone on hiatus in 2001, started anew in 2004, S.O.A.P. was put on hold. Two years later, Ken decided to truly go solo as some of the other members of L'arc~en~Ciel had previously. In August of 2006, he debuted with the single Speed. In December, he participated for the first time as a solo artist in the annual festival put on by the DANGER CRUE label as well as as a member of S.O.A.P..
While Ken seems to have put his solo activities on hold in order to concentrate on the slew of activities that L'arc~en~Ciel is up to this year, fans are willing to wait patiently in order to see what this guitarist will bring them next.
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Tetsu
tetsu is the bassist and leader of the famous band L'Arc~en~Ciel.He started to play bass quite late.After high school he didn't attend university and started to do various job while playing.Finally in 1991 he formed L'Arc~en~Ciel,a band that in a short time will become one of the most famous band of Japan.
This legend almost ended some years later,when the drummer sakura was arrested for drug.Sony stopped all the L'Arc~en~Ciel's activities.Fortunately tetsu did his best and the band came back with a new drummer,yukihiro.Surely tetsu didn't forget what
happened,but his relationship with sakura doesn't seem so stormy as many people think.
In 2000 the album "REAL" was released and it had a tetsu's song,"bravery".Why I tell you this?'Cause the song is an attack to the fans who pretend to know them only watching what it's showed.In fact tetsu writes:"the feeling under those forced smiles will never show in a photograph...it's just a world you all made up...the truth will never be shared to anyone".
After 10 years dedicated to the band,in 2001 started his solo career,when L'Arc~en~Ciel stopped temporarily their activities.
He showed up with the name TETSU69(capitalized.In Laruku he's "tetsu" in lowercase)and he said many times the number 69 was only his date of birth(3rd October 1969).He built up also his own label called SPROUSE(the SPROUSE site is offline since about a couple of years)
His debut was on 18th July 2001,with a single containing two songs,"wonderful world" and "TIGHTROPE".Then,for more than a year,we hadn't anything new.We had to wait untill 28th August 2002,when we had his new work:it's the "shinkirou" single,realized only in a limited edition of 100.000 copies and with a t-shirts(orange or green figure).With the new single,TETSU69 changed his label:the first single was published by Ki/oon Records(Sony Japan),while this one was published by Dream Machine(Warner Music).
After few months,exactly on 23rd October,his third single "15 1/2 Fifteen Half" came out.Also this one was realized in a limited edition of 100.000 copies and with a model designed by TETSU69:his name was TEZMAN.To this character,TETSU69 dedicated also a song included in the single and called "TEZMAN no theme"(all in English). Finally on 20th November 2002,TETSU69 published his first album with the title Suite November.
Following his debut album,tv showed two special about TETSU69:"RUBICON" and a MTV special,dedicated to the making of the album.
At the end of 2002,TETSU69 held a concert called "Christmas Night Sweet December".
On 13th February 2003 came out a new single with the song "WHITE OUT ~memory of a color~",a new version of the song "WHITE OUT" of the album.Also this single had a little surprise:a baked pendant.
At the end of the year TETSU69 participated to Danger Crue event.In the meanwhile,L'Arc~en~Ciel restarted their activities and the only TETSU69 stuff was the 2004 calendar.
On 19th March 2004 was published a book called "tetsugaku" with some pics and 69 interviews really interesting.We had to wait again almost a year for having a new TETSU69 production:in December 2004 he participated again to Danger Crue eventand on 16th March 2005 we could listen to his new song "REVERSE".This song was published in the album "Love for NANA",a tribute of various artists to the NANA manga.
Since that date,TETSU69 didn't give anything new.
Meanwhile he's is busy again as leader and bassist of L'Arc~en~Ciel.Officially they come back in 2003 with the SHIBUYA SEVEN DAYS when they announce a new album,"SMILE" released in 2004.Immediately in June 2005,they release a new album,"AWAKE".
On 25th December 2005 Tetsu showed up at Danger IV with a new band:Creature Creature.The formation was:
Vocal:Morrie(ex DEAD END)
Bass:Tetsu
Guitar:Minoru(ex MAD CAPSULE MARKETS)
Morrie was the vocalist of DEAD END,the band tetsu loved when he was young.Creature Creature released 3 singles on 19th July 2006 and an album on 30th August.
The 2006 is also the year of celebrations for L'Arc~en~Ciel's 15th anniversary:a box,re-releases of 15 singles and two albums,the opening of L'Arcafe for a limited period(tetsu also went there at the beginning of August) and two concerts in TOKYO DOME on 25th and 26th November.During the last date,the band announce a new single and a three months tour in 2007.
Plus,tetsu starts again his solo work,simply with the name of "tetsu".At the end of November 2006 he opens his new site and announces a new single for Spring 2007.The song is used as theme of the program "SUPER SOCCER PLUS" starting on January 2007 and performed at DANGER V
On 14th March 2007 the single "Can't stop believing" is in store in two edition:CD only and CD+DVD
Main part of 2007 is dedicated to L'Arc~en~Ciel:a three months tour in summer,a new album and another tour at the end of the year.
In 2008 the band has its first concert in Europe,on May 9th in Paris.
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