Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Akira Kajiyama, Akira Takasaki, Die (musician), Hide (musician), Hizaki, Jun Senoue, Kaoru (musician), Karyu, Kyoji Yamamoto, Luke Takamura, Mana (musician), Pata (musician), Ryo Kawakita, Sugizo, Syu, Teru (guitarist), Yoshikazu Yahiro, Yuji Adachi, Yuto Miyazawa. Excerpt: Yasuhiro Sugihara Sugihara Yasuhiro), born Y ne Sugihara Sugihara Y ne, on July 8, 1969 in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan), is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Known exclusively by his stage name Sugizo, he is best known as lead guitarist and violinist of the rock band Luna Sea. He started his solo career in 1997 and has since collaborated with many artists. In 2007 he became a member of the trance/world music act Juno Reactor, and in 2009 officially joined the heavy metal band X Japan. In addition to being known to experiment with many musical genres, mostly rock, psychedelic and electronica, he is known for his political ideas and views, being an anti-war, anti-nuclear and environmental activist. Y ne Sugihara was born on July 8, 1969, to a musical family, in Hadano, Kanagawa, in Japan. His father, who is Japanese-Chinese, played trumpet in the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, who is Japanese-German played cello in the same orchestra. From a young age, he was brought up on classical music and had to study classical music theory. At the age of three, he was forced by his father to learn to play the violin. At that time it was quite a difficult period for him, his father forced him to practice violin for 3 hours per day, and being unable to find the right type of music or composer, he would usually cry while continuing to play. During this period he began to hate music, and coercion from his parents aggravated such feeling of repulsion. The situation persisted until the age of ten, when he was again able to enjoy music; his early favorite composers included Ludwig van Beethoven, Bela Bartok, and J.S. Bach. When Sugizo was eleven or twelve years old, around the beginning of junior high school, he began to play the trumpet. As he became a more rebellious and delinquent child, he preferred the trumpets "dirty" image more, as it was during the 1950s and through to the 1970s, in comparison with the violin, which was seen as some