| Yoshiki |
| -Leader & Founder - Drummer - Pianist - Mad Compositor - |
| Name: Yoshiki Hayashi |
| Birthday: November 20th, 1965 |
| Birth Place: Chiba, Japan |
| Signe: Scorpio |
| ~ Know him better.... |
| ~ Yoshiki is the founding member of X Japan. ~ His mother happened to be a piano teacher, Yoshiki began to learn piano at the age of 5. ~ Toshi (singer) and Yoshiki are friends since kindergarden. ~ At the age of 10, Yoshiki found his father dead body which has commited suicide due to some financial problems, age : 33. ~ Unlike Toshi, Yoshiki was what we could called a 'problem-kid'. He causes trouble around school and gets bad grades. ~ The only thing that would interest Yoshiki at school was his languages classes. Actually, he speaks english, cantonese, mandarin and japenese pretty well. ~ The 'emotional' Yoshiki is well known as much as for his 'tears-storms' than for his excessive drunking. ~ Yoshiki is also in the 'Top 5 stars who have done most damages in a hotel room', with 60 000$ in ONE night only. ~ At first, no one wanted to record X, so Yoshiki created his own label, EXTASY RECORDS. ~ Mrs. Hayashi, always supporting her son in what he does, sold the family business and gave Yoshiki all the money. ~ During concerts, when X is playing a song with drums and piano in the same time, Yoshiki pre-record one of the instrument, concentring himself on the other one. ~ Because of his intensity when he's playing drums, he broke his neck once and his wrists several times. ~ After X dissolution in 1997 and hide's death in 1998, Yoshiki, very shocked, swore he would never touch a drum set ever... trying to forget a painful past. ~ Recently, he said again that he hasn't enterly accepted the prematurate separetion of X yet, and still cannot look at hide's pictures. ~ He actually lives in Los Angeles as a producer. His EXTASY RECORDS company is successful and it helps starting j-rock bands to be heard. ~ One time a year, Yoshiki's travelling to Japan to have a diner with his mother. ~ He has recorded lots of solo projects (mostly instumental and orchestral) he also performed for the emperor of Japan on his birthday, where he plays 'Anniversary'. ~ Now, Yoshiki's producing the j-rock band Dir en Grey and many others. |
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