Hyde (singer)

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hyde; photoshoot for pati pati magazine vol.227

HYDE (Pronounced in Japanese: hai-do, or in English as "Hide", born January 29, 1969 as Hideto Takarai, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese singer in the rock band L'Arc~en~Ciel. Since Hyde keeps his personal information secret, much about him is either unknown or unofficial. He has been in the music industry for more than 10 years.

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Career

In addition to being lead singer and main lyricist of L'Arc~en~Ciel, Hyde has worked on a self-titled solo project as well, and even has his own record label, Haunted Records.

In 2003, Hyde starred alongside Gackt (another popular figure in Japanese music), in the Japanese film Moon Child. In a duet as part of the project, Hyde and Gackt sang "オレンジの太陽" ("Orenji no Taiyou", or "Orange Sun"). The song was also released on Gackt's fourth full-length album, Crescent. In December of 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.

hyde; in the role of Adam (2004)

2004; Hyde took on the role of the guitarist Adam in the movie 下弦の月 (kagen no tsuki), a movie based on the popular manga by Ai Yazawa. The movie's theme song, THE CAPE OF STORMS, came from his first album Roentgen.

In the summer of 2005, Hyde composed the music for the song GLAMOROUS SKY, used in the movie NANA, another film based on a popular 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 5th 2005, with a tracklisting 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).

Later that month, Hyde hosted HALLOWEEN OF THE LIVING DEAD, a three-night event held at CLUB CITTA on October 29th, 30th & 31st. Each night featured performances by Hyde himself, a guest artist/band and JACK-O-LANTERN. Artists/bands who took part in the Halloween performances are MONORAL, UVERworld, OLIVIA, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, & Mika Nakashima. The group JACK-O-LANTERN consisted of Hyde and the group MONORAL playing many Halloween favorites such as ghostbusters.


Starting the new year of 2006 (January), Hyde's single Season's Call will be used as an opening theme to the anime show Blood+. This single is to be released 2006.02.22.

His new album, "FAITH," is scheduled to be released on April 4th, 2006.

Profile

  • Hyde keeps much of his personal information secret, including his real name and birth date.
  • When Hyde was a child, he used to wear feminine colors because his mother wanted a daughter. He wore a red backpack, which in Japan is classified as feminine as opposed to blue backpacks.
  • He is the only child in his family.
  • When he was younger, his father made him learn martial arts because he was rather weak and shy.
  • He once took breakdancing lessons.
  • He was the guitarist in the band Jelsarem's Rod before joining L'Arc as the vocalist (he also originally wanted to be guitarist of L'Arc).
  • He married Megumi Oishi on December 25, 2000. He has stated that he had always admired Oishi and that she has a beautiful face. Hyde was introduced to Megumi on the Japanese music variety show Utaban. They have one child, who was recently revealed to be a boy.
  • He originally wanted to become a cartoonist, but is colour blind (though only partially - he suffers from red/green colour-blindness, so he cannot distinguish subtle colors like pink and light blue).
  • He has a big appetite and loves to eat curry.
  • His favorite brand of cigarettes is Mild Seven.
  • He likes to collect blue glass products.
  • One of his trademark accessories is a Lucifer ring (silver ring with a large stone - he has red, yellow and black versions - on which is inscribed a pentagram) which he had personally crafted for him by Alex Streeter of New York.
  • One of his other trademark accessories is a barbed wire necklace. He often wore it during performances and photoshoots, though in recent years he seems to have abandoned it.

Discography

Albums

Singles

External links

Fan Site

Other Wiki entries

References

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