Yoshiki (musician)
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Yoshiki Hayashi, known mononymously as Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, film director, and fashion designer. He is best known as the leader of the visual kei roc
Yoshiki at his drum kit during a 2011 X Japan concert in São Paulo, after the band's reunion in 2007
Yoshiki performing at Japan Expo in 2010
Yoshiki playing the piano at the Grammy Museum in 2013
Yoshiki performing in London at the Hyper Japan Festival, 2015
Visual kei
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Visual kei, abbreviated v-kei, is a subculture and category of Japanese musicians that have a strong focus on extravagant stage costumes that originated in Japan during the early 1980s. Koji Dejima of
Yoshiki (musician)
…as Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, film director, and fashion designer. He is best known as the leader of the visual kei rock bands X Japan and the Last Rockstars, for which he is the drummer, pianist, and main songwriter. He has been described by Billboard as a "musical…
Originally a visual kei band, Glay went on to become one of the best-selling musical acts in Japan.
Versailles performing in 2010, wearing costumes inspired by the French Rococo style
Luna Sea in Singapore, 2013
Many visual kei musicians utilize androgyny or cross-dressing in their aesthetics, such as Mana.