some stuff i found on a website, i foudn it really interesting
Musical Carrier:
Kyo began his music career as a roadie for Kuroyume and Albatross (he was a great fan of Kiyoharu from Kuroyume). At the age of 17, Kyo joined his first band, Gesshoku. In this band he went by the nickname Yoma - this band was together in Kyoto for only half a year. He went by the nickname Hotoma when he joined his next band, Visun. Then he joined Masquerade. It was when he joined Haijin Kurobara Zoku that he met up with drummer, Shinya, and bassist, Kisaki. By this time, Kyo had changed to his current name. After that, La:Sadies was formed where Kyo, Shinya and Kisaki were joined by Die and Kaoru (guitars) later.
About Kyo:
He lived in Kyoto until he was around 19. He liked the place because of it's atmosphere of quietness and the temples there. His family ran a bread shop, so he eventually grew to hate the scent of bread :<
As a child, he liked to hop on his bike, and go search for new places to play, like parks and such. He played a lot with his friend, whose family had a lumberyard. They made a jungle gym from the logs, even built a fort at the top. They liked to climb around on the logs. Kyo once fell from this edifice, but luckily, he didn't hurt himself.
At this time, most of his friends were girls.
He used to go at his grandpa's house in Ishiyama to stay over. There were rice paddies there, and he would go play around there. They would go to the river and catch fish with a net, and eat them later. Kyo really liked eating these fishes.
He liked to play video games a lot. He got his first Famicom console when he was around 7 years old. He was also a big fan of action and sci-fi themed movies; movies like Superman. He watched shows like Goranger and Kikaider.
In Japan, new school students are persuaded to join a club. Kyo was in Shogi (Japanese chess) when he was in primary school; but he never went to the club events or meetings, so he could go home earlier.
He hated all his classes at school, he thought they are completely useless and playing outside for a kid is much more important. When he realized all his friends started studying, and he felt a bit left behind; so the first time in his life he felt the urge to study, and sat by his desk for 2 hours; but his dad told him it's still not enough, his motivation disappeared and he stopped studying altogether. He studied some Japanese and mathematics though, because he considered math basics and kanji writing useful.
Even at a young age he had a very strong will. He would not do what he doesn't want to do; but if there was something he wanted to do, he would do that whatever it took! He felt he's different from other people, and didn't wanted to be as other people either. He didn't study, because he felt it was unnecessary. He thought, if some years later, he's living under a bridge, that would be the result of his own actions. His sense of dissimilarity was very strong. And even though he get along with everyone well, he didn't had close friends. He couldn't make really close friendship with the though guys, because he hated violence, neither with the serious guys, because he hated studying. But he had a lot of girl friends to have fun with. No hentai stuff though, he just liked playing with girls >_<
His classmate had a Buck-Tick poster on her desk. When he first saw that poster, he thought, Atsushi Sakurai looked like an anime character. From that time on, he started listening to rock music. When he discovered X, he decided to be a musician, and gradually began to delve deeper into indies music. He listened every kind of music. He even dyed his hair to pink, and after that, he tried other colors too!
His parents always told him it's important to have dreams. And he only wanted to be in a band. He liked to listen to X because he liked their fast songs. He appreciated Hide playing the guitar, so first he put his poster in his room and bought a guitar. But soon he realized he couldn't suddenly be able to play X songs on it, so he gave up on that. He tried many different instruments too: like flute in elementary school, guitar and bass later, even the piano. When he decided to be in a band, he told his parents he won't go to high school which made his parents very angry. He dedicated his life to his vocalist career, so he can show his parents he can be somebody, not a useless person as his parents told him.
When he finished school, he began to work in different places. He would do the packaging and shipping of different kinds of frozen and refrigerated goods. He also made packaged lunches in a factory. He rarely worked more than a month though. He didn't even went back to get his payment!
Then he worked as a roadie for nearly 2 years. During this time, he learned what the world of J-Rock bands are, got to know a lot of people. He helped the band and learned hairstyling (how to make their hair stand upward), fixing and setting up different kinds of instruments. After the lives, he was made to drink with the staff, although he didn't like alcohol at all.
During his time as a roadie, he realized he wanted to be in a band, so he started to gather members. His first band consisted of a guitarist, a drummer and a bassist. He tried out himself as a vocalist for the first time. It didn't go very well at first, but he tried to do his best nevertheless.
He stated he writes the lyrics all for his sake. You can't always write about happiness and he doesn't have any interest in doing so. He thinks his lyrics can be the base everyone compares their bad experiences. So they can think to themselves 'I thought I'm in a bad period of my life, but it could be worse'. He thinks that's how his lyrics should be used.
In 2000, the tympanum in his ear got ruptured when Dir en grey played the intro of Rasetsu Koku. Because of this sudden illness, soon he had to go to heal in the hospital. Many lives on their ...DEEP (-), DEEP (-), DEEP (er) tour were postponed until next year. Kyo was very surprised when he saw the huge pile of fan letters wishing him to get better. When he left the hospital with his ear cured, he still had to take medicines regularly, which had various side effects like having more appetite thus getting fatter, also getting pimples on his face. But he got encouragement from his band mates and fans who folded thousands of paper cranes for him - other Japanese bands asked about his condition too, worried about his state. Kaoru even went to his house and they watched a video tape Kaoru bought with him (Kaoru said, he would be embarrassed if he came over to Kyo's house without anything ^_^). Kyo got over the illness a few weeks after, and from what he said, it made him more stronger and more self confident too. Sadly, this condition has a chance to happen again, so the band's still worried.
He knows how to fall asleep absolutely anywhere: he was even sleeping in a middle of an interview! He's specialty is to sleep in cars: he'd fall asleep when the car's engines start; and immediately wake up when they reach their destination (he's not in the driver's seat of course ^_^
He is also known to enjoy lying during interviews, meaning one can never be sure that what he said has even a little verity in it.
He has 2 pets, Puchi and Buchi, the kangaroo rats.
He has many piercings and tattoos that adorn his body.
Kyo's piercings & tattoos:
At first, Kyo didn't have many tattoos, but as time passed, more and more images appeared on his body. When Kyo started with Dir en grey, he only had a butterfly on his right shoulder, then a dragon appeared on his left arm, later he decided to have a non-figurative background to the butterfly, along with a Russian word „‚„€„t„y„„„Ž„ƒ„‘ (to be born) below it - altough now it can't be seen, since he has a thick non-figurative wires tattooed around the butterfly, which overlaps the writings.
His obsession with the Russian culture didn't expire there, he has a crown (that resembles the Crown of the Russian Empire), on his lower arm, with a five-pointed star and the Russian words in order are: „r„u„‰„~„„z (Eternal), „ƒ„€„~ „…„} (dream mind), „ƒ„‰„p„ƒ„„„Ž„u (Happiness), „ƒ„r„€„q„€„t„p (Freedom) - these are still visible. He also has Russian words on his fingers: „q„€„|„Ž (Pain), and „q„€„s (God), he got them in late 2001.
In late 2005, he got a cross on his finger (like Kaoru). In late 2006 - during the Family Values Tour -, he got "Damned" tattooed on the left side of his neck.
He has "The Emperor Is Dead" on his right hand, a crowned skull below his right ear, also a skull on his right shoulder (which he got recently). He also has a man's face above the russian crown.
His newest tattoo is a black tiger in red flames on his left hip.
More About Kyo:
He has such an eccentric and powerful voice that he can do amazing number of things with: singing, screaming, choking, laughing; he really knows how to sound like he's vomiting or like he's having an orgasm in almost the same breath. It's almost as if he's doing some sound effects to his songs. For example, if you listen to Taiyou no Ao and then Zan, you think two completely different things about him. Also he has a maniac giggle - that can be found in some of his songs -, that you can't help but smile at... yeah, too cute!
He's not only amazing as a vocalist, but as a songwriter as well. He wants to describe pain, so his lyrics never have a happy ending; all his songs are either really twisted or mournful and sad.
During lives, Kyo takes the advantages of being the vocalist to its fullest: he practically throws himself around the stage, he is not only a singer, but a performer. He may be small, but he is a twisted bundle of energy. He is incredible to watch, for you can almost feel the pain in his vocals by just looking at him.
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Fun facts:
-Kyo can play guitar and bass to some extent. He tried many different instruments before he decided he would be a singer instead.
-Kyo hasn't got much luck with his eyebrow piercings. When he first had one, it got infected and was very tender, so he decided to leave it alone and have another piercing on the other side, but the same thing happened to that one too!
-He has a younger sister.
-Kyo doesn't like winter, because he can't go out anywhere. He only loves warm weather.
-When he was a little kid, he decided he will not learn kanji, so in lieu of his original name he chose to use the "Kyo" kanji from his birthplace's name, Kyoto, which he speaks of quite fondly. Another explanation to his name is that he hated his original name and simply chose to use Kyo instead; the fact that he never used it - not even in his former bands - seems to confirm this version.
-The director of Battle Royale offered the role of Yoshitoki Kuninobu to him, but Kyo's management forbade him to take it. :<
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Kyo wrote the music for:
* uSv
* The Domestic Fucker Family
* Hades
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