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Career

Between years 1998-2003, Akihide was member of the rock-band ''Fairy Fore'' under Avex and between years 2003-2006 member of the band ''Never Land'' independently. On the same year when Never Land disbanded, he became member of the rock-band Breakerz along with vocalist Daigo and another guitarist Shinpei signed under Zain Records, one of the major labels of the B Zone agency. The single sold over 100k copies. Since 2012, the music agency B Zone has launched once-in-year event ''Being Legend: Guitar summit'', in which he performs on live venues with juniors such as Michiya Haruhata from

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and Takashi Masuzaki from Dimension. In 2013, he launched his solo career, in which he would mix releases with pure guitar instrumentals and vocal songs. Akihide writes, performs and produces songs on his own. Following the next year in 2014, he released his first home-video release ''Akihide Live 2013:Amber×Lapis Lazuli''. In 2017, he has expand his activities and song-writer provider for the band

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and in 2019 for the singer Renka. In 2022, he released his first ambient instrumental EP ''Journey to sleep Nemuri he no Tabiji: 432Hz''. He is active as of 2023.

Discography

As of the 2023, he has released 9 albums, 4 digital EPs, 1 physical EP and 1 DVD. See also the Breakerz discography.

Albums

EP

Digital EP

DVD/BD

Tours

*AKIHIDE 1st Live Tour 2013 "Amber" (2013) *AKIHIDE LIVE TOUR 2014 "RAIN MAN" (2014) *AKIHIDE Live Tour 2016 Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita de (2016) *AKIHIDE Live Tour 2016 Zoku: Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita de (2016) *AKIHIDE LIVE TOUR 2020 Hoshikai no Shonen (2020) *AKIHIDE LIVE TOUR 2021 Black Unicorn (2021) *AKIHIDE LIVE TOUR 2023 Three Stars (2023)

References

External links

* * {{Authority control B Zone artists 1977 births Living people 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese male singers Japanese male singer-songwriters Japanese singer-songwriters Japanese male rock singers 20th-century Japanese guitarists 21st-century Japanese guitarists Japanese rock guitarists