

For his solo projects he often uses Fender guitars and basses While in band Luna Sea, Sugizo almost exclusively used ESP guitars and has around 16 signature models with ESP Japan. Luna was present at the Final Act, she can be seen in her grandmother's arms clapping her hands His wife told him to choose between her and LunaSea: he chose LunaSea and swore not to get married again He stopped smoking and grew interested to environmental questions after his daughter Luna was born in 1997 He got married on 1996: the news of his marriage were not released to the press: only in 1998 the band decided to confirm the gossip and he showed also a photo of his daughter during an interview for the Capacity DVD As Lunacy was a Visual Kei band, he could finally put his hands on strong make ups and outstanding costumes On his last year of High School, he and Shinya got invited by rival band Lunacy to join them: at first they declined cause they did not want to join a band of "kids" His first role was as a bassist in the band Pinochio: he debuted as a guitarist when Pinochio disbanded and he and Shinya joined Kashimir, a progressive rock band

Having a hard time during his parents' divorce, he devoted himself to music together with his only friend and class mate Shinya He discovered Rock when he was 15 thanks to YMO, Culture Club, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin and KISS (he got a passion for extreme make up and costumes from Kiss) Through hard training, he regained this ability At age 10 two tendons of his left hand were severed in a car accident and he was told he would have never ever played violin again. His musical debut was at age of 6: he played in front of 500 people together with his mother in a piano/violin duet He was given his first violin as a present for his 3rd birthday Both his parents were performers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Synphonic Orchestra Marital Status: Divorced, 1 daughter (Luna)
