Shikao Suga

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Shikao Suga (菅 止戈男 Suga Shikao?, born: July 28, 1966) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. His recording name is written in katakana as スガ シカオ, or romanized as Suga Shikao. However, Wikipedia manual of style policy requires the Shikao Suga ordering.

After graduating from Tokyo Keizai University, he worked as a "salaryman" for four years in the advertisement industry. Debuting with a major label EP album release in 1997, his J-Pop music has funk and soul influence, coupled with beautiful and moving lyrics.

Several of his songs have been used in the TV anime show Honey and Clover, including '8gatsu no Serenade', 'Tsuki to Knife' and 'Yubikiri'. Yozora no Mukou ("Beyond the Night Sky"), the song he wrote the lyrics to, and sung by Smap, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. He also did the theme song to xxxHolic the movie titled 'Sanagi ~theme from Holic the movie~' and the theme song to the xxxHolic TV series called '19sai'. "Manatsu no Yoru no Yume" has appeared in the recent Death Note live action movie as an insert song. Also, his song Yuudachi ("Evening Shower") was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Others and the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom.

Currently he is hosting a radio program called "Night Stories Monday" on J-Wave radio station which is downloadable as a podcast [1].

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[edit] Collaborations

He has been a member of Fukumimi, a band formed by artists from the same label Office Augusta, consisting of: Suga Shikao, Chitose Hajime, Masayoshi Yamazaki, Kyoko (杏子), COIL, Araki Yuko(mi-gu), and Sukima Switch. He has provided work to other artists:

  • Kyoko (musician)
    Happy Birthday (music and lyrics)
  • SMAP
    Koko ni Iru Koto (music, lyrics, arrangement)
    Yozora no Mukou (lyrics)
  • Chisato Moritaka
    Tanpopo no Tane (music, arrangement)
    Mahiru no Hoshi (music)
  • KAT-TUN
    Real Face (lyrics)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

  1. Clover (7 September 1997)
  2. FAMILY (24 June 1998)
  3. Sweet (8 September 1999)
  4. 4Flusher (25 October 2000)
  5. Sugarless (3 October 2001)
  6. SMILE (7 May 2003)
  7. THE BEST HITS OF LIVE RECORDINGS－THANK YOU－ (5 November 2003)
  8. TIME (17 November 2004)
  9. PARADE (06 September 2006)
  10. All Singles Best (24 January 2007)

[edit] Singles

Release date Title Transliteration* Translation (unofficial)
26 February 1997 ヒットチャートをかけぬけろ Hitto chāto o kakenukero Dash Through the Hit Charts
28 May 1997 黄金の月 Ōgon no tsuki The Golden Moon
30 July 1997 ドキドキしちゃう Dokidoki shichau Heart Pounding
21 November 1997 愛について Ai ni tsuite About Love
27 May 1998 ストーリー Stōrī Story
18 November 1998 ぼくたちの日々 Bokutachi no hibi Our Days
23 June 1999 夜明けまえ Yoake mae Before Dawn
18 August 1999 あまい果実 Amai kajitsu Sweet Fruit
2 August 2000 SPIRIT Supiritto SPIRIT
12 October 2000 AFFAIR Afea AFFAIR
1 August 2001 8月のセレナーデ Hachigatsu no serenāde August Serenade
17 January 2002 青空／Cloudy Aozora/kuraudī Blue Sky / Cloudy
29 May 2002 アシンメトリー Ashinmetorī Asymmetry
26 February 2003 サヨナラ/気まぐれ Sayonara/kimagure Goodbye/Whim
12 May 2004 秘密 Himitsu Secret
25 August 2004 クライマックス Kuraimakkusu Climax
27 October 2004 光の川 Hikari no kawa River of Light
10 August 2005 奇跡/夏陰～なつかげ～/サナギ Kiseki/natsu kage/sanagi Miracle/Summer Shade/Chrysalis
26 April 2006 19才 19-sai 19 Years Old
21 June 2006 真夏の夜のユメ Manatsu no yoru no yume A Midsummer Night's Dream
06 September 2006 午後のパレード Gogo no parēdo Afternoon Parade

* This column indicates Japanese pronunciation using romanization.

[edit] External links

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