Kyo (musician)

Kyo (京) is the stagename of a Japanese artist belonging to the group Dir en grey. He was born 16 February 1976 in Kyoto. There is much debate to his birth name, but most accept it to be Nishimura Tooru (西村 亨). At age fifteen he chose to forego High School and instead began a career in music. When he was eighteen he moved from his home to Osaka where he met his current bandmates. He remains partially deaf in his left ear after a prolonged sickness in 2000.

Bibliography

• 31.08.2001 - 自虐、歛葬腐乱シネマ (jigyaku, rensou furan cinema) "Masochism, ? Funeral Decomposition Cinema"
• CD: 第三帝国楽団 (daisanteikoku gakudan) "The Third Empire Orchestra"
• 04.12.2004 - 前略、お元気ですか。最果ての地より名も無き君に愛をこめて・・・ (zenryaku, ogenki desu ka? saihate no chi yori namonaki kimi ni ai wo komete) "Just a line to ask you, how are you? To you who has no name, with love from the end of the earth..."
• CD: 腐乱シネマ帝國楽団 (furan cinema teikoku gakudan) "Decomposition Cinema Imperial Orchestra"