Miya from MUCC

Miya is the guitarist for the Japanese rock band called Mucc. The band was formed in 1997 and is still together and has become very famous in Japan and has played, and become popular in other countries such as Germany, France and most recently, America. Miya is the leader of Mucc and has written the music and lyrics for most of their songs.

• Miya’s first musical performance in front of an audience was during a cultural festival in his last year of high school. For the performance, Miya and his friends played a song called “NO?!” and was also Mucc’s first song to be released.
  
• Miya decided on the name of the band influenced by a kids cartoon called Ponkickies where one of the main characters was named Mucc. He also thought that the band name should be short, simple, easy to remember and above all, meaningless. Another thing Miya thought important was for the band to have a look that would be remembered easily. For this look they did what came to be called “Zombie Makeup”, which was black makeup around the lips, eyes and other dark shades, such as purple to make the wearer look dead.
  
• June 9 (also seen as 6/9) is “Mucc day”. Mucc is the band Miya has been playing with since 1997. Mucc in Japanese can be pronounced as “muku” which would translate to 69.
  
• Miya, along with Tatsurou and Yukke don’t like to wear shoes and often don’t wear any for concerts, photo shoots and music videos.