Chiba Yusuke

One of the leading lights of Japanese rock, Chiba Yūsuke (チバユウスケ) gained fame both as the frontman of erstwhile garage-rockers Thee Michelle Gun Elephant and current band The Birthday and as a singer and songwriter in his own right. Born on July 10th, 1968 in Kanazawa prefecture, he cut his teeth in a high school punk band before establishing the self-styled "monstrous Japanese RnB" of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant in 1991 and releasing a cache of genre-defining studio albums during a 12-year stint. In 2006, he formed The Birthday with guitarist Akinobu Imai of the J-rock band Rosso and dropped a debut single, "Stupid," that summer, putting out albums with the band steadily over the next few decades, including 2021 LP Sunburst. Chiba Yusuke has also carved a reputation as a solo artist with a distinctive gravelly voice, releasing his fourth studio album, SINGS, in June 2022; the follow-up to 2020's real light real darkness.

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