Kimura Dai (Kimura Daichi, February 15, 1982) is a Japanese classical guitarist from Miho Village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Tsuchiura City). Graduated from Tsuchiura Nihon University High School.
From 5 years old he studied under guitarist Father Yoshihiro.
1988 when in elementary school he won nationwide student guitar competition. His name was known all over the country. In junior high school days, from 1995 to 1997 he won the 20th student guitar competition, middle school student 's department. At the same time, he won the GLC award given to the winner in all divisions. He got the 11th Junior Guitar Competition Best Award, first place in the 13th Spanish guitar competition.
In 1996, at the Tokyo International Guitar Competition, which is said to be the world's highest level at the guitar competition, he was only 14 years old and won as the youngest in history.
In 1999, at the age of 17, he made CD debut at "The Cadenza 17", and sold 50,000 pieces which can be said as a hit as a classic CD. This CD features several songs by American guitarist Andrew York.
Studied abroad at the Royal Conservatory of Music from April 2002 to March 2004. As a first step after returning home, he played two consecutive nightly contests with the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
He also likes heavy metal as his brother's influence, and in 2000 he interviewed Yngwie Malmsteen with a guitar magazine "YOUNG GUITAR". He wrote commentary on Yngwie's album "War To End All Wars" (Japanese version). in March 2013 he released an album "HERO" which included cover songs such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Randy Rose, and Kyoji Yamamoto of BOWWOW We participate in the guitar instrument project "6 strings Vol.2" produced by "Takeda no Komori Uta".
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