HIDE

Hideto Matsumoto:

was born in the joseph St. hospital, Yokosuka, 13 of December of 1964.

It left the secondary school to form a musical group called TO KNOW TIGER (Heavy/Thrash Metal), in 1981, at the same time as it began to study in the Cosmetic and Aesthetic School of. The group was famous Yokosuka To know TIGER more ahead, since in another region of Japan Sapporo there was a band with the same name, so they put in front the name of his region so hat there were not problems.

Finally, the group dissolved since their members changed much. With the purpose of its band, hide became barber (like his uncle) and dedicated itself to the aesthetic one, until a day, received a call of Yoshiki, a drummer of a group (X Japan) that began to blunt by the zone, which proposed to him to be the main guitarist of the band