Suga Shikao

Shikao Suga is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. Though he uses katakana for his recording name, the kanji for his name are 菅 止戈男, but the romanization is the same. Suga is his family name and Shikao is his given name.

After graduating from Tokyo Keizai University, he worked as a "salaryman" for four years in the advertisement industry. Debuting with a major label EP album release in 1997, his J-Pop music has jazz, funk and soul influence, coupled with beautiful and moving lyrics.

Several of his songs have been used in the TV anime Honey and Clover, including Hachigatsu no Serenade, Tsuki to Knife and Yubikiri. Yozora no Mukō, the song he wrote the lyrics to, and sung by Smap, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. He also did the theme song to the movie xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume , Sanagi ~theme from xxxHOLiC the movie~ and the theme song to the xxxHOLiC TV series called Jūkyū-sai. Manatsu no Yoru no Yume has appeared in the recent Death Note live action movie as an insert song. Also, his song Yūdachi was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Other and the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom. More recently, Nobody Knows was used as the opening theme of the second season of the xxxHOLiC TV series, xxxHOLiC Kei.

From October 3, 2005, until March 27, 2006, he was hosting a radio program called Night Stories Monday on J-Wave radio station which was downloadable as a podcast.

Members:
Vox & Gu: Suga Shikao
Yrs:
1995-present



FUNKAHOLiC
1.banana no kuni no kiiroi sensou
2.NOBODY KNOWS
3.POP MUSIC （J-WAVE 20th ANNIVERSARY SONG）
4.Planetarium
5.Call My Name
6.FUNKAHOLiC
7.Phonoscope
8.Keppeki
9.13 kai no elevator
10.Kono yubi Tomare
11.sofa
12.Uchuu
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Kono Yubi Tomare
1.Kono yubi tomare
2.America no rock StarNatsu Kage （Original ver.）
3.Rakuen
4.Natsu Kage （Original ver.）
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Honey and Clover (songs from Honey and Clover)
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xxxHOLiC (songs from)
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Party People (7/8/09)
1. Party People
2. Nurui BEER
3. TOKYO LIFE
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