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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Matsumoto Hideto |
 | | Hideto Matsumoto (松本 秀人 Matsumoto Hideto, December 13, 1964 - May 2, 1998), or hide (always spelled with lowercase h), was a Visual kei Japanese rock musician, one of the two guitarists of X Japan and founder, composer, singer and guitar of hide with Spread Beaver, as well as the American collaboration Zilch. |
 | | Hide's death and funeral was announced by CNN and other TV channels around the world, despite his fame not reaching outisde of Japan. |
 | | Hideto Matsumoto, 33, of an apparent suicide by hanging, May 2 in Tokyo, Matsumoto, who went by the name Hide, was guitarist in X Japan the best known of Japan's "visual-kei" glam-rock bands, which broke up formally Dec 31, 1997. |
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