Taiji biography

Japanese musician (1966–2011)

Musical artist

Taiji Sawada (Japanese: 沢田 泰司, Hepburn: Sawada Taiji, July 12, 1966 – July 17, 2011), also known mononymously as Taiji, was a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former bassist of the rock band X Japan. X Japan rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, credited as founders of the Japanese visual kei movement. After leaving X Japan in January 1992, Taiji went on to work with many other bands, including Loudness and D.T.R.

Early life

Taiji Sawada was born in Ichikawa, Chiba, on July 12, 1966. He was the second son of three children. His younger sister Masayo is a singer known as Sister MAYO. When Taiji was two years of age, he shoved his hand into a machine in a factory where his parents worked, resulting in a first joint cut on the middle finger, but luckily, it was not too serious. In 1974, at age eight, Taiji learned how to play acoustic guitar while in element

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Seo Taiji

South Korean musician (born 1972)

In this Korean name, the family name is Jeong. In the stage name or pen-name, the surname is Seo.

Jeong Hyeon-cheol (Korean: 정현철; born February 21, 1972), better known as Seo Taiji or Seo Tae-ji (서태지), is a South Korean singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. After dropping out of high school to pursue a music career, he rose to become one of the most prominent and influential cultural icons in South Korea, with many referring to him as "the President of Culture".^[2][3]

Following a brief stint in the heavy metal band Sinawe, Taiji formed Seo Taiji and Boys in 1991 with whom he found immediate success. Their style of music, dance, fashion, and self-presentation resonated with the young generation—termed the sinsedae, "new generation." They incorporated elements of popular musical genres from the West and contributed considerably larger to Korean pop culture and Korean pop's development

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The Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) Biography

The Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) Biography of Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola

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In 2003 Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola started to learn the Large Frame (Yang Cheng Fu lineage) from Sifu Alan Fong, learning the complete set from him in Amsterdam The Netherlands together with some of the Yang Taiji two men sets, although he kept the practice up it was not until around 2008 that Sifu Sergio started to gräva seriously into the pure northern kinesisk Internal Arts.

It was 2012 that Sifu Sergio started his journey into the Huang Shen Shyan struktur which fryst vatten a fusion of Fujian White Crane and the 37 postures of Chen Man Ching Taijiquan, like he always does Sifu Sergio looked for the best and most authentic way for the transmission, learning beneath several students of the late Huang Shen Shyan in places like Taiwan, Singapore and New Zealand where he spend several months a year for a period of 4 years learning privately beneath Wee Kee Jin at his house