Kazuyoshi Saito

Kazuyoshi Saito (Japanese: 斉藤和義, Hepburn: Saitō Kazuyoshi, born June 22, 1966) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Making his professional debut in 1993, Saito's popularity exploded in 2007 after 15 years in the music industry. He is also one-half of the rock duo Mannish Boys with Tatsuya Nakamura, a member of the supergroup the Curling Sitones (カーリングシトーンズ, Kāringu Shitōnzu), and one-half of the duo Okamura Kazuyoshi (岡村和義) with Yasuyuki Okamura. In 2013, Saito became the first Japanese musician to have a signature model acoustic guitar with Gibson. As of 2020, he had six signature models with them and one with Epiphone.