Michiya Haruhata

is a Japanese musical composer, guitarist and music producer under Sony Music Entertainment Japan. He is a member of the pop rock band Tube.

Biography As a child he was interested in learning piano, however later he was influenced by his father who owned an acoustic guitar. In middle school, he formed the school band Rainbow and was the lead guitarist. In high school he formed amateurs band; Backing M with each of the members coming from different school, Michiya’s role being as the guitarist. In 1984, Michiya took part in the music festival Silc Road held by music agency Being Inc, where he won an award for best guitarist. On the same festival was Nobuteru Maeda, who won the award for best vocalist. With Nobutoru and two more members, Ryoji Matsumoto and Hideyuki Kakuno, they had one year of activity in the amateur band "Pipeline".

All the members were gathered together and in 1985 made their major debut with the band Tube under Sony Music Entertainment Japan.

In 1992, he started expanding his musical activities by composing and arranging for artists such as Twinzer, Mi-Ke and Zard. Between years 1996 and 1999, he would temporarily resume his solo career and started his producing records for the Japanese singer Kanae. During the same period, he and Nobutoru formed the production project; Pipeline Project, the name being taken from their amateur period time, where they would contribute compositions, lyrics and arrangements as a duo to various Japanese artists.

Michiya was given his own Signature Model Stratocaster from Fender in 2002.

In 2005, he was part of the guitarist session along with Takashi Masuzaki from the fusion band Dimension, and Yoshinobu Ohga from OOM and released together compilation album "Theatre Of Strings" produced and composed by japanese guitarist Tak Matsumoto from the rock band B'z.

Since 2012, the music agency Being has launched once-in-year event called Being Legend: Guitar summit, in which he performs on live venues with juniors such as Akihide from Breakerz, Hiroshi Shibazaki from Wands, Shinji Tagawa from Deen, Takashi Gomi from T-BOLAN and Takashi Masuzaki from Dimension.

His song "Jaguar '08" was named the 31st best guitar instrumental by Young Guitar Magazine in 2019.

In 2020, his instrumental album Continue received the award for Best Instrumental Album of the Year at the 34th Japan Gold Disc Award.

Signature guitars He is not only the first Japanese but the first Asian guitarist to be added to the Fender signature artist club. He is also one of few people to receive multiple Fender signature guitars, having three unique signature designs in the line:

The Michiya Haruhata Stratocaster (released in 2002)

The Michiya Haruhata BWL Stratocaster (released in 2005),

And the Michiya Haruhata III Stratocaster (released in 2022). 2nd 1987 Smile on Me 32DH5217 3rd 1990 Guitar Land 23 CSCL1108 4th 1991 Dream Box 27 CSCL1658 5th 1992 Moon 27 CSCL1658 6th 1993 Real Time 35 SRCL2565 7th 1995 Color of Life SRCL2943 8th 2000 Red Bird 42 SRCL4924 9th 2016 Play the Life 9 AICL3187 10th 2019 Continue 13 AICL3662 10th 2022 Spring Has Come 13 AICL4233

Compilation albums

EP

Singles

Digital release