Yuto Miyazawa (Japanese: 宮澤佑門 Miyazawa Yūto) is a Japanese child prodigy in music. Miyazawa was born on February 21, 2000, in Tokyo, Japan and currently lives there with his parents. Miyazawa was named “The Youngest Professional Guitarist” by Guinness Book of World Records in August, 2008.

Since his discovery, Miyazawa has performed with numerous music legends over the past year including G. E. Smith, Les Paul, Galactic, Deep Banana Blackout, and Ozzy Osbourne.

He has appeared at Madison Square Garden, the famous B. B. King’s, Chris Noth and Steve Walter’s The Cutting Room, Rodeo Bar in New York City, and at the Gathering of the Vibes festival this past summer.

In May 2009, Miyazawa appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he performed “Crazy Train” playing guitar and singing lead vocals. He named his musical idols as Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads, and showed his guitar to be an official Rhoads edition polka-dot Gibson Flying V.[1] After the performance, Ozzy Osbourne came on stage to give words of encouragement and awarded him a plaque framed in gold. Yuto appeared on stage at Blizzcon 2009 with Ozzy to play “Crazy Train” as the first encore performance. [2] In 2010, Yuto came back on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and played “Paranoid.” He also played “Crazy Train” with Ozzy Osbourne at Ozzfest 2010.

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1歳の時からギターに興味を持ち始め、3歳から本格的にギターを習い始めた。5歳から8歳まで「さんまのスーパーからくりテレビ」のちびっこバンド として活躍。8歳からアメリカで活動を開始。2008年8月4日、ギネスブックに「世界最年少のプロ・ギタリスト」として登録された10歳の天才ギタリス ト。
アメリカでもTV出演を果たし、Ozzy Osbourneとはテレビ、ステージでも共演。また、生前の93歳ギタリスト、Les Paul氏とも奇跡の共演を果たしている。有名ライヴハウスでの出演で実績も積み、大絶賛される。もはや、彼は年齢も国境も超越した世界レベルで注目され ている若きスーパーギタリストなのだ。好きなアーティストはRandy Rhoads、Ozzy Osbourne、Eric Clapton、Jeff Beck、KISS、BLACK SABBATHなど。

今年3月は尊敬するRandyの実兄とRandyの親友で元QUIET RIOTのオリジナル・ベーシスト、Kelly Garniと共演を果たした。アメリカではRandyの母、姉には既に対面しており、Randyのお墓へも墓参に行っているRandyフリークだ。