# Michiya Haruhata

Michiya Haruhata (春畑道哉, Haruhata Michiya, born November 5, 1966) 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 in leading of the lead guitarist. In the high school was, formed amateurs band Backing M with each of members from different school, Michiya being in role as guitarist. In 1984, Michiya took part in the music festival Silc Road held by music agency Being Inc., where he won award for the best guitarist. On the same festival was Nobutoru Maeda, who won on the same festival award for the best vocalist, would be later in the future his band member. With Nobutoru and two more members, Ryuuji Matsumoto and Hideyuki Kakun they took one year activity in the amateur band "Pipeline".
All the members we're gathered together and in the 1985 made major debut with the band Tube under Sony Music Entertainment Japan. As of 2023 he is active member. Two years later in 1987, he started his solo career with the release of instrumental album Drivin'.
In 1992, he started expanding his musical activities by composing and arranging for the artist 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 formed with Nobutoru production project Pipeline Project, the name being taken from their amateur period time, where they would contribute compositions, lyrics and arrangements as duo to the 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 the 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 the first Asian and Japanese guitarist to be added to the Fender signature artist club. He is one of the few people to receive multiple Fender signature guitars, having three unique signature designs in the line: the Michiya Haruhata Stratocaster(released in 2002), Michiya Haruhata BWL Stratocaster(released in 2005), and the Michiya Haruhata III Stratocaster (released in 2022).

## Usage in media

His song "J'S Theme" became the official theme song of the J.League, Japan's professional football (soccer) league. In 1993 he performed for 60,000 spectators live at the J-league opening ceremony at the national stadium.
His single "Kingdom of the Heavens" was made to be the theme song of the New Japan Pro-Wrestling tournament.

## Discography

As of 2023, he has released 3 singles, 11 solo albums, 2 compilation albums, 1 EP and 3 digital releases.

### Studio albums

| # | Release date | Title | Chart | Code |
| 1st | 1987 | Drivin' | - | 28DH623 |
| 2nd | 1987 | Smile on Me | - | 32DH5217 |
| 3rd | 1990 | Guitar Land | - | CSCL1108 |
| 4th | 1991 | Dream Box | - | CSCL1658 |
| 5th | 1992 | Moon | - | CSCL1658 |
| 6th | 1993 | Real Time | - | SRCL2565 |
| 7th | 1995 | Color of Life | - | SRCL2943 |
| 8th | 2000 | Red Bird | - | SRCL4924 |
| 9th | 2016 | Play the Life | 9 | AICL3187 |
| 10th | 2019 | Continue | 13 | AICL3662 |
| 10th | 2022 | Spring Has Come | 13 | AICL4233 |

### Compilation albums

| # | Release date | Title | Code |
| 1st | 2008 | Best Works 1987–2008: Route 66 | AICL1987/8 |
| 2nd | 2012 | Find My Place | AICL2492 |

### EP

| # | Release date | Title | Code |
| 1st | 1993 | J's Theme | SRCL2748 |

### Singles

| # | Release date | Title | Chart | Code |
| 1st | 1992 | J's Theme | 36 | SRDL3563 |
| 2nd | 1992 | Best Day of Your Life | 87 | SRDL4069 |
| 3rd | 2013 | Jaguar'13 | 30 | AICL2544 |

### Digital release

| | Release date | Title | Chart |
| 1st | 2018 | Re-birth | 1 (Recochoku)Rock Chart Recochoku） |
| 2nd | 2019 | Kingdom of the Heavens | - |