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is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. Though he uses ''katakana'' for his recording name, the ''kanji'' for his name are 菅 止戈男, but the romanization is the same. ''Suga'' is his family name and ''Shikao'' is his given name. After graduating from Tokyo Keizai University, he worked as a "salaryman" for four years in the advertisement industry. Debuting with a major label EP album release in 1997, his J-Pop music has jazz, funk and soul influence. Several of his songs have been used in the anime TV series show Honey and Clover, including ''Hachigatsu no Serenade'', ''Tsuki to Knife'' and ''Yubikiri''. ''Yozora no Mukō'', the song he wrote the lyrics to, and sung by Smap, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. He also did the theme song to the movie ''xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume'', ''Sanagi ~theme from xxxHOLiC the movie~'' and the theme song to the ''xxxHOLiC'' TV series called ''Jūkyū-sai''. ''Manatsu no Yoru no Yume'' has appeared in the recent Death Note live action movie as an insert song. Also, his song ''Yūdachi'' was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Others,〔(Boogiepop wa Warawanai: Boogiepop and Others ). IMDb.com, Inc. Accessed March 26, 2008.〕 the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom and ''Nobody Knows'' was used as the opening theme of the second season of the ''xxxHOLiC'' TV series, ''xxxHOLiC Kei''. More recently, ''Hajimari no Hi'' was used as the first opening theme to ''Letter Bee''. After a year and three months, he released the second opening of the sequel, ''Yakusoku''. ''Sofa'' was another song used in ''xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki'' in February 17, 2009. From October 3, 2005, until March 27, 2006, he was hosting a radio program called ''Night Stories Monday'' on J-Wave radio station which was downloadable as a podcast.〔(Night Stories Monday (Shikao Suga) ). J-Wave, Inc. Accessed March 25, 2008.〕 He is involved in the poster campaign for Chica Umino's seinen manga series, March Comes in Like a Lion with Anne Watanabe. In February 2013, xxxHOLiC drama started on Wowow, and Suga Shikao's "Aitai" is used as its opening theme song. ==Collaborations== He has been a member of Fukumimi, a band formed by artists from the same label Office Augusta; it consisted of Shikao Suga, Chitose Hajime, Masayoshi Yamazaki, Kyoko (杏子), COIL, Araki Yuko (mi-gu), and Sukima Switch. He has provided work to other artists: * Kyoko: ''Ijimete Mitai'' (music, lyrics), ''Happy Birthday'' (music, lyrics) * Smap: ''Koko ni Iru Koto'' (music, lyrics, arrangement), ''Yozora no Mukō'' (lyrics), ''Ringo Juice'' (lyrics) * Chisato Moritaka: ''Tanpopo no Tane'' (music, arrangement), ''Mahiru no Hoshi'' (music) *KAT-TUN: ''Real Face'' (lyrics) * Arashi: ''Aozora Pedal'' (music, lyrics) * Kamenashi Kazuya: ''Ai ni Tsuite'' (music, lyrics) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shikao Suga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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