Keiji Haino

I'll be honest — the first time I heard Keiji Haino, I genuinely wasn't sure what I was listening to. Born in Chiba in 1952, this guy has spent decades making music that refuses to sit still in any category: guitar, voice, percussion, whatever's within reach gets bent into something that sounds like it's coming from somewhere deep and slightly feral. The long black hair, the all-black wardrobe, the way he apparently just stands there and makes a room go tense before a single note drops — there's a real mystique to him that doesn't feel performed. He's never chased trends, never courted a mainstream audience, and somehow that stubbornness is exactly what makes him compelling. Decades in, still doing it entirely his way. That's rare enough to respect even if the music carves a hole straight through you.

Keiji Haino is a Japanese musician born on May 3, 1952, in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. He works across guitar, vocals, and percussion, operating without conventional genre boundaries. His activities span several decades, and he maintains an official website as well as presences on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Keiji Haino

Name (Japanese)

灰野敬二

Reading

はいの けいじ

Born

May 3, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

Origin

Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Guitarist / Musician / Singer-Songwriter / Percussionist / Singer

• Official sitehttp://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~haino/index.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/keijihaino_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/hainokeiji1
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%81%B0%E9%87%8E%E6%95%AC%E4%BA%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2705919

Tags

• From Chiba Prefecture
• Guitarist
• Musician
• Singer-Songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.