Reiji Sakurai

Reiji Sakurai

Artist Information

• Name: Reiji Sakurai (桜井零士)
• Also known as: Reiji Isakura (いさくら れいじ)
• Blood type: A
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/rayzyrayzy
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAAWbxrshSXsl0vvP5T0MA

Profile

Reiji Sakurai (born January 26th, 1986) was for a while a frequently appearing vocalist in BEMANI, who made his first appearance in 2004 when he won the BEMANI 2004 Vocalist Audition, alongside Kanako Hoshino and the members of BeForU Next. He then made his first appearance in pop'n music 12 いろは with the song For Dear～. After that, he became fairly active in the pop'n music and GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series, appearing in both games for several years after. Originally he was credited for songs under his original name, but eventually changed it to RayZY, which stuck for the rest of his BEMANI tenure (with the exception of White Sketchbook).

Outside of BEMANI, Reiji is a composer, guitar player, lyricist, and vocalist. He used to be a part of a band called Gylay up until March 28th, 2009. Reiji left KONAMI in the late 2000's and is currently signed on with Japanese record company BIG TREE RECORD, who have provided jubeat plus and REFLEC BEAT plus with licensed songs. He's also worked on kors k's record label, QUADROID YUJI.

Trivia

• Soon after he won the BEMANI 2004 Vocalist Audition, pictures of Reiji with a pierced face with a chain attached to it were taken. This was digitally removed from photos before they were sent out to the public because, according to the pop'n music staff members, they "didn't want his pierced face to scare children from playing the game".

Aliases

• RayZy
• Gylay (member of)
• mu-Ray-ZY (with Seiya Murai)

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement	Lyrics	Vocals
Desert rain	桜井零士	GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2	-	✓	-	✓	✓
Venus	Tatsh+RayZY	GuitarFreaks V3 & DrumMania V3	-	-	-	✓	✓
You ～Meaning All Orbit～	Gylay	GuitarFreaks V3 & DrumMania V3 CS	-	✓	✓	✓	✓
White Sketchbook	桜井零士	GuitarFreaks V5 & DrumMania V5 Rock to Infinity	-	✓	-	✓	✓
For Dear～	桜井零士	pop'n music 12 いろは	VIVID	-	-	✓	✓
Infinity Blue	桜井零士	pop'n music 13 カーニバル	EURASIA ROCK	✓	-	✓	✓
空へ続く道～Infinity∞MIX	桜井零士	pop'n music 13 カーニバル CS	ROCK STYLE	✓	-	✓	✓
NIGHT FEVER	桜井零士	pop'n music 14 FEVER!	RAY JAZZ	✓	-	✓	✓
Always	Shoichiro Hirata feat.RayZY	pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE	BOYS R&B	-	-	✓	✓
EFFECT	mu-Ray-ZY	pop'n music 16 PARTY♪	CHIP POP	-	-	✓	✓

Discography

Albums

• For Dear... (2007)
• TIMELESS (2009)
• AWAKE (2009)
• スクランブルレイジ (2011)