Two articles on Hayato Sumino -- AERA 2022/5/23 issue and Nikkei Asia
The other day an interesting article on the life story of Hayato Sumino was published online. This web article is the first half of the one carried in a magazine called AERA's May 23 issue (publisher: Asahi-Shimbun, one of the quality newspaper companies in Japan).
As many Japanese fans recommended, it is worth reading with the help of machine translation tools because this article is written based on extensive research on his life and is rich in data and information, interviewing many people around him.
Let me introduce some of the quotes. After introducing his busy schedule since the end of last year, this writer cites Hayato's comment.
「飽きるのが怖い。同じ所に留まりたくない。その気持ちが僕を突き動かしています。今のところ、毎回、反省点がある。それってもっと上に行けるということ。だから、進まない理由がないんです」
"I'm afraid of getting bored. I don't want to stay in the same place. That feeling is what drives me. So far, every time I do something, I learn the lesson. That means I can go higher. So there's no reason not to move on."
Ms. Katsuko Kaneko, who is now 84 and started to teach him when he was 6, said to the interviewer:
「腕や手首のしなやかな筋力、長く細い指と、抜群の集中力。リズム感、テンポ感、フレーズ感、音色と小さいころから彼ならではのものがあり、勉強もできる。天からさまざまなものを授かっていましたね」
"He has supple muscles in his arms and wrists, long thin fingers, and excellent concentration. His sense of rhythm, tempo, phrasing, and tone have been unique to him since he was a child, and he has also been at studies. Heaven has gifted him many things."
Reading this article, you will have a good idea of how he has become what he is today. In the later part of this article, which is published only in the magazine, you will read comments by Mr. Noritaka Suzuki, Hayato's manager at the music agency "eplus", Ms. Yuko Uebayashi, a composer who introduced Hayato to Mr. Jean-Marc Luisada, and Mr. Ko-ichi Tsutaya, a music producer. Mr. Tsutaya said, "He is revolutionary. In this sense, he is close to Mozart rather than Chopin."
You can buy the magazine carrying the full article at KINDLE. If you are a member of the "Kindle Unlimited" service with Amazon Japan, you can read this article without an extra cost.
After this article by AERA was widely shared on Twitter, the editor at Nikkei Asia shared their article on Hayato, which was written at the end of last year again. This is written in English, and it is also worth reading.
P.S. According to the information on the latter part of AERA's article (available only in the magazine), wearing long, fluffy hair seems to be part of a strategy by Mr. Suzuki, his manager.
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