The Scar frontman wrote about loss and mental health through brain surgery and decades of music.
For the unvarnished Kitani, 'A Sin' and 'When The Weak Go Marching In' frame his approach pretty clearly. They're not easy listens, but they're what he does.
Kitani's songs like 'A Sin' and 'Scar' connected with people dealing with difficult feelings, often touching on heavy subjects that drew criticism. He kept making music through brain tumor surgery in 2003, and his direct, emotional style persisted across albums from 1999's 'Scar' to 2021's 'Reset'.
Growing up with a jazz musician father, Kitani listened to Bob Dylan and Japanese folk before joining Scar in his early twenties. The band's song 'Scar' became well-known, and he continued writing in that emotional style through solo work and albums like 2006's 'Kiseki'.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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