Yoshiki to Be Presented With Variety’s International Achievement in Music Honor

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William Earl Yoshiki will be presented with Variety‘s 2024 International Achievement in Music honor. The presentation will take place at the eighth annual Hitmakers celebration on Dec.

7 in Los Angeles, presented by AFEELA. In the March 27, 2024 issue of Variety, Yoshiki was honored as Variety‘s 2024 International Achievement in Music honor, celebrating his prolific career as an artist, humanitarian, and philanthropist.

Yoshiki is the first musical artist from Asia to receive this accolade, and joins the prestigious list of previous recipients including Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé and Bad Bunny. “Yoshiki’s decades of artistic excellence include genre-spanning music collaborations, documentary filmmaking and groundbreaking fashion endeavors.

He has also consistently provided critical leadership in the cause of hugely impactful philanthropic efforts,” said Variety’s executive vice president of content Steven Gaydos. “We’re thrilled to present Yoshiki with the 2024 Variety International Achievement in Music award at our 8th Annual Hitmakers event.” Since the start of his career as leader of rock group X Japan, Yoshiki has charted a path all his own, most recently exploring new creative endeavors in film with his directorial debut in “Yoshiki: Under the Sky” (distributed by Magnolia Pictures), as well as in fashion with the launch of his fashion line Maison Yoshiki Paris, which debuted on the runway during Milan Fashion Week and showed this fall at Paris Fashion Week.