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Matt Kiichi Heafy
Matthew Kiichi Heafy is a Japanese American musician, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the Grammy-nominated heavy metal band Trivium. He is an avid gamer, practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and food connoisseur.
Matt streams daily on his Twitch channel "matthewkheafy," displaying the behind-the-scenes work it takes to stay in shape for guitars and vocals. Playing Trivium songs by request, every day is a new show made by the fans, for the fans.
Some of Matt's notable accomplishments include hosting the first ever Full Metal Gaming Village at Wacken Open Air, competing against ninja in the Twitch Rivals Summer Skirmish, competing and celebrating the opening of Full Sail's Esports Arena, created Shroud's Theme Song, Being Streamlabs top streamer merch seller of all time, being in the top 100 most subscribed to channels on Twitch, leading the charge as the pioneer of music streaming on Twitch (also partnering with Twitch to make the official how-to guides on streaming music on Twitch's Help Page.)
Matt has co-founded the Metal & Hon
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Matt Heafy
American singer and guitarist
Not to be confused with Matty Healy.
Matthew Kiichi Heafy (HAY-fee; born January 26, 1986)[1] is a Japanese-American musician, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for heavy metal band Trivium.[2] He was also the lead vocalist for the band Capharnaum, along with Trivium's former producer Jason Suecof. In 2017, Heafy was voted sixth on the Ultimate Guitar list "Top 25 Greatest Modern Frontmen".[3]
Early life
Heafy was born in Iwakuni, Japan, to a Japanese mother and an American father. His father, formerly a member of the United States Marine Corps, is half-Irish and half-German.[4] Heafy has a younger sister, Michelle, who is now a YouTuber.[5] Although Heafy was born in Japan, he only lived there for one year and does not speak Japanese fluently; however, he uses some basic phrases when he performs in Japan.[6] His family then moved to Orlando, Florida, where he currently resides. Heafy attended Lake Brantley High School. He completed his senior year wh
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Line-up:
Matthew Kiichi Heafy | Vocals, Guitar
Say the name TRIVIUM and reverence follows. That’s because in the annals of modern metal there are few stories more illustrious or celebrated than the one that began with that group of impossibly young Floridian misfits dreaming of the lighted stage over 20 years ago. In the time since those heady days, their career has been burnished by the kind of triumphs wrought by the sweaty toil of relentless touring and the steady anvil-beat of landmark releases that have won them a legion of fans around the world. Just as TRIVIUM have tirelessly forged their careers, so too have those ceaseless hammer-blows shaped Matthew Kiichi Heafy who, with each passing year, has taken shape as an artist, songwriter and thrilling frontman on stage, and one of metal’s most compelling voices when he’s off.
Given the close intertwining of Matt and TRIVIUM’s stories, you’d have thought the two would be inseparable, but not so, because IBARAKI – the name for a terrifyin
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