Mateus Asato


Mateus Asato is a guitarist from Campo Grande, Brazil: he now lives in Los Angeles. He rose to fame through by posting videos of himself playing guitar on Instagram: he now has . He has toured with several pop stars as a guitarist. He also has his own signature guitar with Suhr Guitars.

Career

In 2013 he attended the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, California. His career began when industry professionals discovered him through his Instagram account. He then toured with Tori Kelly and Jessie J. Asato also began to do guitar clinics in South Korea and in Singapore. In 2019 Guitar Magazine named him one of the 50 most exciting young guitarists in the world.

Signature guitar

The boutique guitar company, Suhr Guitars, released a signature guitar for Asato. At the 2020 Namm show Suhr guitars revealed a new Mateus Asato signature guitar would be released soon.

Awards

He has developed his own fingerstyle method of picking; heavily reliant on hybrid picking. His playing style incorporates jazz-influences, double stops, and complex single-string and chord slides. Guitar World magazine called his style Neo Soul.

Personal

His grandparents were of Japanese descent and came from Okinawa, Japan. He began playing guitar at ten. In 2013, when he was 19 years old, he moved to Los Angeles, California.