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Wajihuddin bin Wajiran (born August 9, 1997), best known as Rionoeru (Japanese pronunciation of Rio Noel) is a Malaysian semi-professional musician and a musical artist, best known for being the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the band Heartbeat Revolution, and for covering ST 12's "Jangan Pernah Berubah" on his debut show, which is currently on his performance set for any tours and events.

Early Life
Rio is born on August 9, 1997. At the age of 5, he is diagnosed with Congenital Aortic Stenosis (might also be known as Aortic Valve Stenosis). He started playing guitar on 2011, at the age of 14, but stopped on 2012, due to upcoming exam that he's sitting, Malaysia's Penilaian Menengah Rendah.

Musical Career
Rio started his musical career as singer and DJ (remixer) on 2010, performing at several festivals in Sabah. He continues to perform as a cover-singer until 2013, where he decided to go into rock and metal.

Recently, he's reportedly that he's now recording his debut album, entitled "Noelle (My Girl)".

Rio on Heartbeat Revolution
On mid-March 2014, he founded Heartbeat Revolution, along with his friends from several schools. Since they don't want to reveal their real name, they used a fake name (which they called 'callsign'), and often used masks to hide their face.

His last performance with them was on last year's New Years' Eve (December 31st, 2014), in Likas Stadium, Malaysia.

Since then, Rio decided to 'call it a day' for the band (go onto hiatus), with his musical band project is now "at the end", since most of the band members will continue their tertiary studies.

Rio and Arie
Arion Arie Darrian, or shortly Arie, is Rio's official character (mascot), and he will introduce Arie every time before he performs another song. It is reported that Arie will

Equipments
For guitars, Rio is an Ibanez and a Schecter user, but he also loves to use any guitar, regardless of features present in the guitar.

In an interview with local music movement journalist team, Slam Entertainment MY, he stated that he prefers to use a guitar equipped with a vibrato-system and a sustainer-integrated systems, such as Sustainiac's Stealth Pro and Fernandes Guitars' Sustainer System. He also state that he didn't care about playing other guitars without sustainer and vibrato systems - and said: "Music is all about fun and passion. If you have fun in music but don't have passion in it, or vice versa, it would create lots and LOTS of trouble!"

For basses, Rio mainly uses Ibanez basses.

Some of his notable musical instruments (while on tour with Heartbeat Revolution) are:

Guitars

Note: All of these guitars have been modified at Arvita's Repair/Change Musical Instruments Shop, before he uses it for stage/event performances.


 * Rita-chan (Custom-modified Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR S)

Rio was using this guitar while going on his last tour with Heartbeat Revolution, before going onto hiatus. He nicknamed this guitar "Rita-chan" as this guitar is applied with Vesperia's "Rita Mordio" official art, right-beside the tremolo bridge. The bridge pickup, EMG 81-7, has been replaced by DiMarzio's Blaze™ Bridge Model DP702. Apart from Vesperia's "Rita" official art, Vesperia's logo are also applied on the fretboard, with Rita's name in Vesperian alphabets beside the logo.

Rio has been reported to have used this guitar again on several Sabah events this year, with the speculations that he'll be performing for Sabah's Harvest Day, which occurs on May 30th and 31st.

As this guitar have Vesperia's "Rita" featured (which is one of his most favorite Vesperia character, and one of his admired/favorable "Tales of" series character), this is his most used guitar.


 * Yuri-kun/Raven-kun (Custom-modified Herman Li's Ibanez EGEN18)

Rio has two of these guitars custom-modded into two versions, one for tribute to Rio's favorite Vesperia's character, Yuri Lowell (nicknamed Yuri-kun); and the other one is for tribute to Vesperia's Raven (nicknamed Raven-kun). Both have similarities in almost every part of the guitar - except "Yuri-kun" neck pickup has been replaced with Sustainiac Stealth Pro Sustainer system, while "Raven-kun" neck pickup has been replaced with Fernandes Guitars' Sustainer system; replacing the stock neck pickup, which is a DiMarzio® HLM. Like his 'Rita-chan', the official arts of Yuri and Raven are applied right-beside the tremolo bridge, but with the differences that both guitars only shows their name in Vesperian alphabets on the headstock, while the logo is on the fretboard.

The "Yuri-kun SE" and "Raven-kun SE", are the 'Special Edition' custom-modified Herman Li's Ibanez EGEN18, which equipped with Seymour Duncan's Synyster Gates Signature Pickup Gold SH-8 Invader on the neck and bridge pickup, replacing both DiMarzio® HLMs, while the middle pickup has been equipped with DiMarzio SDS-1™, which also replaces the single-coil DiMarzio® HLM.

These are the custom modifications that have been applied:


 * 1) "Yuri-kun" - The guitar's bridge pickup, DiMarzio® HLM, has been replaced by Seymour Duncan's Synyster Gates Signature Pickup Gold SH-8 Invader, while the guitar's middle pickup, which is also a DiMarzio® HLM - but in single-coil (Strat) shape, has been replaced by DiMarzio's Super Distortion® S DP218.


 * 1) "Raven-kun" - The guitar's bridge pickup has been replaced by DiMarzio's Steve’s Special™, while the guitar's middle pickup has been replaced by Seymour Duncan's JB Jr.™ SJBJ-1. The guitar itself has its color being change to match with Raven's outfit color, which is about light-purple, as the guitar's color is "Transparent Violet Flat" (more like purple-ish).