Born in 1950 in Kobe, Japan, he moved to Europe in the late 1960s where he was spotted busking in Munich, West Germany, by Can bassist Holger Czukay and drummer Jaki Liebezeit.

Can had just split with their vocalist Malcolm Mooney, and asked Suzuki to sing over tracks from their 1970 compilation album Soundtracks.

[1] Afterwards, he became their full time singer, appearing on the three influential[2] albums Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyası (1972) and Future Days (1973).

[4] In his teens, Damo "gradually became dissatisfied with aspects of Japanese society and felt some kinship with the country's various protest movements".

Suzuki boarded the Trans-Siberian Railway bearing his guitar, clarinet, and sax, and arrived in Gräsmark in February 1968, where he was soon joined by his friend Shuji Kawamukai.

[6] However, Suzuki changed the plans soon after and set off on his journey across Europe spending about six months across "Germany, France, Switzerland, and Finland".

[10] In late May 1970, Damo Suzuki was busking outside Blow Up club in Munich when he was approached by the members of Can, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit, who invited him to join their performance that evening.

[19][20] Suzuki's vocals became more confident and defining with Can's 1972 album Ege Bamyası, as evidenced in the songs "Vitamin C" and "Spoon".

[21][22] Following the album's release, Suzuki quit the band and joined the Jehovah's Witnesses, taking a break from music for the following decade.

[27] His career was briefly revived in 2022 following the well received album Arkaoda, recorded in conjunction with "Spiritczualic Enhancement Center" musical project.

As recalled by Irmin Schmidt: "a young Japanese woman from Düsseldorf appeared at Damo's place and started working on him.

[24] During his break from music, Suzuki became a Jehovah's Witness but left the organisation, considering himself a believer in the Bible without membership in any denomination or church.

According to Birgitta, "he wanted to take her back with him to Japan and open a record shop together, but first he needed to carry on travelling around the world in order to finance the plane tickets required to attain that distant dream".

In 2004, Suzuki told an interviewer he was an anarchist, saying he didn't believe in any kind of politician and not so interested in economic things and materialism, so it's my dream to continue this so that people get a feeling that brings them much more together.

[33] Suzuki's free-form, often improvised, lyrics were largely indiscernible, leading many critics to think they were sung in no particular language.