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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Salon Culture in Japan
- Kabuki heroes on the Osaka stage, 1780-1830
- Shunga
- Karumen Oyoshi
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Film & TV
Tokyo, Japan
Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子, Yano Akiko, born Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 顕子, Suzuki Akiko); February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. She has been called "one of the major musical talents of the Japanese popular music world", and her vocals and singing style have been compared to English singer Kate Bush.
Known for
- Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era — Self2024
- Akiko Yano × Hiromi – Step Into Paradise -Live In Tokyo- — Self2024
- tiny desk concerts JAPAN — Piano･Keyboard･Vocal2024
- ELLEGARDEN: Lost & Found2022
- Ponyo — Ponyo's Sister (voice)2008
- House Hunting — (Voice)2006
- Mon Mon the Water Spider — Mon Mon / Miss Pond Skater / Water flea (voice)2006
- Complete Hurrah — Self1999
- My Neighbors the Yamadas — Teacher Fujihara (voice)1999
- YMO – Live At Budokan 1980 — self1993
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30,254
- Total plays
- 1,580,038
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Akiko Yano is a Japanese pop and jazz musician. Her music is by turns playful, heartfelt, melodic, ornate, and disarmingly simple, reflecting a love of music in all its forms and colors. She handles moody new wave, virtuosic fusion, traditional jazz ballads, straightahead pop, and singer-songwriter folk songs with equal aplomb. Though she's recorded with many of the 20th century's greatest pop and jazz musicians, her primarily Japanese-language albums have kept her music below the radar of mo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Akiko
- Family name
- Suzuki
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Tokyo
- Spouse
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Child
- Miu Sakamoto
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Philips Records
- Official website
- thegathering.jp
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1955-02-13
- name in kana
- やの あきこ
- birth name
- 鈴木 顕子
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- social media followers
- 27100
- name in native language
- 矢野 顕子
- official shop URL
- www.rocket-exp.com/s/R/artist/235015/item?site=R
- number of viewers/listeners
- 9028442
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