Nokko
Sign in to saveNokko (born November 4, 1963) is a Japanese singer. She was the lead singer of the popular band Rebecca, which had a string of hits in Japan in the 1980s. Nokko was born in Urawa, Saitama, as . Under her stage name Nokko, she also had multiple hits in Japan throughout her solo career in the 1990s, and released an English-language album in the US produced and mixed by Goh Hotoda and Francois Kevorkian.
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- 1
Top works
- Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Tokyo, September 12, 1967, Nikko, September 13-16, 1967
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1963-11-04
Discography
- ハレルヤ1992
- I Will Catch U.1993
- Call Me Nightlife1993
- 人魚1994
- ライブがはねたら1994
- colored1994
- 天使のラブソング1996
- RHYMING CAFÉ1996
- 恋はあせらず / GO GO HAPPY DAY1997
- 水の中の小さな太陽1997
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- 7,202
- Total plays
- 143,663
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Nokko (born in 1963 under the name Nobuko Yamada) is a Japanese singer. In 1984, she debuted at the lead singer of the band Rebecca. She married guitarist Takehiko Kogure of the Red Warriors in 1990. Rebecca broke up in 1991, and she launched her solo career as Nokko. While Rebecca focused mainly on bubblegum pop, Nokko drew from a wide range of musical styles: from the laid-back jazz of "No Return" and the African drum rhythms of "Inochi" to the Industrial Dance Music of "Metallic Mother. <
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- nokko.jp
- Height
- 153
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1963-11-03
- name in native language
- NOKKO
- birth name
- 山田 信子
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- social media followers
- 6210
- name in kana
- ノッコ
- married name
- 保土田 信子
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Nokko (born November 4, 1963) is a Japanese singer. She was the lead singer of the popular band Rebecca, which had a string of hits in Japan in the 1980s. Nokko was born in Urawa, Saitama, as . Under her stage name Nokko, she also had multiple hits in Japan throughout her solo career in the 1990s, and released an English-language album in the US produced and mixed by Goh Hotoda and Francois Kevorkian.
==History== In 1990, she married Takehiko Kogure, former group leader of Rebecca. They divorced in 1993. In 2002, she married Goh Hotoda, a sound engineer who has mixed hit singles for artists including Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Hikaru Utada. They now live in Atami, Japan, where on August 1, 2006, the couple welcomed the birth of their daughter, Kano.