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矢野顕子

(Akiko Yano)

Over the course of a career that has spanned more than four decades Akiko Yano has straddled genres ranging from disco to electronic to funk to new wave to synthpop, but it's for jazz-styled j-pop that she is perhaps best-known. Her sense of whimsy and mischief have seen her compared to Kate Bush. Born Akiko Suzuki in 1955, Yano got her start in music studying jazz piano in high school and by 1976 she had recorded her first album, 'Japanese Girl', in Los Angeles with Lowell George and Little Feat. She was briefly married to Makoto Yano, the producer on 'Japanese Girl', but ...