Akiko Yano
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Emerging from Tokyo and raised in Aomori, she began piano lessons at three, left high school and moved to the capital at fifteen to join the jazz scene, becoming a studio musician by seventeen. Her breakthrough came with the 1976 debut Japanese Girl, a Los Angeles-recorded album that blended jazz, pop, blues and folk and secured instant fame, followed by self-produced releases and collaborations w…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
