Lisa Ono

Lisa Ono (小野リサ; born 29 July 1962) is a Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova singer.

Life Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10.

Although she lived in Brazil for only a short time, she was turned into a type of "MPB (Brazilian popular music) ambassador" in Japan, influenced by her father, who owned a club while living in Brazil and was also Baden Powell's agent.

Lisa began singing and playing the guitar at age 15 and her debut as a professional Bossa Nova singer was in 1989. Her natural voice, rhythmic guitar playing, and her charming smile led her to a huge success and popularized Bossa Nova in Japan. She has performed with many top musicians such as Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Donato and has been performing enthusiastically in New York City, Brazil and Asian countries. The 1999 album Dream sold more than two hundred thousand copies in Japan and since then she has established a determined position in the Japanese Bossa Nova community.

Career After moving to Japan, Lisa's father opened a new venue called Saci-Pererê, a Brazilian restaurant where she started performing mainly bossa nova and samba. Besides singing, Lisa Ono plays the guitar and is a songwriter. Her first album, Catupiry, was released in 1989. She has not stopped recording since then, releasing one disc a year, mostly in Portuguese.

In March 2019, her song Sway It, Hula Girl from the album Bossa Hula Nova was sampled on Freddie Dredd's song Cha Cha, which subsequently became popular on the short form video app TikTok.

Discography 1989.10.21 – CATUPIRY (MIDI) 1990.04.21 – NaNã 1991.07.21 – menina (BMG) 1992.06.21 – SERENATA CARIOCA 1993.01.21 – Namorada 1994.06.22 – Esperanca 1995.04.21 – Minha Saudade 1996.11.21 – RIO BOSSA 1997.11.19 – ESSENCIA 1997 – Amigos 1998.07.16 – BOSSA CARIOCA 1999.06.23 – DREAM 2000.07.05 – Pretty World 2000.11.16 – Boas Festas 2001.07.11 – Bossa Hula Nova 2002.07.10 – Questa Bossa Mia... 2003.07.16 – DANS MON ILE 2004.06.23 – NAIMA～meu anjo～ 2004.11.17 – Boas Festas2～Feliz Natal～ 2005.06.29 – Romance Latino vol.1 2005.07.27 – Romance Latino vol.2 2005.08.24 – Romance Latino vol.3 2006.07.12 – Jambalaya -Bossa Americana- 2007.07.11 – Soul & Bossa 2007.11.21 – Music Of Antonio Carlos Jobim: Ipanema 2009.03.04 – Cheek To Cheek -Jazz Standards from RIO 2009.03.04 – Look To The Rainbow – Jazz Standards from L.A 2010.03.05 – ASIA 2011.10.26 – Japão 2013.06.19 – Japão2 2014.05.21 – Brasil 2014.09.14 – Japao 3 2015.07.01 – My Favorite Songs 2016.04.26 – Dancing Bossa 2017.06.07 - GIOPIO

Collections 1991.11.21 – O Melhor De Lisa (MIDI) 1997.06.28 – AMIGOS 1998.06.24 – Selecao (BMG) 2000.02.23 – Colecao～the collection 2002.03.06 – Ono Lisa Best 1997–2001 (EMI) 2005.12.07 – Romance Latino Selection 2008.05.21 – Ono Lisa Best 2002–2006 (EMI) 2008.05.21 – Ono Lisa Best 1989–1996 (MIDI, BMG) 2021.05.10 _ Lisa Ono: #BeefBeefChallenge 2021.08.29 _ Lisa Onds!! ( EMI )