Miki Yamanaka
Japanese musician
About Miki Yamanaka
Born 1990. Miki Yamanaka is a jazz organist.
Miki Yamanaka (born 1990) is a Japanese jazz musician currently living in New York City.
Miki Yamanaka lived in Kyoto until she was 10, when she moved to Kobe. She moved to New York in 2012 and took a compositional residency at the Kennedy Center in 2015. For her first gig after the pandemic, Yamanaka wore a kimono outfit to honor her mother; since then she has dressed in one every time she plays.
Discography
As leader Miki (2018, Cellar Live) Human Dust Suite (2020, Outside In Music) Stairway to the Stars (2021, Outside In Music) Shades of Rainbow (2023, Cellar Music) Chance (2024, Cellar Music)
As guest
Adi Meyerson - I Want To Sing My Heart Out in Praise of Life (2021, Independent)
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Japanese musician
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Miki Yamanaka was born in 1990 in Kobe.
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Miki Yamanaka is a jazz organist.
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