Nokko

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.

Legacy Nokko's song "Ningyo" (mermaid), which was her fourth solo single on her fourth solo album Colored, was the theme song for the 1994 drama Toki o Kakeru Shōjo starring Yuki Uchida.

Discography

Original albums Hallelujah (1992) I Will Catch U. (1993) Call Me Nightlife (1993) Colored (1994) Rhyming Cafe (1996) (1998) Viaje (2000) Kiss (2010) THE NOKKO STORY (2013) TRUE WOMAN (2018)

Compilation albums The Best of Nokko (1997) Remix Nokko (2000) Nokko's Selection, Nokko's Best (2006)

Singles Crazy Clouds (1992) (1992) I Will Catch U (1993) Vivace (1993) (1994) (1994) (1995) (1995) (1996) Natural (1996) (1997) (1997) (1998) (1998) (1999) (1999) (2000)