Biography of yoko ono
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana as オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, ) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo in the Plastic Ono Band. The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War with what they called a bed-in. She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, the Dakota, on December 8, Together, they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician.
Ono began a career in popular music in , forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the s. She achieved commercial and critical success in with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. To date, she has had twelve number one singles on the US Dance charts, and in was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine. Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon, including Elvis Costello who recorded his version of "Walking on Thin Ice" with The Attractions for the Every Man Has a Woman tribute album to Yoko Ono, the B's, Sonic Youth and Meredith Monk.
As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan (which closed in ). She has made significant philanthropi Japanese artist and activist (born ) This article is about the Japanese multimedia artist and peace activist. For the Japanese judoka, see Yoko Ono (judoka). For the song, see Yoko Ono (song). The native form of this personal name is Ono Yoko. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals. Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized:&#;Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana as オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, ) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo in the Plastic Ono Band. The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War with what they called a bed-in. She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, the Dakota, on December 8, Together, they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician. Ono began a career in popular music in , forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the s. She achieved commercial and critical success in with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. To date, she has had twelve number one singles on the US Dance charts, and in was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine. Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon, including Elvis Costello who recorded his version of "Walking on Thin Ice" with The Attractions for the Eve Yoko Ono Yoko Ono in February Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, born February 18, ) is a Japanesemusician and artist. She is the widow of John Lennon. Before she married Lennon she was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi from to and Anthony Cox from to She has two children, Kyoko Chan Cox (with Cox) and Sean Lennon (with Lennon). Both of her parents came from wealthy families. Her father, who was a descendant of a former Emperor of Japan, had been a concert pianist before giving up music to become a banker. Ono was tutored privately, then sent to exclusive private schools, studying classical music and art, and also learning English. She visited the United States before World War II with her family. Her father was on a business trip to the U.S. when the war began, and was detained with many other Japanese in the country. He was not able to communicate with his family for many years. Ono's mother took her, her brother and sister away from Tokyo, and they stayed in a rural area. After the war ended, the family was reunited, and moved to New York for her father's job. Ono enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College, but quit during her third year. She became interested in avant-garde art and music, and began writing poetry. Many of her poems were instructions, for creating pieces of art. She later published some of these in a book, titled Grapefruit. Her parents were not happy that Ono chose to make her own way, rather than following her family's wishes for her life. When she married Toshi Ichiyanagi, a young pianist, her parents disowned her. The marriage did not work out, and Ono rented a loft apartmen But Maciunas was an inveterate organizer—a problem, since he happened to be working with avant-garde artists, the kind of people who don’t like to be organized. For years, he tried to herd those cats. He opened FluxShop, where Fluxus art—mostly cheap plastic boxes filled with odds and ends—could be purchased. (Walk-in business was not brisk.) At one point, he made plans to buy an island and build a self-sufficient Fluxus community on it. “We’re out of ‘I Voted’ stickers. There are some ‘I Gave Blood’ ones, but I’d have to cut you.” Cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby The island venture did not pan out, but Maciunas would finally realize his idea by buying and renovating abandoned buildings—more than twenty of them—in downtown Manhattan for artists to live and work in. The enterprise ruined him. He was sued by the tenants because the renovations were not up to code and the lofts could not pass inspection, and he was badly beaten by goons hired by one of his creditors. In the mid-seventies, he fled the city for a farm in Massachusetts, where he died, of cancer, in But he had given birth to SoHo. It would become, in the nineteen-eighties, the world capital of contemporary art. Maciunas’s slogan for Fluxus was “Purge the world of ‘Europanism’!,” and at the Fluxus début, in West Germany in , a grand piano was smashed to bits. Ono, who was invited but declined to attend, was not into breaking pianos. “I am not somebody who wants to burn ‘The Mona Lisa,’ ” she once said. “That’s the difference between some revolutionaries and me.” But she does share something with Maciunas. She is a utopian. She would be happy if the whole world could be a Fluxus island. In , Ono returned to Japan. She discovered that the Japanese avant-garde was even more radical than the New York avant-garde. There were many new schools. The most famous today is Gutai, which originated in Osaka in Like Fluxus, Gutai was a performative, low-tech, everyday-materials kind of art. One of the Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
オノ・ヨーコBorn () February 18, (age&#;91)
Tokyo, JapanGenres avant-garde, rock, pop, electronica, Shibuya kei, Fluxus Occupation(s) Artist, Musician, Peace Activist Instruments Vocals, piano Years active –present Labels Apple, Geffen, Polydor, Rykodisc, Astralwerks, Chimera Music Early life
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