Internationally acclaimed smooth jazz, jazz fusion, and New Age keyboardist who also discovered famed Saxophonist Paul Taylor. In 1999 and 2000, she won Oasis Awards for Artist of the Year.
She was a student of children's culture at Japan Women's University and a music student at the Yamaha Music Foundation.
Her 1987 solo debut LP, "A Drop of Water," was dedicated to the memory of those who had perished in the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Her mother Emiko started her on piano lessons soon after she turned five.
She attended the reception for former U.S. President George W. Bush when he visited Japan in 2002.
