Nokko


Nokko is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer. 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 Nobuko Yamada. 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 Utada Hikaru. 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", which was her 4th solo single on her 4th solo album, "Colored", was the theme song for the 1994 drama Toki o Kakeru Shōjo starring Yuki Uchida.

Discography

Original albums

  1. Hallelujah
  2. I Will Catch U.
  3. Call Me Nightlife
  4. Colored
  5. Rhyming Cafe
  6. Veranda no Kishibe
  7. Viaje
  8. Kiss
  9. THE NOKKO STORY
  10. TRUE WOMAN

    Compilation albums

  11. The Best of Nokko
  12. Remix Nokko
  13. Nokko's Selection, Nokko's Best

    Singles

  14. Crazy Clouds
  15. Kiseki no Wedding March
  16. I Will Catch U
  17. Vivace
  18. Ningyo
  19. Live ga Hanetara
  20. Antenna
  21. Parade
  22. Tenshi no Love Song
  23. Natural
  24. You Can't Hurry Love
  25. Mizu no Naka de Chiisa na Taiyō
  26. Haruyuki Usagi
  27. Wasurenagusa
  28. Friends
  29. Hiru no Tsuki
  30. Kiss ga Kikoeru/I Love You''