Nokko Musical artist
Nokko (born November 4, 1963) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She was the lead singer of the band "Rebecca" which had a string of hits in Japan in the 1980s. She was born in Urawa, Saitama, as Nobuko Yamada (山田 信子, Yamada Nobuko). As Nokko, she had hits in Japan with her solo career throughout the 1990s, as well as releasing an English language album in the US with production and mixes by both Goh Hotoda and Francois Kevorkian.In 1990, she married Takehiko Kogure, the former group leader of Rebecca. They divorced in 1993. In 2002, she married Goh Hotoda, a well-known 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.Her song "Ningyo" (mermaid) (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.
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| Career started | 1983 |
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| Background | Solo singer |
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