Yoko ono brief biography
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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, 1933) 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 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 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, 1980. Together, they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician.
Ono began a career in popular music in 1969, forming the Pl
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Summary of Yoko Ono
Well before her famous partnership with John Lennon, Yoko Ono was the "High Priestess of the Happening" and a pioneer in performance art. Drawing from an array of sources from Zen Buddhism to Dada, her pieces were some of the movement's earliest and most daring. With unprecedented radicalism, she rejected the idea that an artwork must be a material object. Many of her works consist merely of instructions. In Cloud Piece (1963) for example, she instructs us to imagine digging a hole in the garden, and putting clouds into it. Ono faced the considerable challenge of remaining visible as an artist, not just a rock star's wife. For brief periods, the media's intrusive presence stopped her from working altogether. Remarkably, however, she persisted in sustaining a career that was well-established before Lennon's arrival on the scene, and which deserves to be admired in its own right.
Accomplishments
- Ono's fundamental contribution to the formation of Conceptual
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
オノ・ヨーコYoko Ono in February 2016
Born (1933-02-18) February 18, 1933 (age 91)
Tokyo, JapanGenres avant-garde, rock, pop, electronica, Shibuya kei, Fluxus Occupation(s) Artist, Musician, Peace Activist Instruments Vocals, piano Years active 1961–present Labels Apple, Geffen, Polydor, Rykodisc, Astralwerks, Chimera Music Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanesemusician and artist. She is the widow of John Lennon. Before she married Lennon she was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi from 1956 to 1963 and Anthony Cox from 1963 to 1969. She has two children, Kyoko Chan Cox (with Cox) and Sean Lennon (with Lennon).
Early life
[change | change source]Both of her parents came from wealthy families. Her father, who was a descendant of a former Emperor of Japan,[1] had been a concert pianist before giving up music to become a banker. Ono was tutored privately, then sent to exclusive private sc