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Yoko Ono Biography

Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist born February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan.

Her work also includes performance art, both in English and Japanese, as well as filmmaking. Her third husband was singer, songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles. She studied at Gakushuin University, but withdrew from her course after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family.

Yoko Ono Daughter | Yoko Ono Children

Ono has two children, namely; Kyoko Ono Cox and Sean Lennon.

Yoko Ono Family

Ono is the daughter of a wealthy banker and former classical pianist, Isoko Ono and Eisuke Ono. The maternal grandfather of Isoko, Zenjiro Yasuda, was a Yasuda clan and zaibatsu affiliate. Eisuke came from a long line of warrior – scholars from the samurai. Yōko’s kanji translation means “ocean kid.”

Yoko Ono Net Worth

Ono has a net worth of $600 million.

Yoko Ono Spouse

Ono has been in four marriages. Ono was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi in 1956; and divorced in 1962. She then got married to Anthony Cox in 1962 and annulled 1963. Again in 1963, she married another man called Anthony Cox but divorced in 1969. Her last marriage was with John Lennon in 1969. He died 1980.

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Yoko Ono Songs | Yoko Ono Music

Studio albums

Singles

Yoko Ono Beatles

The Beatles were a 1960 formed English rock band in Liverpool. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr’s line-up led the band to be considered the foremost and most influential in history. With a sound rooted in skiffle, beat and rock and roll in the 1950s, the band was an integral part of the evolution of pop music into an art form and the development of the 1960s counterculture.
In a car accident in June 1969, Lennon and Ono were wounded, partly by recording Abbey Road. A bed with a microphone was then installed in the studio, according to journalist Barry Miles, so that Ono could make artistic comments about the album. Miles thought Ono’s continued presence in the studio during the latter part of the Beatles ‘ career put strain on Lennon’s relationship with the other band members.
After taking one of his chocolate digestive biscuits without asking, George Harrison verbally attacked her. The English press dubbed her “the woman who broke up the Beatles,” but Ono said that without her direct involvement, the Beatles broke up themselves.

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

The Plastic Ono Band was a rock band formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 as a vehicle for their collaborative and solo projects. In 1968, Lennon and Ono had started a personal and artistic relationship, working together on several experimental releases. After their marriage in 1969, they decided to give credit to a conceptual and collaborative vehicle, Plastic Ono Band, for all their future endeavors.

Yoko Ono Grapefruit

Another seminal piece of conceptual art is Ono’s small book Grapefruit. The book was first published in 1964 and reads as a set of instructions that complete the work of art, either literally or in the participant’s imagination. One example is “Hide and Seek Piece: Hide until everyone goes home. Hide until everyone forgets you. Hide until everyone dies.” Grapefruit was published several times, mostly distributed in 1971 by Simon & Schuster, who reproduced it in 2000.

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