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Description: This is the website of San Francisco Bay Area jazz vocalist Saki Kono and her new CD "Dream Passage."
The website of San Francisco Bay Area jazz vocalist Saki Kono
SAKI KONO is a jazz vocalist, composer, lyricist, and arranger who creates music inspired by her Japanese background and has a love for jazz standards. She may be shy, but she likes to have fun, to experiment with different ideas through arrangements, and to let people experience her musical vision. In addition to many classic standards, her repertoire includes pop songs and jazz arrangements of Japanese songs.
Born in Kyoto and raised in Tokyo, Saki currently calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. As a child, her father—himself a jazz vocalist in his youth—often listened to jazz artists like Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, Dinah Washington, Tony Bennett, and Miles Davis, which motivated Saki to study piano. She added guitar to the mix and wrote music through her teenage years, influenced by many genres including soul, rock (especially The Beatles), and Japanese pop songs. She felt that the music took
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