Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko (ONO Yōko), born February 18 1933) is a Japanese-American artist and musician. She gained international fame because of her marriage to English musician John Lennon. She currently lives in New York City.
Despite having a kanji reading, Ono's name appears in katakana (ヨーコ・オノ Yōko Ono) in the Japanese press and on album credits.
Yoko Ono was born in 1933. Her mother was Isoko Ono, of the Yasuda banking family, and her father was Eisuke Ono, who worked for the Yokohama Specie Bank. Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco. The rest of the family followed soon after. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Yoko was enrolled at the Tokyo's Peers' School, the most exclusive school in Japan, open only to those descended from aristocrats (in the House of Peers) or the imperial family.
In 1940, the family moved to New York where Yoko's father was working. In 1941, her father was transferred to Hanoi and the...
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