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Yoko Ono

This article is about the Japanese multimedia artist and peace activist. For the Japanese judoka, see Yoko Ono (judoka). For the song, see Yoko Ono (song).
The native form of this personal name is Ono Yoko. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Yoko Ono
小野 洋子
オノ・ヨーコ
Ono in 2016
Born (1933-02-18) February 18, 1933 (age 91)
Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Other namesYoko Ono Lennon
Education
Occupations
  • Artist
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • peace activist
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(m. 1956; div. 1962)​
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(m. 1963; div. 1969)​
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(m. 1969; died 1980)​
Children2, including Sean Ono Lennon
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • percussion
  • piano
  • keyboards
DiscographyFull list
Years active1961–2021
Labels
Formerly ofPlastic Ono Band
Websiteimaginepeace.com
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Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana 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.[1]

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 Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s. She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. To date, she has had twelve number one singles on the US Dance charts, and in 2016 was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine.[2] Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon, including Elvis Costello who recorded his version of "Walking on Thin Ice" with The Attractions for the Every Man Has a Woman tribute album to Yoko Ono, the B-52's,[3] Sonic Youth[4] and Meredith Monk.[5]

As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park,[6] the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland,[7] and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan (which closed in 2010).[8] She has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and disaster relief in Japan and the Philippines,[9][10] and other such causes. In 2002, she inaugurated a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace.[11] In 2012, she received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award[12] and co-founded the group Artists Against Fracking.[13]

  1. ^ "Yoko Ono retrospective opens in Frankfurt". Yahoo Malaysia. February 16, 2013. Archived from the original on September 12, 2013. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  2. ^ "Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists : Page 1". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 7, 2017.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "SYR4 – Goodbye 20th Century". NME. December 1, 1999. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014.
  5. ^ "Meredith Monk: Songs That Defy Time and Country | New Sounds | Hand-picked music, genre free". newsounds. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  6. ^ "Strawberry Fields". www.centralpark.com. May 6, 2021. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  7. ^ Ono, Yoko. "IMAGINE PEACE TOWER". IMAGINE PEACE TOWER. Archived from the original on October 3, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  8. ^ "John Lennon Museum". JapanVisitor Japan Travel Guide. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  9. ^ Vozick-Levinson, Simon; Vozick-Levinson, Simon (March 18, 2011). "Yoko Ono Talks Japan Disaster and Relief Concert". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  10. ^ "¥5 Million New Year's Gift from Yoko Ono to Ondoy Victims | Philippine Embassy – Tokyo, Japan". Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  11. ^ "Lennon Ono peace grants awarded". October 9, 2006. Archived from the original on May 29, 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  12. ^ "Yoko Ono Awarded Germany's Highest Human Rights Medal". Artlyst. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  13. ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (August 31, 2012). "The Celebrity Campaign Against Fracking: How Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Rallied an Outcry". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.

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