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Yoko Ono |
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Birth Place: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday:February 18, 1933
Height:5' 4"
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- In 1975 gave birth to Sean Taro Ono Lennon.
- In 1963 gave birth to Kyoko Chan Cox.
- In 1982 she won the Grammy Award in the Album of the Year category for Double Fantasy with John Lennon and Jack Douglas.
- Avante-guard poet, performance artist, composer, and vocalist.
- In 1959, she moved to join her family in Scarsdale, New York, where she attended Sarah Lawrence College.
- Mother of Kyoko Ono Cox and Sean Lennon.
- Her name translates into English as "Ocean Child".
- Before meeting John Lennon, the only Beatle Ono knew by name was Ringo, as the word means "apple" in Japanese.
- After her husband John Lennon was fatally shot, she took a photograph of his bloodstained eyeglasses laying on the pavement. In 2002, this photo sold for thousands of dollars.
- Returned to music in 1995 with her son Sean Lennon and his band Ima Rising.
- Played her first public concert at the age of four, and her first composition "Secret Piece" was in 1955.
- As a child she attended the prestigious Jiyu-gakuen Music School in Japan, the training school for many Japanese composers. She was taught piano and composition, as well as voice training in both opera and German Lied singing.
- Measurements: 34C-26-36 (at time of "Two Virgins" LP), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Owns the copyrights and masters to her Apple Records releases, including "Two Virgins" and "Life With The Lions", recorded with 'John Lennon' ; with none of the records initially selling well, Lennon had to pay Apple for them, as part of the Beatles' partnership settlement. In the 1990s, with interest regenerated, Ono re-released her music through Ryko, after turning down another label that only wanted her albums with John.
- Ranked #84 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
- The term "Yoko factor", referring to the influence of wives or girlfriends on a band's politics or business, comes from her constant presence (and kibitzing) at latter-day Beatles recording sessions. (John broke the longstanding no-wives-or-girlfriends rule the Beatles had in the studio, to bring her there.)
- In 2003, at the age of 70, she topped the US dance music charts with a reworking of "Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him", a song she co-wrote with John Lennon, to support gay marriage: "Every Man Has A Man Who Loves Him". She also recorded a lesbian version of the song.
- Elton John is the godfather of her son Sean Lennon
- Some time after her husband's murder, Ono began a relationship with antiques dealer Sam Havadtoy, which lasted until 2001. They were never legally married.
- Appointed Honorary Ambassador of Peace for the Harvey Ball Foundation along with Jackie Chan, Brooke Shields, A.V.T. Shankardass, Jerry Lewis, Prince Albert of Monaco, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Phil Collins, Jimmy Buffett, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Heather Mills, Patch Adams, Sergei Khrushchev and Winnie Mandela.
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