Yoko Ono Lennon is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist. She was married to English singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles from 1969 until his murder in 1980. The feminist themes of her music have influenced musicians as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith Monk.
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Yoko Ono Lennon is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art, which she performs in both English and Japanese, and filmmaking. She was married to English singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles from 1969 until his murder in 1980. The feminist themes of her music have influenced musicians as diverse as the B-52s and Meredith Monk. She achieved commercial and critical acclaim in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family. She became involved in New York City’s downtown artists scene, which included the Fluxus group. In spite of her parents’ disapproval, Ono loved meeting artists, poets, and others who represented the bohemian lifestyle to which she aspired. She later became the first woman to enter the philosophy program of Gakushuin University as the firstWoman to enter Philosophy Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is married to American musician John Lennon, with whom she had a daughter, Yoko Lennon, and a son, John Lennon Jr. The couple have two sons, John John Lennon III, and John Lennon IV, who were born in 1987 and 1994. They live in Los Angeles, California, and have two daughters, Yuki Ono and Yumi Ono, both of whom are artists.
They also have a son named Keisuke, who was born in 2003. Ona’s husband, Eisuke Ono is a wealthy banker and former classical pianist. He was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank, two weeks before Ono’s birth. The family moved to Japan in 1940, and Ono was enrolled in piano lessons from the age of 4. She remained in Tokyo throughout World War II and the great fire-bombing of March 9, 1945, during which she was sheltered with other family members in a special bunker in Tokyo’s Azabu district, away from the heavy bombing. In 1937, the family was transferred back to Japan, and ono enrolled at Tokyo’s elite G Kakushūin, one of the most exclusive schools in Japan. She graduated in 1951 and was accepted into the philosophy department at GakUSHuin University. In 1953, she rejoined her family in Scarsdale, New York, an affluent town 25 miles north of midtown Manhattan, and later enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1957, she moved to La Monte Young, where she later became an avant-garde artist, composer, and musician. In 1959, she married John Lennon and had two children, John and Yoko. In 1981, she had two more children, Lennon John Lennon II, and daughter Yoko Yoko, who is now the wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. In 1986, she divorced Lennon and moved back to Tokyo.
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