MONDAY MICHIRU
Genres: RnB, Jazz Related Electronica, Hip-Hop, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Vocal Jazz, Latin Jazz, Acid Jazz, Nu Jazz • Japan

Monday Michiru stands as one of Japan's finest soul and R&B singers of the 1990s and whose cosmopolitan sensibility and mixed nationality have made her stand out among her contemporaries. Regarded as one of the pioneers of Japanese club music, she was born in 1963 in Tokyo to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and alto sax jazzman Charlie Mariano but raised in the United States. Michiru originally kept her father's last name, then briefly adopted Michiru Akiyoshi as a screen name in the mid-'80s, but settled on her current name at the time of her debut album (Michiru is her middle name). Originally, she was an actress and first came to the public's attention when she was awarded a prize at 1987's Yokohama film festival for her performance in Hikaru Onna. But, come 1991, her attention had gone to composing music and performing, appearing in small Tokyo jazz clubs and releasing her read more...