Kiyomi Angela Aki (å®‰è— è –ä¸–ç¾Ž アンジェラ, Aki Kiyomi
Anjera, born September 15, 1977) known professionally as Angela Aki
(アンジェラ・アã‚, Anjera Aki), is a pop singer, songwriter
and pianist born in Itano, Tokushima, Japan to an Italian American
mother and a Japanese father.Aki was born in the small town of Itano,
population 14,600, in the mostly rural island of Shikoku.Aki began to
take piano lessons when she was three years old and lived in Tokushima
through sixth grade and spent her junior high school days in Okayama.
She has admitted that growing up in rural Japan proved very difficult,
as she was bullied and she turned to the piano as an escape from the
isolation she felt. She grew up listening to a mix of enka, The
Carpenters and The Bee Gees.Aki moved to Hawaii when she was fifteen
years old and attended the Hawaii Preparatory Academy, but transferred
to and graduated from Iolani School. She speaks English and Japanese.
She was immersed in music there for four years. She graduated from
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and majored in
political science.
Anjera, born September 15, 1977) known professionally as Angela Aki
(アンジェラ・アã‚, Anjera Aki), is a pop singer, songwriter
and pianist born in Itano, Tokushima, Japan to an Italian American
mother and a Japanese father.Aki was born in the small town of Itano,
population 14,600, in the mostly rural island of Shikoku.Aki began to
take piano lessons when she was three years old and lived in Tokushima
through sixth grade and spent her junior high school days in Okayama.
She has admitted that growing up in rural Japan proved very difficult,
as she was bullied and she turned to the piano as an escape from the
isolation she felt. She grew up listening to a mix of enka, The
Carpenters and The Bee Gees.Aki moved to Hawaii when she was fifteen
years old and attended the Hawaii Preparatory Academy, but transferred
to and graduated from Iolani School. She speaks English and Japanese.
She was immersed in music there for four years. She graduated from
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and majored in
political science.
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