| Background: | person | ||
| Miki Yamanaka | |||
| Native Name: | 山中みき | ||
| Native Name Lang: | Japanese | ||
| Birth Date: | 1990 | ||
| Birth Place: | Kyoto | ||
| Origin: | Kobe, Japan | ||
| Genre: | Jazz | ||
| Instrument: | Piano, organ | ||
| Spouse: | Jimmy Macbride[1] | ||
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Miki Yamanaka (born 1990) is a Japanese jazz musician currently living in New York City.[2]
Miki Yamanaka lived in Kyoto until she was 10, when she moved to Kobe. She became interested in jazz while playing in her junior high school big band.[3] She moved to New York in 2012 and took a compositional residency at the Kennedy Center in 2015. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she recorded the album Stairway to the Stars in her living room with Mark Turner and Orlando le Fleming.[4] For her first gig after the pandemic, Yamanaka wore a kimono outfit to honor her mother; since then she has dressed in one every time she plays.[5]