Miwa Yoshida Explained

Miwa Yoshida
Background:solo_singer
Native Name:吉田 美和
Native Name Lang:ja
Birth Date:1965 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Ikeda, Hokkaido, Japan
Instruments:Vocals
Genre:Pop, new wave, jazz, R&B
Occupation:Singer-songwriter
Years Active:1988–present
Label:Universal Music Japan (as Dreams Come True),
DCT records (solo),
Toshiba EMI (Funk The Peanuts)

is a Japanese musician, and the lead singer for the band Dreams Come True. She is also a founding member with bassist Masato Nakamura and keyboardist Takahiro Nishikawa.

Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project, Funk the Peanuts, and has released two solo albums, Beauty and Harmony and Beauty and Harmony 2. Both albums took their name from the English translation of the name Miwa.

Life and music career

In 2004, Yoshida married videographer Ken Sueda, who had shot several of Dreams Come True's Wonderland concert videos. Sueda died in 2007 of brain cancer, and it came out at the time that the marriage was never officially recorded.[1]

In March 2012, she announced that she had married Juon Kamata, the lead singer of the Japanese rock band Fuzzy Control.[2]

Discography

Singles

Albums

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DCT's Yoshida Miwa Loses Husband | Japan Zone.
  2. Web site: Japan pop icon marries man almost 20 years younger. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326040144/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2SSvwDWjxAcbdrS-_DGpBKDqvKw?docId=CNG.c676d73390ed4daee014039173b12149.2b1. dead. 26 March 2012. 21 March 2012.