| Yoshika | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Unknown |
| Birth Date: | 20 December 1983 |
| Origin: | Japan |
| Genre: | Contemporary R&B, R&B |
| Occupation: | Singer |
| Years Active: | 2003–present |
| Label: | Red Alert Records (2002–2004) Atlantic Japan (2005–2006) Grand Trax(2008–) |
| Website: | http://www.yoshika.info/ |
is a Japanese singer, who sings mainly with R&B influences. Her major label debut album, Timeless, was released in January 2006.[1]
Yoshika spent much of her youth in Canada and the United States, studying at a high school in Modesto, California and influenced by American R&B.
Influenced by Common (rapper), India.Arie, and Jill Scott, she returned to Japan at the age of 18. She recorded a song titled "Jolie" for a TV commercial which was picked up for release, leading to her meeting Japanese Hip-Hop producers M-Flo. For her major label debut "Timeless" on Atlantic Records she intended to bring a strong sense of American R&B to a new Japanese scene led by Double (singer), Heartsdales, and Bennie K.
Shortly after the release, on 24 May 2006, Yoshika announced on her official website that she was pregnant and that she would halt her career to get married. She returned on 24 December 2008 with the release of a new album, World, on a new label, Grand Trax. Her latest original album, Redwood Tree was released on 13 January 2010, with a live album, "I Sing -Live Best-" following two months later.