Angela Aki

Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ, Anjera Aki), born Kiyomi Angela Aki (安藝 聖世美 アンジェラ Aki Kiyomi Anjera) on September 15, 1977, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Itano, Tokushima, Japan. Aki was born in the small town of Itano, population 14,600, in the mostly rural island of Shikoku, to a Japanese father and Italian-American mother. She is the daughter of Kiyoshi Aki, the owner and co-founder of Aeon Corporation, a large eikaiwa (English conversation) chain of schools in Japan. 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 mixed-race in rural Japan proved very difficult and she...