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master,

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master, composer, pianist, radio presenter, and cultural ambassador best known as the leader of

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Biography

Yuko Suzuhana began studying classical piano at the age of three, as her mother is a piano teacher, and later became a kitsuke (a kimono dresser). Her father, an architect, passed away when she was 19 years old. She also has a younger brother. She began studying

and

at the age of five. After graduating from Ibaraki Prefectural Mito Daini Senior High School, Suzuhana studied at the

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. After working as pianist and lecturer in a piano class, she started singing in the classical pop unit Asty, formed with her pianist and violinist classmates at the university. In 2011, Suzuhana won the grand prize in the Youth Division of the National Ginpo Concours sponsored by

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. In February 2012, Suzuhana co-founded the folk-classical band

Hanafugetsu is a Japanese band formed in 2012, consisting of lead vocalist and pianist Yuko Suzuhana, shakuhachi player Daisuke Kaminaga, and koto player Kiyoshi Ibukuro. A part for their Shigin reinterpretations, all of their music is composed by Suzuhana ...

with

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player Daisuke Kaminaga and koto player Kiyoshi Ibukuro. A year later, she conceived a band that fused the traditional and modern sides of Japanese culture, leading to the formation of

. In 2016, Suzuhana released her first solo album ''

Cradle of Eternity ''Cradle of Eternity'' is the debut solo album by Wagakki Band lead vocalist Yuko Suzuhana, released on November 23, 2016, by Avex Trax in three editions: CD only, two-disc CD, and CD with DVD or Blu-ray. In contrast to Wagakki Band's style of mixi ...

''. In March 2017, she was appointed Ambassador in the Ibaraki and Mito prefectures. In June 2019, Suzuhana transferred her office and label from

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. On June 28, 2021, Suzuhana announced the restart of her solo career with the music video "Campanula", which premiered on her

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channel on June 30.

Personal life

On August 21, 2022, Suzuhana revealed that she married

and

koto player Kiyoshi Ibukuro on March 4, 2020, and she was pregnant with their first child. She gave birth to a baby girl on November 24, being hospitalized since September 19, after a show, as Wagakki Band finished their Vocalo Zanmai 2 tour in her absence.

Discography

Albums

Solo albums

Asty

Yukari

Singles

Videos

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuhana, Yuko Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Wagakki Band 21st-century Japanese singer-songwriters 21st-century Japanese women singers Japanese women singer-songwriters Japanese heavy metal singers Japanese women heavy metal singers 21st-century Japanese classical pianists Japanese women classical pianists Japanese folk musicians 21st-century Japanese poets Japanese women poets Japanese radio presenters Japanese women radio presenters Avex Trax artists Universal Music Group artists Singers from Ibaraki Prefecture People from Mito, Ibaraki Tokyo College of Music alumni