Yoko Wakabayashi

Yoko Wakabayashi

She has been started her musical performance since 2010, mainly at jazz clubs in Tokyo. She was born in Tokyo, has a jazz bassist as a father and grew up surrounded by various musicians. She belonged to the choir at a mission school from elementary school to high school. From high school to university, she played in a band which played Rock and Fusion. Inspired by the fact that her father, who had retired from performing early, resumed his musical activities in his later years, she joined his father's amateur jazz orchestra. Since then, she has been studying voice training with opera singer Chizuru Kato (died in 2021), and jazz vocals with the winner of Japan Jazz Award Maria Eva. Through her performances, she strives to express the unique worldview she gained from her exposure to various types of music since childhood.