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Ono, Yōko, 1933-
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Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo. The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War. She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, the Dakota, on 8 December 1980. Together they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician.
Ono began a career in popular music in 1969, forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s. She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. To date, she has had twelve number one singles on the US Dance charts, and in 2016 was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon, including Elvis Costello,[3][failed verification] the B-52's, Sonic Youth and Meredith Monk.
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referencedIn | [Postcard collection]. | Northwestern University | |
referencedIn | Allen Ginsberg papers | Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
referencedIn | Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994 | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
creatorOf | Blakeston, Oswell, 1907-1985. Papers, 1927-1985. | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | |
creatorOf | Brecht, George. Flux year box 2 [art original]. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
referencedIn | David Tudor papers, 1884-1998 (bulk 1940-1996) | Getty Research Institute | |
referencedIn | East West Research Files, 1967-1989 | University of California, Berkeley. The Ethnic Studies Library. | |
creatorOf | Feinberg, Abraham L. Papers, 1914-1990. | The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives | |
referencedIn | Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. R. Buckminster Fuller collection, 1930-1979, bulk 1965-1969. | Arizona State University Libraries | |
referencedIn | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
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referencedIn | Oral history interview with Alison Knowles | Archives of American Art |
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associatedWith | Blakeston, Oswell, 1907-1985 |
associatedWith | Blakeston, Oswell, 1907-1985. |
associatedWith | Brown, Jean, 1911- |
associatedWith | Communist Party of the United States of America. |
associatedWith | De Sana, Jimmy |
associatedWith | East West newspaper |
associatedWith | Feinberg, Abraham L. |
associatedWith | Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983. |
associatedWith | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 |
associatedWith | Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. |
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Ono, Ĭoko
Оно, Йоко
אונו, יוקו, 1933-
おおのようこ
おのようこ
オノ, ヨーコ
オノ, ヨーコ 1933-...
オノヨ-コ
オノヨーコ
オノ・ヨーコ
大野洋子
大野陽子
小野, 洋子
小野, 洋子 1933-...
小野陽子
Lennon, Yoko Ono, 1933-
Y. O., 1933-
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