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," which had a string of hits in

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in the 1980s. Nokko was born in Urawa, Saitama, as . Under her stage name Nokko, she also had multiple hits in Japan throughout her solo career in the 1990s, and released an English-language album in the US produced and mixed by Goh Hotoda and Francois Kevorkian.

History

In 1990, she married Takehiko Kogure, former group leader of Rebecca. They divorced in 1993. In 2002, she married Goh Hotoda, a sound engineer who has mixed hit singles for artists including

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. They now live in Atami, Japan, where on August 1, 2006, the couple welcomed the birth of their daughter, Kano.

Legacy

Nokko's song "Ningyo" (mermaid), which was her 4th solo single on her 4th solo album, "Colored", was the theme song for the 1994

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Discography

Original albums

# ''Hallelujah'' (1992) # ''I Will Catch U.'' (1993) # ''Call Me Nightlife'' (1993) # ''Colored'' (1994) # ''Rhyming Cafe'' (1996) # (1998) # ''Viaje'' (2000) # ''Kiss'' (2010

# ''THE NOKKO STORY'' (2013) # ''TRUE WOMAN'' (2018)

Compilation albums

# ''The Best of Nokko'' (1997) # ''Remix Nokko'' (2000) # ''Nokko's Selection, Nokko's Best'' (2006)

Singles

# ''Crazy Clouds'' (1992) # (1992) # ''I Will Catch U'' (1993) # ''Vivace'' (1993) # (1994) # (1994) # (1995) # (1995) # (1996) # ''Natural'' (1996) # (1997) # (1997) # (1998) # (1998) # (1999) # (1999) # (2000)

References

External links

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Fan page with complete discography
1963 births Living people Singers from Saitama (city) Ki/oon Music artists 20th-century Japanese women singers 20th-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers {{japan-singer-stub