Yuko came to the UK from Japan, almost 11 years ago to learn music and became interested in jazz almost straight away. She has completed a 3 year part-time jazz course at the City Lit College, and is currently undertaking private singing lessons with the BBC Jazz Award winning singer, Anita Wardell. Also, she has participated in various workshops with Sheila Jordan, Laura Zakian, Anton Browne, Renato D’Aiello and Louise Gibbs. She regularly performs as a member of the house band 'ikari' at the Golden Anchor (Nunhead, London), which also hosts a jam session. She has sung with a couple of jazz big band/orchestra such as the South London Jazz Orchestra and with fantastic musicians including Eriko Ishihara, Alan Weekes and Ben Hazleton. In Japan, she performed as a finalist at the jazz vocal contest in Kobe '08, and has had a number of gigs in jazz clubs such as Swing and Doxy on her travels back home. Aside from jazz, she has a big love of Afro Cuban music and is currently learning Latin percussion.
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