Naoko Yamano

is a Japanese musician, best known as a founding member, singer/guitarist, and primary songwriter for the pop-punk band Shonen Knife. She is the only member of the band to have remained throughout its entire history. After briefly working as a receptionist in a doctor's office, she formed the band in late 1981 with her college friend Michie Nakatani and her younger sister Atsuko Yamano. Naoko Yamano is known for her songs about food and animals, with music that is primary influenced by the Ramones and the Beatles.

References

External links

Shonen Knife Biography

From Naoko Blog

1960 births

Living people

Japanese guitarists

Japanese women guitarists

Japanese women rock singers

Japanese alternative rock musicians

Shonen Knife members

Japanese rock guitarists

Japanese punk rock musicians

Singers from Osaka Prefecture

20th-century Japanese women singers

20th-century Japanese singers

21st-century Japanese women singers

21st-century Japanese singers

Women punk rock singers

Pigface members