Yoko Kikuchi

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Yoko Kikuchi
Yoko Kikuchi, 2006 June 26
Background information
Origin	New York City, New York, U.S.
Genre(s)	Anti-folk
Label(s)	Recommended If You Like Records
Website	Personal Site

Yoko Kikuchi (born September 1, 1981) is a fourth-generation American artist and singer/songwriter of Japanese and Filipino descent, associated with the Antifolk community of New York's East Village. Born in New York City to parents involved in the visual arts, she was raised in SoHo and Hell's Kitchen, attending public schools including Wagner JHS 167 and Stuyvesant High School. It was at those schools where she met Ann Zakaluk, with whom she currently co-fronts the Antifolk indie pop band Dream Bitches. Although she is self-taught on the guitar, her ear for harmonies is due to her ten-year involvement in the Young People's Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco J. Núñez, with which she toured and competed both nationally and internationally.

Kikuchi released one solo album, Songs I Wrote For You (2003, self-released), a collection of songs written and recorded during her time as a student at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts.

In 2006, Recommended If You Like Records released a split 7", This Song/That Song with Casey Holford. She toured Europe in support of that release with Holford and Daoud Tyler-Ameen as the band Daouets.

In addition to her involvement in these musical projects (and some unnamed), Yoko has been known to be an emerging web-designer, health food slinger, visual artist and vegan chef.