Biography
Kimura Keiko (木村恵子) is a Japanese singer-songwriter born December 14, 1963 in Yokohama. Spending her childhood in Philadelphia, she moved back to Japan in her teens and enrolled in Keio University, where she was part of The McCoys—a music club that produced Mariya Takeuchi among others. Performing as a composer, vocalist and lyricist for the band, Kimura later passed a Columbia Records audition and decided to pursue a music career. She debuted on May 1st, 1988 with the single "Coltrane de aishite", with her debut album Style following 20 days later. After releasing three more solo albums, she transitioned to band work as a vocalist for the bossa nova act Quelqu'un along with Haruo Kubota. She also began writing and composing for other artists. Around this time, Kimura debuted as a writer, first contributing a series of essays to a local magazine before releasing her debut novel Grapefruit. After getting married in 1993, she sporadically appeared in a few bossa nova albums as a vocalist. An avid Barbie collector, her sophomore book Barbie in Japan was released in 1994 and became an important archive for doll collectors. According to the book, Kimura now works as a kimono consultant.
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