Hvem giftet seg med Ryuichi Sakamoto?

Ryūichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, født 17. januar 1952, død 28. mars 2023) var en japansk musiker, komponist, plateprodusent og skuespiller. Han mottok Oscar, Grammy og Golden Globe.

Sakamoto ble født i Nakano i Tokyo i Japan, men bodde per 2020 for det meste i New York i USA. Sakamoto var medlem av technopop­bandet Yellow Magic Orchestra. Han var gift med musikeren Akiko Yano, men de ble skilt i august 2006; de ble foreldre til J-pop-sangeren Miu Sakamoto.

Sakamoto var per april 2020 musikkdirektør og såkalt representative director for Tohoku Youth Orchestra.

Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子, Yano Akiko; born Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 顕子, Suzuki Akiko); February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. She has been called "one of the major musical talents of the Japanese popular music world", and her vocals and singing style have been compared to English singer Kate Bush (who she predates by several years).

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as with Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as Yanokami and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.