AKIKO MORIYAKO
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![Exodus - Blue Nile Mix - (feat. Nile Rodgers) [Cover]](https://tcj-image-production.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/u398007/r1222144/ite1222144.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJV4VIS2VN3X4CBGA%2F20251215%2Fap-northeast-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20251215T231521Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=5654dbd778a13ddb97b17776d88fa1bfa242c9b92900444f9c89129b81f2c749)
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![One Love (feat. Maxi Priest & Speech) [Cover]](https://tcj-image-production.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/u398007/r1179746/ite1179746.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJV4VIS2VN3X4CBGA%2F20251215%2Fap-northeast-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20251215T231521Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=504849a17fa1205a0cd99bab2dd31ea2e432406c3d5e69fc02f678f4816e37ad)
![Full Hundred - by the sea - (feat. Takahiro Miyazaki) [Cover]](https://tcj-image-production.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/u398007/r1215037/ite1215037.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJV4VIS2VN3X4CBGA%2F20251215%2Fap-northeast-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20251215T231521Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=954b2c29dbe2af61ea66d1e61c6286f11849e13f727693fe0f8312f5c0a15918)
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Artist Profile
AKIKO MORIYAKO
Akiko Moriyako is a pianist, vocalist, percussionist, singer-songwriter and music producer. Her childhood began playing the electronic organ, creating fairy tales, and writing and composing songs.
Akiko has toured with world acclaimed artists including Maxi Priest, Big Mountain, Beenie Man, Shaggy. UB40 and more..The Vibes, her first solo album, was produced by Maxi Priest and Livingstone Brown. "lead song, "sublime," reached #9 on the iTunes World song Chart.
She study at Yamaha Electronic organ School since she was 6 years old,
Since childhood, Akiko began playing the electronic organ, creating fairy tales, and writing and composing songs. After graduating from university, she moved to England and began traveling the world, interacting with a variety of world-class musicians.
In December 2010, her debut album "The vibes" was released from Domo Records USA, and simultaneously began to be distributed worldwide on iTunes CD etc..
July 2014 Single Full Hundred - by the sea - released May 2024 First single ' One Love '( Bob Marley) from the second album " THE VIBES II" released worldwide. Bob Marley) was released simultaneously worldwide for digital distribution. The unique and sophisticated musicality of JAZZY and ambient music
Akiko Moriyako is a musician of rare elegance whose sound poems whilst wholly contemporary convey a depth and tranquillity that could only be inspired by ancient Japanese tradition. For this extraordinary debut album she is chosen to reinterpret the work of international reggae star Maxi Priest or rather those songs that in Akiko own words remain hidden. She uses the analogy of a Samurai sword left unsheathed because whilst some of them were hits the majority can only be found on Maxi albums and have seldom been performed on stage. That is because despite their obvious merits they were among the more gentle and restrained songs of his repertoire. Akiko approach is an unusual, yet richly rewarding one. Unlike say Charlie Hunter or Ernest Rang who translated reggae classics into jazz she is chosen to reach into the very heart of these songs and reinterpret them with the same delicacy of awareness as a master of Ikebana or Kado the Japanese way of flowers would wherein nature and humanity and in her case, music are joined together in perfect harmony. The results are often trance like and impressionistic as heard in the best of New Age music.
Genre: ReggaeActive Area: JAPAN USA ENGLAND JAMAICA
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