Akiko Yano (????) is an influential Japanese pop and jazz musician. She was born as Akiko Suzuki (Suzuki Akiko) on February 13, 1955. She married and soon after divorced Makoto Yano, a producer of her first recording. She later married Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of the members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, whom she divorced in August 2006. She has recorded with, among many others, Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Jeff Bova, Yukihiro Takahashi, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto. Discography · Japanese Girl (1976) · Nagatsuki Kannazuki (1976) · Iroha ni Konpeitou (1977) · Tokimeki (1978) · Tokyo wa Yoru no Shichi Ji (1979) · Asoko no Akkochan (1979) · Goh