Aki Tsuyuko

Aki Tsuyuko (アキツユコ) began taking electronic organ lessons when she was a child – one of the images in Hokane is a picture of a young Aki playing organ. “I think that everything I have experienced growing up in Japan is somehow an element of my music,” she says. In addition to her organ studied she practiced the classical Japanese dance "Nihon-buyo" lessons for 15 years. “ I could not find pleasure very much in it, although I had been doing it for such a long time and grown to be skilled in a craft.