Angela Aki
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| Native name | アンジェラ・アキ |
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Kiyomi Angela Aki (安藝 聖世美 アンジェラ?) September 15, 1977 Itano, Tokushima, Shikoku, Japan |
| Residence | Vienna, Virginia, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
| Website | www |
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Kiyomi Angela Aki (安藝 聖世美 アンジェラ Aki Kiyomi Anjera?, born September 15, 1977) known professionally as Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ Anjera Aki?), is a pop singer, songwriter, and pianist born in Itano, Tokushima, Japan to a Japanese father and an Italian-American mother.
Aki was born in the small town of Itano, population 14,600, in the mostly rural island of Shikoku.
Aki began to take piano lessons when she was three years old and lived in Tokushima through sixth grade, and spent her junior high school days in Okayama. She has admitted that growing up in rural Japan proved very difficult, as she was bullied and she turned to the piano as an escape from the isolation she felt. She grew up listening to a mix of enka, The Carpenters and The Bee Gees.
Aki moved to Hawaii when she was fifteen years old and attended the Hawaii Preparatory Academy, but transferred to and graduated from Iolani School. She speaks English and Japanese. She was immersed in music there for four years. She graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and majored in political science.
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