Angela Aki , born Kiyomi Angela Aki on September 15, 1977, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Itano, Tokushima, Japan. Aki was born in the small town of Itano, population 14,600, in the mostly rural island of Shikoku, to a Japanese father and Italian-American mother. She is the daughter of Kiyoshi Aki, the owner and co-founder of Aeon Corporation, a large eikaiwa chain of schools in Japan. 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 mixed-race in rural Japan proved very difficult 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 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.
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| Birthdate: | September 15, 1977 |
| Birthplace: | Tokushima Prefecture |
| Age: | 34 |
| Education: | George Washington University, Iolani School |
| Also known as: | アンジェラ・アキ, Aki, Angela |