Yoko Ono

Also known as Yōko Ono, Ono Yōko, Yoko Ono Lennon, Ono Yoko, Ono, Ĭoko Ono

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

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Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American peace activist, singer, composer, and performance artist. Born in Tokyo in 1933, she holds citizenship in Japan and the United States. She was educated at Gakushuin University and speaks English and Japanese. Her artistic career began in 1961, with work locations including New York City, Amsterdam, Montreal, and Japan. She is associated with the Fluxus movement and genres such as rock music, experimental music, and Shibuya-kei.

Ono has received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year and a Grammy Award for Best Music Film, and has been nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. She performs using the piano and voice, releasing records on labels including Apple Records, Astralwerks, Polydor, and Geffen Records. She was influenced by Allan Kaprow. Her spouses include Toshi Ichiyanagi, Anthony Cox, and John Lennon. She has resided in Tokyo, New York City, and London.

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Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music which prefigured New Wave music (whether she was a direct influence is still debated). She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the…

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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC — Self2026
John Lennon: The Last Interview2026
One to One: John & Yoko — Self (archive footage)2025
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade — Self (archive footage)2025
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn — Self (archive footage)2025
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution — Self2025
David Frost Vs — self (archive footage)2025
Daytime Revolution — Self (archive footage)2024
Beatles '64 — Self (archive footage)2024
Elton John: Never Too Late — Self (archive footage)2024

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Country: New York
Active from: 1933

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Instance of: human
Given name: Yōko
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Tokyo
Spouse: John Lennon
Child: Sean Lennon
Occupation: filmmaker
Educated at: Gakushuin University
Languages spoken: Japanese
Native language: Japanese
Genre: vanguard
Movement: Fluxus
Instrument: voice
Record label: Rykodisc
Official website: www.imaginepeace.com
Image: Yokoono2.jpg
Work location: London
Residence: London
Voice type: mezzo-soprano
Significant event: The Beatles' rooftop concert

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Commons category: Yoko Ono
topic's main category: Category:Yoko Ono
Commons gallery: Yoko Ono
birth name: 小野洋子
influenced by: Allan Kaprow
nominated for: Grammy Award for Best Music Film
name in native language: オノ・ヨーコ
Commons Creator page: Yoko Ono
start of work period: 1961-00-00
date of birth: 1933-02-18
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Art+Feminism
owner of: Mendips, Menlove Avenue
topic has template: Template:Yoko Ono
related category: Category:Albums produced by Yoko Ono
ethnic group: Japanese people
time period: 21st century
floruit: 1980-01-01
social media followers: 77600
catalog code: 331
name in kana: おのようこ
partner in business or sport: John Lennon
pseudonym: O., Y.
copyright representative: Broadcast Music, Inc.

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Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana as オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese artist, musician, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

Ono was born and grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became widely known outside the contemporary art world in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom she would subsequently record as a duo in the Plastic Ono Band. The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War with what they called a bed-in. She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, The Dakota, on December 8, 1980. Together, they had one son, Sean, who later also became a musician.

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