Yoko Ono is known to the general public, primarily as the wife of John Lennon. Although considerable success in her life, she achieved even before meeting with him. The musician himself said about her that she was "the most famous of unknown artists." Who is Yoko Ono?
Childhood and family
Yoko was born in 1933 in a noble Japanese family. Her father was an aristocrat and ran the American branch of Bank of Japan. Mother came from a kind of bankers and was engaged in creativity. The first years of her life, Yoko lived with her mother in Tokyo.
At the age of three, she attended a music school for gifted children. Yoko has always been distinguished by her strong and rather wayward character, admired strong and confident people. The family lived either in America or in Japan. Yoko entered the faculty of philosophy of Gakushuin University, and then studied music and literature at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Yoko became a conductor of concept art even before the term appeared. Back in 1964, she published a Grapefruit book with a set of ideas and instructions for creating creative work, in which she called for copying and destruction of originals. With her originality and originality, Yoko has fully proved that she is not just the wife of John Lennon, but also a completely self-sufficient artist.