{{Short description|Japanese singer}} {{expand Japanese|topic=bio|吉田美和|date=January 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> |name = Miwa Yoshida |image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people. Non-free and "fair use" images, e.g. promo photos, CD/DVD covers, posters, screen captures, etc., will be deleted - see WP:NONFREE --> |caption = |background = solo_singer | native_name = 吉田 美和 | native_name_lang = ja |birth_name = |alias = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|5|6}} |birth_place = Ikeda, Hokkaido, Japan |instruments = Vocals |genre = Pop, new wave, jazz, R&B |occupation = Singer-songwriter |years_active = 1988–present |label = Universal Music Japan (as Dreams Come True),<br />DCT records (solo),<br /> Toshiba EMI (Funk The Peanuts) |notable_albums = |notable_songs =

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{{nihongo|'''Miwa Yoshida'''|吉田 美和|Yoshida Miwa|born 6 May 1965 in Ikeda, Hokkaido}} is a Japanese musician, and the lead singer for the band Dreams Come True. She is also a founding member with bassist Masato Nakamura and keyboardist Takahiro Nishikawa.

Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project, Funk the Peanuts, and has released two solo albums, ''Beauty and Harmony'' and ''Beauty and Harmony 2''. Both albums took their name from the English translation of the name Miwa.

== Life and music career ==

In 2004, Yoshida married videographer Ken Sueda, who had shot several of Dreams Come True's Wonderland concert videos. Sueda died in 2007 of brain cancer, and it came out at the time that the marriage was never officially recorded.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2007/10/01/dcts_yoshida_miwa_loses_husband.shtml|title = DCT's Yoshida Miwa Loses Husband &#124; Japan Zone}}</ref>

In March 2012, she announced that she had married Juon Kamata, the lead singer of the Japanese rock band Fuzzy Control.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2SSvwDWjxAcbdrS-_DGpBKDqvKw?docId=CNG.c676d73390ed4daee014039173b12149.2b1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326040144/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2SSvwDWjxAcbdrS-_DGpBKDqvKw?docId=CNG.c676d73390ed4daee014039173b12149.2b1|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 March 2012|title=Japan pop icon marries man almost 20 years younger|accessdate=21 March 2012}}</ref>

== Discography ==

=== Singles === * {{nihongo|Namida no Mangekyō|涙の万華鏡|Kaleidoscope of Tears}} -m.yo mix- (6 May 2003) * Eternity (Swan Princess Soundtrack)

===Albums=== * ''Beauty and Harmony'' (18 December 1995) * ''Beauty and Harmony 2'' (6 May 2003)

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.dreamscometrue.com/|Dreams Come True official website}}

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