{{Short description|Japanese singer}} {{Infobox musical artist | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Nokko | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Nobuko Yamada | alias = | birth_place =Urawa, Saitama, Japan | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|11|4}} | death_date = | origin = | genre = Pop | instrument = Vocals | years_active = 1980–present | label = CBS/SONY RECORDS/FITZBEAT (1983 - 1992)<br />Sony Music Entertainment Japan/Ki/oon Records (1992 - 1997)<br />BMG Japan (1997 - 2001)<br />Gut Records (2003)<br />Go and Nokko (2003-2009)<br />Universal Sigma Label (2010 - present) | associated_acts = Rebecca | website = [http://www.nokko.jp www.nokko.jp] }}
'''Nokko''' (born November 4, 1963) is a Japanese singer. She was the lead singer of the popular band Rebecca, which had a string of hits in Japan in the 1980s. Nokko was born in Urawa, Saitama, as {{nihongo|'''Nobuko Yamada'''|山田 信子|Yamada Nobuko}}. Under her stage name Nokko, she also had multiple hits in Japan throughout her solo career in the 1990s, and released an English-language album in the US produced and mixed by Goh Hotoda and Francois Kevorkian.
==History== In 1990, she married Takehiko Kogure, former group leader of Rebecca. They divorced in 1993. In 2002, she married Goh Hotoda, a sound engineer who has mixed hit singles for artists including Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Hikaru Utada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/25828-Goh-Hotoda |title=Goh Hotoda Discogs Profile |publisher=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=December 25, 2014}}</ref> They now live in Atami, Japan, where on August 1, 2006, the couple welcomed the birth of their daughter, Kano.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2007/11/13/people/goh-hotoda/#.VJHC3O85AqM |title=Goh Hotoda: Words to Live By |publisher=japantimes.com |date=November 13, 2007 |accessdate=December 25, 2014}}</ref>
==Legacy== Nokko's song "Ningyo" (mermaid), which was her fourth solo single on her fourth solo album ''Colored'', was the theme song for the 1994 drama ''Toki o Kakeru Shōjo'' starring Yuki Uchida.
== Discography ==
=== Original albums === # ''Hallelujah'' (1992) # ''I Will Catch U.'' (1993) # ''Call Me Nightlife'' (1993) # ''Colored'' (1994) # ''Rhyming Cafe'' (1996) # {{nihongo|''Veranda no Kishibe''|ベランダの岸辺|Veranda Shore}} (1998) # ''Viaje'' (2000) # ''Kiss'' (2010) [https://web.archive.org/web/20100116013330/http://www.universal-music.co.jp/nokko/disco/UMCK-1343.html] # ''THE NOKKO STORY'' (2013) # ''TRUE WOMAN'' (2018)
=== Compilation albums === # ''The Best of Nokko'' (1997) # ''Remix Nokko'' (2000) # ''Nokko's Selection, Nokko's Best'' (2006)
=== Singles === # ''Crazy Clouds'' (1992) # {{nihongo|''Kiseki no Wedding March''|奇跡のウエディングマーチ|Miracle Wedding March}} (1992) # ''I Will Catch U'' (1993) # ''Vivace'' (1993) # {{nihongo|''Ningyo''|人魚|Mermaid}} (1994) # {{nihongo|''Live ga Hanetara''|ライブがはねたら|When the Live Show finished}} (1994) # {{nihongo|''Antenna''|アンテナ}} (1995) # {{nihongo|''Parade''|パレード}} (1995) # {{nihongo|''Tenshi no Love Song''|天使のラブソング|Angel's Love Song}} (1996) # ''Natural'' (1996) # {{nihongo|''Koi wa Aserazu''|恋はあせらず|You Can't Hurry Love}} (1997) # {{nihongo|''Mizu no Naka de Chiisa na Taiyō''|水の中の小さな太陽|A Little Sun in the Water}} (1997) # {{nihongo|''Haruyuki Usagi''|春雪うさぎ|Spring Snow Rabbit}} (1998) # {{nihongo|''Wasurenagusa''|わすれな草|Forget-me-not}} (1998) # {{nihongo|''Friends''|フレンズ}} (1999) # {{nihongo|''Hiru no Tsuki''|昼の月|Daytime Moon}} (1999) # {{nihongo|''Kiss ga Kikoeru/I Love You''|KISSが聞こえる|I Can Hear the Kiss}} (2000)
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official|http://www.nokko.jp}} {{in lang|ja}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/19990203184429/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5750/index.html Fan page with complete discography] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Singers from Saitama (city) Category:Ki/oon Music artists Category:20th-century Japanese women singers Category:20th-century Japanese singers Category:21st-century Japanese women singers Category:21st-century Japanese singers
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