Miwa Yoshida

Miwa Yoshida
Native name	吉田 美和
Born	6 May 1965
Origin	Ikeda, Hokkaido, Japan
Genres	Pop, new wave, jazz, R&B
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Universal Music Japan (as Dreams Come True), DCT records (solo), Toshiba EMI (Funk The Peanuts)
Associated acts	Masato Nakamura, Dreams Come True, Rinko Urashima (as Funk The Peanuts), Misia
Website	www.dctgarden.com/MIWA/index.html

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.

Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project called "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.^[1]

In March 2012, she announced that she had married Juon Kamata, the lead singer of the Japanese rock band Fuzzy Control.^[2]

Discography

Singles

• Namida no Mangekyō (涙の万華鏡 Kaleidoscope of Tears) -m.yo mix- (6 May 2003)

Albums

• Beauty and Harmony (18 December 1995)
• Beauty and Harmony 2 (6 May 2003)

References

1. http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2007/10/01/dcts_yoshida_miwa_loses_husband.shtml
2. "Japan pop icon marries man almost 20 years younger". Retrieved 21 March 2012.

External links

• Dreams Come True official website