Miu Sakamoto


Miu Sakamoto is a Japanese pop singer, writer, and actress. She is the daughter of musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Akiko Yano.

Biography

Miu Sakamoto was born to musician parents, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Akiko Yano, in 1980. She grew up listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra and Kraftwerk. She has three half-siblings, her brother Fuuta, along with an older sister and a younger brother from her father's previous marriages. Her grandfather Kazuki Sakamoto is an editor. In 1990, when Sakamoto was 9 years old, her family emigrated to New York, where she lived until she graduated from high school. Because of her time in the U.S., she is bilingual in Japanese and English. Her name, "Miu", comes from the English word "mutant", given to her by her father.
While Sakamoto currently lives in Tokyo, she travels frequently between Japan and New York City, to visit her mother in Manhattan.
Sakamoto provided a cover of "Miu" for the January 29, 2020 Buck-Tick tribute album ''Parade III ~Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick.''

Discography

Albums

Miu Sakamoto is the voice provider for Yamaha's Vocaloid Mew. Mew was a starter Vocaloid released alongside the Vocaloid 3 software, with VY1V3.
Mew's first single, "Line", debuted in The Vocaloid, an album produced by Yamaha.