Miho Wada

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Miho Wada (* 1979 in Tokyo ) is a New Zealand- born jazz and fusion flutist, born in Japan . She also plays the piano, saxophone, sings and composes.

Life

Miho Wada grew up in Miyazaki and moved to New Zealand, where she studied flute at the University of Canterbury and Trinity College of Music in London . During her studies in London she performed in a jazz duo with guitarist Noel Billingsley (Florestar). She then spent a short time as a classical flautist in the National Orchestra of Malta, but then turned to other fields of music, in particular jazz, pop, salsa and other Latin music, ska and world music. She played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , where she met Nigel Kennedy , with whom she played in jazz trio concerts in the UK. In 2008 she went to Cuba to study Son Cubano music in Havana and other places (with members of the Buena Vista Social Club , Sierra Maestra , Kotumba and Sones de Oriente). In 2009 she played with Iggy Pop (her music video from The Passenger won prizes in Cannes) and with Jarvis Cocker and toured with Ska Cubano on the WOMAD world tour (and did an apprenticeship with saxophonist Seun Kuti and then played the saxophone) . Then she founded a quartet (with bass, drums, guitar) in Auckland with whom she plays Japanese punk jazz (as she calls it herself): J-Pop with English-Japanese punk lyrics and influences from jazz and Cuban music. She stylizes herself as a Jazz Flute Ninja .

In 2010/11 she toured with the ska punk rock band The Shit Fight (with whom she also recorded the album Morning After ), concentrated on composition and founded her own Miho's Jazz Orchestra in late 2011 . Exit 621 appeared in 2013 .

In 2011 she released her jazz EP Para Ti (for you) and in 2012 her album Wanderland .

She regularly performs at jazz festivals in her native New Zealand and the rest of the Pacific.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A promotional video for the Internet company Orcon, where a jam session was organized between Iggy Pop in Miami and New Zealand musicians to demonstrate the speed of global Internet networking
personal data
SURNAME Wada, Miho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand jazz flutist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo