| Nobuko Miyamoto is one of the early voices to emerge from the Asian
American cultural movement. In 1973, she and Chris Iijima created the first album of Asian
American songs--A Grain of Sand. Since that time, her life’s work has been dedicated
to the creation of performing arts that expresses the Asian American and multicultural
experience. In 1978, she founded great Leap, Inc. to support the creation of new works on
a larger scale. As Artistic Director, she has worked with a variety of artists to create
musicals, Talk Story I and II; short film Gaman; video, Gathering of Joy; and for the past
5 years she has been performing and curating Great Leap’s festival, A Slice of Rice.
Music has always been at the core of Nobuko’s work. She co-produced with Derek
Nakamoto her second album, Best of Both Worlds, and the album, Dini Clark Sings Duke
Ellington. Her Yuiyo and choreography were in the film, Karate Kid II. Recently, one of
the songs she wrote with Nakamoto was part of HBO’s children’s television
series, Happily Ever After. Nobuko continues to perform concerts of her music and tours
her one-woman show, A Grain of Sand, a fusion of music, video, monologue and movement
which shares her personal journey to find her voice as an Asian American woman.
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