An artist who mixed experimental performance with pop songwriting, from early sound collages to later solo work.
For a sense of her range, try 'Kiss Kiss Kiss' from 1969 and then 'Children Power' from her top songs. They're about twenty years apart but share her particular voice.
Her first album 'Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins' with John Lennon in 1969 announced a different kind of collaboration. Songs like 'Kiss Kiss Kiss' that same year showed she could be playful within her conceptual framework. The 1973 album 'Approximately Infinite Universe' sits among her top tracks, suggesting listeners still return to that period.
She grew up in Tokyo around avant-garde art before joining New York's Fluxus movement in the early 1960s. Her recorded work began with John Lennon in 1969 and continued through albums like 'Fly' and 'Starpeace' into the 2000s.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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