Fukuko

Fukuko spent the first eight years of her life living with an Amish family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her parents believed it best she didn’t know their identity until her ninth birthday, a rare pre-Meiji Restoration tradition still observed by one mountainside village in rural Hakone.

The day Fukuko left her Amish host family, they presented her with a ceremonial trombone, engraved with the initials of the prophets. From that day forward, after saying her daily prayers at sunrise, Fukuko practiced her trombone. At the age of 18, she eschewed admission to Japan’s most prestigious conservatory to begin writing cryptography software for fintech companies and banks. She used the pen name Satoshi Nakamoto, but she soon lost interest in the once-lucrative field and began to pursue her passion of music full-time.

Fukuko defines her greatest musical inspirations as both Naughty By Nature and Kidz Bop. Besides for these artists, she also cites Janet Yellen, Coco Chanel, and Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster among her greatest creative role models.

Dropping in both delicate harmonies and off-beat syncopated horn flares are her signature styles. Booty Fans will hear Fukuko’s solo in the hit autobiographical single she composed, “Unicycle Your Way Into My Heart.”