Yoko Ono: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Yoko Ono Lennon
Born	February 18, 1933 (age 93) • Tokyo • Japan
Awards And Honors	Grammy Award (1981)
Notable Works	“Approximately Infinite Universe” • “Between My Head and the Sky” • “Cut Piece” • “Double Fantasy” • “Fly” • “Grapefruit” • “Painting to Be Stepped On” • “Rising” • “Season of Glass” • “Some Time in New York City” • “Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins” • “Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band”
Movement / Style	Fluxus
Notable Family Members	spouse John Lennon

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Yoko Ono wearing a light-colored top hat, dark sunglasses, and a black suit jacket, standing in front of a colorful abstract background.

Several members of the Bandaged Orchestra sit wrapped in bandages, some wearing sunglasses, during the Fluxus Festival arranged by Yoko Ono at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965.

“I just believe in me. Yoko and me,” John Lennon sang in “God.”

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