Lisa Ono

Lisa Ono is a Latin artist from Japan, born on July 29, 1962.

Lisa Ono (小野リサ, Ono Risa) is a popular Japanese bossa nova singer. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10, where her father owned Saci Perere, a Brazilian restaurant. From that time on she spent half of every year in Japan, and half in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She released her first album, Catupiry, in 1989. She soon became famous in Japan after appearing in several TV commercials. In 2003 she released an album entitled Dans Mon Ile (French for In my island) .