Michie Nakatani
{{Short description|Japanese musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Michie Nakatani
| alias = 中谷美智枝
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1961|10|8}}
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Musician
- singer
- songwriter}}
| past_member_of = Shonen Knife
}}
{{nihongo|Michie Nakatani|中谷美智枝|Nakatani Michie}} (born October 8, 1961) is a Japanese retired musician, best known as one of the founding members of the Japanese pop-punk band Shonen Knife.
Biography
Nakatani was born in Osaka, Japan, {{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/s/shonenknife/ |title=Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Shonen Knife |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=2012-02-21}} the only child of a homemaker mother and an accountant father. {{cite web|url=http://www.babysue.com/ShonenKnife.html |title=Shonen Knife Interview |publisher=babysue |date=1997-02-13 |accessdate=2012-02-21}}
She met future bandmate Naoko Yamano in college, and she spent some time working as a cartoonist's assistant. Nakatani and Yamano formed Shonen Knife in 1981, with Nakatani on bass, keyboards, and occasional lead vocals. She has named the Beatles, Beach Boys, The Jam, Redd Kross, and Cheap Trick as influences.{{cite web |url=http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1997/03.22/c970322.txt |title=ISSUE 103 - CONSUMABLE - March 22, 1997 |accessdate=2012-02-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19971114085700/http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1997/03.22/c970322.txt |archivedate=November 14, 1997 }}
In 1995, Nakatani collaborated with Gary Waleik of the band Big Dipper on a project called The Japanese Beatles. They recorded one single.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_SwEAAAAMBAJ&q=michie+nakatani+japanese+beetles&pg=PT22 |title=CMJ New Music Monthly - Google Books |date= December 1995|accessdate=2012-02-21}} She toured the world regularly with Shonen Knife during this period, except for missing some shows due to illness in 1997.{{cite web |url=http://www.shonenknife.com/aussie.html |title=Shonen Knife Tour - New Zealand/Australia, 1997 |publisher=Shonenknife.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001213153900/http://www.shonenknife.com/aussie.html |archive-date=2000-12-13 |url-status=dead }} She left Shonen Knife and retired from music in 1999.{{cite web |url=http://www.shonenknife.com/naoko99.html |title=Shonen Knife 2000 - A Conversation with Shonen Knife Naoko Yamano - July 16, 1999 |publisher=Shonenknife.com |date=1999-07-16 |accessdate=2012-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220152058/http://www.shonenknife.com/naoko99.html |archive-date=February 20, 2012 |url-status=dead }} The band continues to perform some songs written by Nakatani live. A lyric from her song "Catnip Dream" was included in the 2002 book Hokkaido Popsicle, written by Isaac Adamson.{{cite web |url=http://www.shonenknife.com/knews.html |title=knews.html |publisher=Shonenknife.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220152103/http://www.shonenknife.com/knews.html |archive-date=2012-02-20 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last=Adamson |first=Isaac |title=Hokkaido Popsicle (9780380812929): Isaac Adamson: Books |date=16 April 2002 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=0380812924}}
References
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External links
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Category:Women bass guitarists
Category:Japanese rock bass guitarists
Category:Japanese women rock singers
Category:Japanese women guitarists