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Nachiko Tateoka was born on September 17, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. 

　　She started playing the piano at the age of 3. When she was in the first grade of elementary school, her teacher made her sing a song as punishment for her forgetting something, which was the first time she had improvised her original song. After that, she began to compose songs and instrumental piano music. When she was a bookish teenager, she listened to hard rock, progressive rock, and so on over radio and became interested in other types of music genres besides classical music. She practiced the piano in order to enroll college of music, her parents, however, objected and did not allow her to do so.

　　After graduating from high school, when she belonged to a model agency, her songs, which she did not intend to release, became popular by word of mouth. Then the first album, “Kusuriya No Musume”, which means “The Daughter of a Pharmacist” ― she was actually so ― , was released on April, 1980 by EPIC SONY. That was the first time EPIC SONY had released an album by a female singer. Her music was unique and she has her very own worldview. She expressed the worlds of novels by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, manga by Tezuka Osamu, and so on through music. She released three album CDs and two single CDs, and suspended her activities in 1982. Then she worked as psychological counselor and wrote some songs of TV commercials.

　　The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku had her re-start her music career for the first time in 31 years and released an album, “Warming up” on October, 2013. She has been composing songs at her own pace. She lives in Okinawa now.