Kaori Yamada hails from Kobe, Japan and performed extensivley in the Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe area. She moved to the US in 2005 and has appeared here in concerts in symphonic and Jazz settings, hotels, clubs and Jazz festivals, mostly in Georgia and Florida. She has performed with renowned Savannah, Georgia bassist and Blue Note recording artist Ben Tucker.
A lot of her performances have been with ”Keith & Kaori", the piano/vocal duo that she has with pianist/vocalist Keith Williams. Kaori's pleasing stage presence and emotive delivery of a song have always been strong points of her vocal style. She is equally at home with a Jazz standard, a bossa nova or a well known Pop song.
