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Place of Birth: Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
About Etsuko Nakanishi
- Shonen Knife is an alternative rock band formed in Osaka, in 1981.
- Heavily influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, The Beach Boys, and early punk rock bands, such as the Ramones, the trio crafts stripped-down songs with simple, yet unconventional lyrics sung both in Japanese and English.Despite their pop-oriented nature, the trio maintains a distinctly underground garage rock sound rooted in edgy instrumentation and D.I.Y.
- aesthetics, which over the course of their long career has earned them a solid, worldwide cult following and made avid fans out of seminal 1990s alternative rock bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross.
- The band has been credited with making "the international pop underground more international" by "opening it up to bands from Japan".
- They have also performed as a Ramones tribute band under the name The Osaka Ramones.
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