Lisa Ono, a pioneer of Japan’s bossa nova scene, will headline a three-city Billboard Live tour in 2024. She released her debut album Catopiri in 1989, and her 1999 album Dream sold over 200,000 copies. She has four Jazz-category wins at the Japan Gold Disc Award. Over the years, she has cultivated close ties with bossa nova’s gods—Antonio Carlos Jobim—and jazz-samba maestro Joao Donato, among others, and in 2013 she was awarded Brazil’s National Order of Rio Branco for her contributions to promoting bossa nova in Japan. Her influence is immeasurable. Please enjoy to the fullest the soothing rhythms born from her natural guitar sound and her refreshing singing voice.