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120,000 Stories

Nobuko Miyamoto
120,000 Stories

Nobuko Miyamoto is an icon of Asian American music and activism. Since the early 1970s, she has been exploring ways to reclaim and respirit our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and forge solidarity. 120,000 Stories collects powerful new songs, reinterpretations of old ones, and recordings from across her career, including from the seminal 1973 album A Grain of Sand and the band Warriors of the Rainbow. These songs speak to past and present struggles—for self-determination, Black Lives, the environment. They chronicle difficult histories, they celebrate resilient traditions, and most of all, they endeavor to connect communities.

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Track Listing

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101
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Derek Nakamoto
04:16
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102
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Tylana Enomoto
04:19
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103
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Derek Nakamoto
06:27
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104
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Kenny Endo
06:08
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105
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Martha González, Gabriel González, Cava González Miranda
05:26
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106
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Kenny Endo
04:37
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107
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Gerald Albright
07:26
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108
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Mike Penny, George Abe
05:02
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109
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Tex Nakamura
08:31
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110
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Gerald Albright
05:59
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111
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Juan A. Pérez, Tex Nakamura
03:49
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112
Nobuko Miyamoto, Asiyah Ayubbi
03:03
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201
Chris Kando Iijima, Nobuko Miyamoto, Charlie Chin
03:02
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202
Chris Kando Iijima, Nobuko Miyamoto, Charlie Chin feat. Attallah Ayyubi, Mutulu Shakur
03:36
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203
Nobuko Miyamoto, Benny Yee feat. Russel Baba
05:04
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204
Nobuko Miyamoto, Russel Baba feat. Benny Yee
03:31
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205
Nobuko Miyamoto
05:10
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206
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Young Ae Park
06:20
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207
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Jose De Vega
07:23
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208
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Duncan Pain, Francis Awe
06:24
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209
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. June Kuramoto, Jesse Acuna
06:30
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210
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. George Abe
03:48
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211
Nobuko Miyamoto feat. Nancy Sekizawa, Carla Vega
03:37
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212
Nobuko Miyamoto, Martha González feat. Quetzal
04:27
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213
Nobuko Miyamoto, Nancy Sekizawa, César Castro, Rev. Masao Kodani, Martha González
06:26