Her most recent album, Trip, released in 2017, spent fifty-seven weeks on Billboard’s top R&B album charts. While her third solo album, Souled Out, spent ten weeks at the number three spot for top album sales in 2014. Her second solo album, Sail Out, peaked at number eight on Billboard charts in 2013 remaining on the charts for forty-six weeks and the album’s radio hit, The Worst, remained on Billboard’s hot 100 for twenty weeks in 2014. However, Aiko is a successful solo artist as well. She has sung hooks for Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and 2 Chainz to name a few. She embodies a soft-spoken yet unapologetic street credibility that has made her a favorite “hook singer” for many rappers. Aiko’s sister, Mila J, is a singer, songwriter, and dancer herself.Īiko’s music is often described as soulful and atmospheric.
Aiko is one of five siblings who grew up in a multiracial and tight-knit family from Ladera Heights, a Black middle-class enclave in south Los Angeles. Jhené Aiko Chilombo was born in 1988 in Los Angeles to Christina Yamamoto, a woman who is African American and Japanese, and Karamo Chilombo, a man of mixed-Black and Native American ancestry. The performance was a touching display of affection between three generations of women, and as such, offers an opportunity to reflect on the role Aiko’s mother’s racial heritage has played in Aiko’s musical career. I'm becoming my mother, my beautiful mother, she is love in the flesh, what a sight.”Īfterwards, Aiko and her young daughter, Namiko Love, serenaded the audience with an original song Aiko wrote titled, Sing to Me. I am becoming my mother, my beautiful mother, who taught me with age, comes might. I’m better, I’m wiser, I’m leveling up overall. “I found another grey hair today but I was not bothered at all. At the 2018 VH1 Mother’s Day music tribute concert titled, Dear Mama: A Love Letter to Moms, Grammy nominated singer and songwriter Jhené Aiko recited this poem she wrote for her mother, Christina Yamamoto, a woman of African American and Japanese ancestry:
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