[3] She became interested in jazz while playing in her junior high school big band.
[3] She moved to New York in 2012 and took a compositional residency at the Kennedy Center in 2015.
[2] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she recorded the album Stairway to the Stars in her living room with Mark Turner and Orlando le Fleming.
[4] For her first gig after the pandemic, Yamanaka wore a kimono outfit to honor her mother; since then she has dressed in one every time she plays.
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