Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto (born November 14, 1939)[1] is a Japanese-American folk singer, songwriter, author, and activist in the Asian American Movement.

According to Miyamoto, her earliest memory is of Santa Anita Park racetrack, where she and her family were being temporarily held before being sent to the incarceration camps for Japanese Americans following President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized this mass imprisonment.

[3] While performing in the Broadway run of Rogers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, Miyamoto became disenchanted with the representation of Asians in American popular culture, leaving the cast and moving to Seattle.

In 1972, Miyamoto and Chris Iijima were invited onto the Mike Douglas Show by guest hosts Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

Miyamoto had a son, Kamau, with Atallah Muhammad Ayubbi, who was killed in an ambush at a Brooklyn mosque months after the release of the album.

[11] In the years after 9/11, Great Leap began hosting FandangObon, a festival which brings together Japanese, Mexican, and African American music and dance traditions[12] in Los Angeles.