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Hiromi Uehara - known professionally by her first name - is a jazz pianist who has achieved international success playing with established artists as well as her own releases. Born on March 26, 1979, in the coastal city of Hamamatsu on the Japanese island of Honshu, she took piano lessons from the age of six and studied at the Yamaha School of Music. After a couple of years writing jingles for Japanese firms, she moved to America in 1999 and graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music. A teacher there - jazz bassist named Richard Evans - introduced her to pianist and bandlea...