Yuko AMANO

As a top DJ in Japan, she DJs frequently in leading milongas in Tokyo, festivals/marathons and other special tango events in many cities in Japan. After 2017, her name is also broadly well-known as the official DJ of Tango Dance Asian Championship. She is also a tango marathon enthusiast who has repeatedly traveled around Asia and Europe to dance and play music. Outside Japan, she has DJed in Singapore, Taipei, Beijing, Seoul, Daegue, HongKong, London and BuenosAires.

At the age of 12, she started listening to tangos and collecting all kinds of tango recordings as vinyls, CDs and rare shellacs. Her DJ career started in 2004. She studied under the old great tango collectors in Japan. With her enormous tango collection, she can create the dance floor atmosphere freely to keep dancers dancing. Now she leads her own tango music study group, and also gives lectures on tango DJing for some radio programs or for the tango instructors of in Japan Federación Japonesa de Tango Argentino (FJTA).

Yuko AMANO，作為日本頂尖的探戈DJ之一，她經常在東京的主要探戈舞會、以及日本各城市的探戈節／馬拉松與各重要探戈活動中演出。自2017年起，她更成為亞洲探戈錦標賽的官方指定DJ，名聲廣為人知。她也是一位探戈馬拉松愛好者，曾多次前往亞洲與歐洲各地跳舞並擔任DJ。她曾在新加坡、台北、北京、首爾、大邱、香港、倫敦與布宜諾斯艾利斯等地播放音樂。

從12歲起，她便開始聆聽探戈音樂，並蒐集各種探戈錄音，例如黑膠唱片、CD與少見的蟲膠唱片。她於2004年開始DJ生涯，並向日本的資深探戈收藏家學習。憑藉其龐大的音樂收藏，她能夠自由地營造舞池氛圍，讓舞者盡情舞動。

目前，她領導自己的探戈音樂研究小組，並為一些電台節目或日本阿根廷探戈協會（FJTA）的教師講授探戈DJ相關課程。