Famous People with Name Machi

Machi Tawara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Machi Tawara: a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet. She is credited with revitalizing the tanka (a type of poem that can be seen as a predecessor of the haiku) for modern Japanese audiences. Her skill as a translator consist of translating classical Japanese into modern Japanese, for example books such as the Man'yoshu and the Taketori Monogatari.She was born in 1962 in Osaka Prefecture, and moved to Fukui Prefecture when she was 14 years old. In 1981, she graduated from Waseda University with a degree in Japanese literature. Under the influence of the poet Sasaki Yukitsuna, she began to write tanka. After graduation, Tawara began teaching at Kanagawa Prefecture's Hashimoto High School, and she taught there until 1989.

Machiel De Graaf            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Machiel De Graaf: is a Dutch politician and physical therapist. As a member of the Party for Freedom (PVV) he has been a member of the Senate as well as Senate group leader since June 7, 2011. He has already been a PVV member of the municipal council of The Hague since March 11, 2010 as well as fraction leader since January 20, 2011.

Machiko Soga            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Machiko Soga: was a Japanese voice actor and actress. Her mother died when she was a child; she was raised by her father. She had two brothers and a sister. One of her brothers died during a war; the other is still alive. Her sister died in childbirth, and her father d

Machiko Tsutsumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Machiko Tsutsumi: a Japanese entrepreneur.She claims that she was born February 28, 1961 in Minatoku, Tokyo, and her father is an executive of a listed company. But actually she was born in Edogawaku, Tokyo, as a daughter of an owner of a small laundry. Her real name is Tsurumi Masako (????). After graduated of an evening high school in 1977, she worked as a waitress, an office worker, and a bunny girl of a night club. When she got a part-time job in a company called Shichiyô Kikaku (????), she had an affair with the owner, Kubota Yasuo (????).

Machito            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Machito: was an influential Latin jazz musician. [1] His sister was the singer Graciela.Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz. His bands of the 1940s, especially the band named the Afro-Cubans, were among the first to fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz improvisation. Machito was the front man, singer, conductor, and maraca player of the Afro-Cubans and its successors. Machito's brother-in-law Mario Bauza, the musical director, influenced Machito to hire jazz-oriented arrangers.