Yoshimi P-We, born Yoshimi Yokota (横田佳美, Yokota Yoshimi?) is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band,
Boredoms. Yoshimi also plays trumpet, guitar, and keyboard, and sings. Yoshimi joined her first band
UFO or Die with
Yamatsuka Eye (aka
Yamantaka Eye) in 1986. Since 1997 she has led the all-female band,
OOIOO, and continues to contribute to the current incarnation of
Boredoms. Yoshimi has worked on a great number of other projects most notably a raga band
Saicobaba, an ambient project
Yoshimi and Yuka and indie supergr…
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