Clare Uchima

Claire Uchima (内間くれあ) was born in Osaka, Japan, to a Scottish father and Japanese mother. Aside from her parents and other siblings, Uchima also lived with her grandparents, who influenced and instilled Okinawan culture into her.

By age 15, Claire and her siblings moved to Scotland, after her mother decided it was best to raise her children as bicultural and bilingual. Because she couldn’t speak English well, Uchima turned to music as an escape and her music was heavily supported by her school teachers, which encouraged her to pick up piano again, and even started singing.

Uchima would later spend a gap year in Edinburgh, and studied jazz at a university in London.

Claire is also a session musician, who has spent more than 15 years touring with big acts such as Kate Tempest, Harry Styles, KT Tunstall, Ghostpoet and many other artists.

Aside from her career as a musician, Uchima is also a certified yoga instructor and enterpreuner, opening Majo Medicine – a skincare and wellbeing company – with her sister Rosa in 2016.