 Her grandmother, Chizuko Furukawa, was a published lyricist and composer.Her grandfather, Haruo Furukawa , was an entomologist and author of books, such as the translation of Fabre insect series, which inspired Chizuko Furukawa's compositions about the small world of insects composed for NHK in Japan.Furukawa's father and uncle perform in several notable bluegrass, folk, country, and Hawaiian blues bands in Tokyo.