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Yuko Nakazawa

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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume. She is also a member of Japanese pop group Dream Morning Musume.

BiographyEdit

Yuko Nakazawa was born in Kyoto Prefecture. She was one of five runners-up in a 1997 talent contest for a new Japanese pop idol. After the contest, musician and producer Tsunku offered Nakazawa and the four other runners-up (Natsumi Abe, Kaori Iida, Aya Ishiguro, and Asuka Fukuda) the chance to be taken under his wing under one condition: they must sell 50,000 CDs of their debut song "Ai no Tane" with five days of live promotion. The quintet accomplished that task in four and thus Morning Musume was born. The group has since grown increasingly popular, it maintains a "school-like" system for their continuous line-up changes, with older members "graduating" and new, usually younger, members selected from nationwide auditions admitted to the group almost annually.

In 1998, shortly after Morning Musume's formation, Nakazawa began a solo career, beginning with enka styled songs. She gradually moved to a more pop sound, but has recently gone back to enka with her eleventh single, "Urara." Her solo work has allowed her voice to shine in a way it rarely did in Morning Musume, as she mostly sung harmonies with only a few solo lines.

Nakazawa has been a regular featured singer on Hello! Project's "Folk Songs" series. She was also placed in Akagumi 4 in Hello! Project's 2000 summer shuffles and Puripuri Pink in Hello!Project's 2005 summer shuffles, as well as participating in H.P. All Stars along with most of the rest of Hello!Project in 2004.

Being the oldest of the 1st generation of Morning Musume—she was 24 at the time of formation and nearly 28 upon leaving the group—Nakazawa held the role of the group's leader until her graduation on April 15, 2001. She has cited her reasons for leaving as being her age (she was 14 years older than the youngest member of the troupe, then 13-year-old Ai Kago, at the time of her departure) and her desire to pursue other things by the time she was 30.

Since then, Nakazawa has done some work in Japanese dramas such as Beauty 7 and Home Maker, performed in various plays, and continued in her solo singing career at a steady pace with reasonable success. She worked closely with Morning Musume and hosted their weekly show Hello! Morning (first regularly, then occasionally), until its end in early 2007.

It was announced on October 19, 2008, by Hello! Project that Nakazawa, along with the rest of Elder Club will graduate from Hello! Project on March 31, 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On February 1, 2009, during the "Hello Pro Award '09 ~Elder Club Sotsugyō Kinen Special~" concert held at Yokohama Arena, Nakazawa passed on her leadership position in Hello! Project to Ai Takahashi of Morning Musume.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2010, it was announced Yuko Nakazawa will be joining the new group, "Dream Morning Musume" alongside other former-Morning Musume members.

Personal lifeEdit

In March 2012, it was announced that Nakazawa had married an information technology company president one year her senior in a private ceremony.<ref>"Nakazawa Yuko gets married on April 1st". Tokyo Hive.</ref> They have two little boys.

DiscographyEdit

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AlbumsEdit

# Title Release date Peak rank Short description
Studio albums
1 Template:Nihongo December 12, 1998 #59
2 Template:Nihongo July 22, 2004 #31
Folk Songs Series
1 Folk Songs November 29, 2001 #9
2 Folk Songs 2 May 22, 2002 #20
3 FS3 Folk Songs 3 October 23, 2002 #17
4 FS4 Folk Songs 4 May 21, 2003 #25
5 Template:Nihongo February 25, 2004 #36
Other albums
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December 10, 2008 #182
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SinglesEdit

# Title Release date Peak rank
1 Template:Nihongo October 5, 1998 #19
2 Template:Nihongo December 2, 1998 #29
3 Template:Nihongo June 9, 1999 #24
4 Template:Nihongo July 12, 2000 #18
5 Template:Nihongo February 15, 2001 #13
6 Template:Nihongo August 1, 2001 #13
7 Template:Nihongo August 28, 2002 #14
8 "Get Along with You" May 21, 2003 #30
9 Template:Nihongo February 11, 2004 #42
10 "Do My Best" May 26, 2004 #52
11 Template:Nihongo September 27, 2006 #32
12 Template:Nihongo October 10, 2007 #57

Videos / DVDsEdit

# Title Release date
1 Template:Nihongo February 28, 2002
2 Template:Nihongo November 27, 2002
3 Template:Nihongo January 22, 2003
4 FS3 Live February 26, 2003

ActsEdit

DramasEdit

Title Start date End date TV station
Template:Nihongo 2001–07 2001–09 Nippon Television
Template:Nihongo 2001-01 2001–03 Nippon Television
Template:Nihongo 2002-01 2002–03 Nippon Television
Template:Nihongo 2002–04 2002–06 Nippon Television
Template:Nihongo 2003 Nippon Television
Template:Nihongo 2004-01 2004-03 TBS
2004–10 2004–12
2005–06 2005–09
Template:Nihongo 2004-04 2004–06 TBS
Template:Nihongo 2007-04-23 TBS

Variety showsEdit

Title Start date End date TV station
Template:Nihongo 2000–03 2007–03 TV Tokyo
Template:Nihongo 1999-01-05 1999-12-28 TV Tokyo
2001–04 2002-03-26
Template:Nihongo 2001-10-07 2004-09-28 TV Asahi
Template:Nihongo — Fuji Television
Template:Nihongo — NHK
Template:Nihongo 2001 2005-02-12 NHK
Template:Nihongo 2005-04 2006-03 Mainichi Broadcasting System
Template:Nihongo 2006-04-11 2006-09-26 Mainichi Broadcasting System
Template:Nihongo 2001–10 2003-03 Fuji Television
2005-01-18 2006-07-03

MoviesEdit

Title Release Character Company
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Radio showsEdit

CommercialsEdit

PublicationsEdit

PhotobooksEdit

Title Release date Produced by ISBN
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Essay booksEdit

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