Aya Matsuura

Aya Matsuura (Japanese松浦亜弥, Matsuura Aya, born June 25, 1986 in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a J-pop singer, model and actress from Japan.

Biography

Aya took in 2000 at the Morning Musume & Heike Michiyo protegee Audition and won this. Erroneously, it is often claimed that she had participated in an audition for Morning Musume itself. This is not the case. In 2001 she made her debut as a soloist, however, and had her first appearance at the Spring Concert Morning Musume. The following year saw her first album, First KISS.

They quickly became a leading soloist in Hello! Project, was advertising jobs, own radio shows and several movie role offers. She was also a member of various sub-groups of Hello! Projects. It is worth mentioning here GAM, a duet with Miki Fujimoto, and DEF.DIVA with Maki Goto, Natsumi Abe and Rika Ishikawa. The publications of the groups achieved good rankings on the Oricon charts.

In 2009, she left as all under the Elder Club Acts, the Hello! Project. However, it is up to today in up-front promotion, the Company of the Hello! Project, under contract.

There is a blog called Ayablog and a Twitter account were opened. The blog was set but now. In addition, Aya announced a break and closed concerts for the next 2-3 years from.

In August 2011 it was announced that she was diagnosed with endometriosis Aya. The disease had already taken her to create previously and was the reason for their break. She wanted to continue to work as a singer, but may no longer be as active as before their illness.

Positive news was followed by the end of 2012: A magazine published the news that Aya would in 2013 marry her longtime friend, Keita Tachibana of w - inds the group. .