is a Japanese pop singer. She is a former member of the
J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in trad ...
girl group
BeForU.
Biography
Early life
Minami was born in
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 787,592 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the n ...
on December 24, 1983.
Career
Combined with Miharu Arisawa and Risa Sotohana, two other members of BeForU, the trio is commonly called
BeForU Next
BeForU was a Japanese pop girl group that performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games. Their 2000 debut song "Dive" was particularly notable as being the first Japanese-language pop song in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' seri ...
. Minami released the song "Under The Sky" with PlatoniX. The song was included in ''
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova
, released in Europe as ''Dancing Stage SuperNova'' is an arcade and PlayStation 2 game in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' (''DDR'') series of music video games. It was produced by Konami and released through Betson Enterprises. The game was rele ...
'' and ''
Beatmania IIDX 12: Happy Sky''. She left BeForU in 2008, and now goes under the name .
References
External links
Aco Tojo's official Blog
BeForU
Living people
1983 births
Japanese women pop singers
Singers from Yamanashi Prefecture
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