also known as ''Aki'', is a Japanese singer, as a solo artist and former member of the

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group

SKE48 SKE48 (S.K.E. Forty-eight) is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. SKE48 is named after the Sakae district in Nagoya of Aichi Prefecture, where the group is based. The group performs at SKE48 Theater on 2F of Sunshine Sakae, a ...

Career

Deguchi participated in

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's First AKK Kenky Audience (Force 4), which included 18 people who were accepted as training students on May 27, 2007. Shizuka Ōya,

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and

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were among her contemporaries at AKB48. At the Sunflower 1st Stage theater show "Boku no Taiyou", November 26, 2007, she announced her departure from AKB48 on the grounds of wanting to continue her studies. But she did not retire from singing. Deguchi re-auditioned, this time for SKE48. She was among the 22 people who passed the audition on July 31, 2008. Deguchi was selected as one of the 16 members of the Senbatsu for the first SKE48 theater performance of Team S 1st Stage "Party ga Hajimaru yo". She took to the stage of the SKE48 Theater for the first time on October 5, 2008. When Team S was formed in March 2009, its members came from 16 members of the theatrical performances senbatsu, including Deguchi. The television drama series ''Paranoid detective!'' starring SKE48 members was her first acting experience. Her role as one of the detectives together with Jurina Matsui, Rikako Hirata, and Haruka Ono. The television drama aired January 12, 2011 to March 30, 2011 on Tokai Television Broadcasting. She is no longer elected as a senbatsu member since the inaugural single ''

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'' involving all members of SKE48. In 2014, left SKE48. In 2015, released her first solo single "FLASHBACK."

Discography

References

External links

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Official blog
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Official page at SKE48

Official blog at SKE48
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