also known as ''Aki'', is a Japanese singer, as a

solo artist In music, a solo (from the Spanish and Italian based-word: ''Solo'', meaning ''alone'' or ''by yourself'') is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an ...

and former member of the

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J-pop J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the ...

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

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with it ...

's First AKK Kenky Audience (Force 4), which included 18 people who were accepted as training students on May 27, 2007. Shizuka Ōya, Amina Sato and Reina Fujie 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 is a Japanese TV personality, singer, actress, and YouTuber. She is a former member of Japanese idol girl group SKE48 and former concurrent member of AKB48 (in 2012–2015). She is recognized as SKE48's absolute "ace", having placed in the top 1 ...

, Rikako Hirata, and Haruka Ono. The television drama aired January 12, 2011 to March 30, 2011 on

Tokai Television Broadcasting Tōkai ( 東海, literally ''East Sea'') in Japanese may refer to: * Tōkai region, a subregion of Chūbu * Tōkai, Ibaraki, a village, also known as "Tokaimura" (Tokai-village) * Tōkai, Aichi, a city * Tōkai University, a private university in T ...

. She is no longer elected as a senbatsu member since the inaugural single ''

Tsuyoki Mono yo is the first single by Japanese girl group SKE48, their first (and also last) under Lantis. It is an ending theme for ''Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen''. It reached the 5th place on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart and, as of September 21, 2009 (i ...

'' 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
at Ameblo *
Official page at SKE48

Official blog at SKE48
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deguchi, Aki 1988 births Living people People from Matsusaka, Mie SKE48 members AKB48 members 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers