, known professionally as , is a Japanese singer. She is a former member of ZOC,

Hello! Project is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but ...

idol group

Angerme , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (''Hello! Project'' trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of ''Hello ...

and Shugo Chara Egg!.

Career

Early years with Hello! Project

On April 4, 2009,

Tsunku , known professionally as , is a Japanese singer, record producer, and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the rock band Sharam Q. As a songwriter, Tsunku is the primary producer for Morning Musume and other Hello! Project acts, such as Co ...

announced a new girl group consisting of Kanon Fukuda, Yuka Maeda and Ayaka Wada – all of whom were members of Shugo Chara Egg! – alongside a Hello! Pro Egg member Saki Ogawa. On May 5, 2009, Tsunku revealed the name of the new group to be Smileage on his blog. Fukuda and the rest of the Smileage members graduated from Hello! Pro Egg in Hello! Project's spring concert in May 2010. She and fellow Smileage members,

Yuuka Maeda is a former Japanese singer. After joining Hello Pro Egg, a trainee program associated with Hello! Project, she achieved early fame as Amulet Heart in Shugo Chara Egg! before debuting in S/mileage, a Japanese idol girl group associated with ...

and

Ayaka Wada is a Japanese singer and idol signed to YU-M Entertainment. She was a first generation member and the leader of Angerme as well as the leader of Hello! Project. * Biography Wada joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Pro Egg in June 2 ...

were later chosen to be the lead voice actors for '' Lilpri''. When Smileage re-branded to Angerme in late 2014, Fukuda announced her departure from the group and Hello! Project on May 20, 2015. She graduated on November 29, 2015, at a concert held at

Nippon Budokan The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. The Budokan was a popular venue for Japanese professional wres ...

2020–present: ZOC

On March 27, 2020, Fukuda joined ZOC under the stage name Maro Kannagi. She left ZOC on March 31, 2024.

Discography

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kannagi, Maro Angerme members Japanese idols Japanese lyricists Minimoni members Voice actresses from Saitama (city) Living people 1995 births Singers from Saitama Prefecture 21st-century Japanese actresses