is a Japanese model, talent, and a former idol singer member of the

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 ...

group Country Musume.

Career

She was also a member of Hello! Project's futsal team, Gatas Brilhantes H.P. She has released one self-titled solo photobook and also a single, with the

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duo, Fujioka Fujimaki. In early 2007, Satoda was added to the unit Pabo () along with Suzanne and Yukina Kinoshita, created by the

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's quiz show

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. The group released the single "Koi no Hexagon", used as the show's closing theme. She was later added to the group Ongaku Gatas.

Personal life

Satoda's husband is Japanese baseball player Masahiro Tanaka, who pitched for the

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from 2014 to 2020. They had a son in 2016.

Discography and releases

in Hello! Project - Up-Front Group Discography

Singles (Country Musume.)

In Country Musume. ni Rika Ishikawa (Morning Musume.)

# #

In Country Musume. ni Konno to Fujimoto (Morning Musume.)

# # #

Singles (Romans)

In Romans

Singles (Mai Satoda with Fujimaki Fujioka)

Mai Satoda with Fujimaki Fujioka

# #

Singles (Ongaku Gatas)

In Ongaku Gatas

# # # Come Together (released Sep 10, 2008) # READY! KICK OFF!! (released Mar 6, 2010)

Albums

In Country Musume.

In Ongaku Gatas

# 1st GOODSAL (released Feb 6, 2008)

Other Discography

Singles

# # # "Don't leave me" (with Gōda Kazoku, released June 17, 2009)

In Pabo

# #

In Aladdin

Photobooks

# # ''My Life'' (released March 21, 2007) # ''Mai-Thai'' (released December 26, 2007)

References

External links

里田まいの里田米
- Satoda's personal blog
里田まい - hi5 private profile

Official Hello! Project profile
* Up-Front Works

* 1984 births Living people Japanese female models Japanese women television personalities Japanese idols Japanese women pop singers Country Musume members Elegies (group) members 7Air members Singers from Sapporo {{Japan-singer-stub