Aya Matsuura

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is a female Japanese popular music artist and actress who was born on June 25, 1986 in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture.

Contents

1 Career
2 Discography

2.1 Singles
2.2 Albums
2.3 DVD
2.4 Video

3 Appearances

3.1 TV
3.2 Radio
3.3 TV advertisements
3.4 Game

4 External links

Career

Aya auditioned in 2000, and became the 4th member selected to be a part of the "little sister" portion of artists that worked along side Morning Musume (Which later became known as Hello! Project); Another H!P group, Sheki Dol also came out of the 4th audition. It is a common misconception that Aya originally auditioned to be a part of Morning Musume, when she didn't. The only H!P members to date that have done so, and been placed elsewhere are Mai Satoda, Miuna Saitou and Miki Fujimoto, who was later inserted into MM anyway. Anyhow, after being chosen from that audition, Aya Matsuura began her solo career, with which, after time that is, she would become one of H!P's biggest acts.

Aside from a successful solo career, Aya Matsuura (nicknamed Ayaya), has also done numerous collaborations with other members of Hello! Project, including special, usually short lived groups Gomattou with Maki Goto and Miki Fujimoto; Nochiura Natsumi with Maki Goto and Natsumi Abe; and DEF.DIVA with Maki Goto, Natsumi Abe, and Ishikawa Rika. She's also done the "Folk Song" series which feature Yuko Nakazawa and other H!P artists, as well as Hello! Project's shuffle groups (Ayaya was placed in 3-nin Matsuri for 2001, Odoru 11 in 2002, Salt 5 in 2003, and the larger H!P All Stars in 2004).

Matsuura has been in many commercials for various companies (notably Pretz snack foods, Epson color printers, and Kirin beverages). Currently she also takes part and co-hosts the television show Utawara with other names in Japanese entertainment such as Johnny Jimusho's Matsumoto Jun.

Discography

Singles

– 11 April 2001
– 13 June 2001
– 5 September 2001
– 28 November 2001
– 6 February 2002
– 29 May 2002
– 19 September 2002
– 11 December 2002
12 March 2003
– 4 June 2003
"THE LAST NIGHT" – 26 September 2003
– 28 January 2004
– 10 March 2004
– 14 July 2004
– 20 October 2004
– 26 November 2004, the theme song of "Hamtaro the Movie 4 (劇場版とっとこハム太郎はむはむぱらだいちゅ! ハム太郎とふしぎのオニの絵本塔, Gekijo-ban Tottoko Hamutaro Ham-Ham Paradise, Hamutaro to Fushigi no Oni no Ehonto")
– 23 February 2005
– 21 September 2005
– 1 February 2006

Albums

DVD

– 7 August 2002
– 9 October 2002
– 11 December 2002
– 16 January 2003
– 19 February 2003
– 26 February 2003
– 5 March 2003—With the original casting
– 12 March 2003
– 2 May 2003
– 21 May 2003
– 4 June 2003
– 2 July 2003
– 18 September 2003
– 28 January 2004
– 4 February 2004
– 14 April 2004
– 12 May 2004
– 7 July 2004
– 28 July 2004
– 11 August 2004
– 10 November 2004
– 1 December 2004
– 2 March 2005
– 20 June 2005
– 28 September 2005
– 7 December 2005

Video

Appearances

TV

– Fuji TV and the other FNS TV stations, on November 22, 2003
– Nippon TV and the other NNS TV stations, July 17, 2004 - September 18)
– Nippon TV and the other NNS TV stations, April 13, 2005 - September 28
A – Nippon TV and the other NNS TV stations, April, 2005 - June 26
– Nippon TV and the other NNS TV stations, October 16, 2005 - Present
– Nippon TV etc., since April 4, 2006

Radio

– JOLF, etc., April, 2001 - March 27, 2005)
– JOLF and other thirty-five radio stations in Japan, March 30, 2005 - Present)

TV advertisements

Pretz (since 2002, Ezaki Glico)
Papico (since 2004, Ezaki Glico)
Pocky (2004 – 2005, Ezaki Glico)
Gogo no Kocha (since 2002, Kirin Beverage)
Colorio Printer (2003 – 2005, Epson)
SKY PerfecTV! (since 2004, SKY Perfect Communications)
Yakisoba UFO (since 2005, Nissin), etc.
SHISEIDO
SEGA PuyoPuyo Fever
Youfuku no Aoyama

Game

Guitar Freaks8th mix/drummania7th mix (Momoiro Kataomoi)

External links

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