is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. She is a former tenth-generation member and sub-leader of the pop group

Morning Musume , formerly simply and colloquially referred to as , are a Japanese girl group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an ...

and former model for the Japanese fashion magazine '' Love Berry''.

Biography

Early life

Haruna Īkubo was born on November 7, 1994, in Tokyo, Japan.

2009–2011: Modelling

In 2009, Haruna won a special award at the exclusive auditions for the fashion magazine '' Love Berry''. She first appeared as a model in the June number of the magazine. Since the July issue, Haruna Iikubo adopted the stage name . She "graduated" from ''Love Berry'' (left the project) in the February 2011 number.

2009–2018: Debut in Morning Musume

On September 29, 2011, at a concert at

Nippon Budokan The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. While its primary purpose is to host martial arts con ...

, which was part of ''Morning Musume Concert Tour 2011 Aki Ai Believe: Takahashi Ai Sotsugyō Kinen Special'', it was announced that Haruna Iikubo passed the auditions alongside three other girls: Ayumi Ishida,

Masaki Satō (born May 7, 1999 in Sapporo, Hokkaido) is a Japanese pop singer. She is a former tenth-generation member of the pop group Morning Musume. Early life Masaki Satō was born on May 7, 1999 in Hokkaido, Japan. Career 2011–present: Debut with ...

and Haruka Kudō, and would be joining

. On April 18, 2012, it was announced that Morning Musume's Tanaka Reina and the 9th & 10th Generation members would participate in a new stage play titled Stacey's Shoujo Saisatsu Kageki. The musical ran from June 6 to 12. On July 20, it was announced that Iikubo, Yajima Maimi, Tokunaga Chinami, Natsuyaki Miyabi and Nakajima Saki were chosen to form the unit DIY♡. On May 21, 2013, at Tanaka Reina's graduation concert, Haruna and Fukumura Mizuki were appointed the new sub-leaders of Morning Musume. On August 17, 2018, Iikubo Haruna announced on her blog that she will graduate from both Morning Musume '18 and Hello! Project at the end of the fall tour Morning Musume '18 Concert Tour Aki ~Get Set, Go!~. She left the group on December 16, 2018. On December 15, Iikubo announced she would produce and lend her voice to the virtual idol Ni-na under the VR corporation HIKKY.

Discography

''For Haruna Īkubo's releases with

, see

Morning Musume discography The discography of the Japanese girl group Morning Musume consists of sixteen studio albums, five compilation albums, and seventy single (music), singles. Ever since its establishment in 1997, the group has experienced frequent line-up changes, and ...

.''

Bibliography

Photobooks

# (January 28, 2017, Odyssey Books, ) #''Female'' (May 12, 2018, Odyssey Books, )

Filmography

Movies

* (2011) * (2019)

Television

* ( Chubu-Nippon/ TBS, 2010) * ' (

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, 2012) * (2019) * (2019)

Theater

* (2012) * (2013) * (2015) * (2016) * (2017) * (2017) * (2019)

References

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