is a Japanese singer. Her career began in 2002 when she passed the audition for

Hello! Project Kids 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 has s ...

, an all-female child pop group under

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 has s ...

. She continued to sing in that group and became a part of four smaller groups composed of Hello! Project Kids members—

Aa! was a Japanese girl group in Hello! Project, formerly made up of leader and Morning Musume member Reina Tanaka, Miyabi Natsuyaki and Airi Suzuki, two Hello! Project Kids. History The group's name was chosen by producer and writer Tsunku to rep ...

Sexy Otonajan was a Japanese idol project group formed by Up-Front Promotion in 2000 and associated with Hello! Project. Beginning in 2000, the Shuffle Unit project was a yearly collaboration among existing Hello! Project acts, where members were recombined i ...

Buono! was a subgroup of the Japanese girl groups Berryz Kobo and Cute (Japanese idol group), Cute, formed in 2007 by Up-Front Promotion and associated with Hello! Project. The members consisted of Momoko Tsugunaga and Miyabi Natsuyaki from Berryz Kob ...

and

Berryz Kobo was a Japanese girl group formed by Up-Front Promotion in 2004 and associated with Hello! Project. The group's members consisted of Hello! Project Kids members Saki Shimizu, Momoko Tsugunaga, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Chinami Tokunaga, Maasa Sudo, Yuri ...

. She was the sub-captain of Berryz Kobo until their indefinite hiatus in 2015. She became a member of female pop band PINK CRES. (Pink Crescendo).

Career

2002–2004: Hello! Project Kids

In 2002, Natsuyaki successfully passed the

' Audition alongside other members of

. As a member of

, she participated in the band's weekly radio show ''Berryz Kobo Kiritsu! Rei! Chakuseki!''. That same year, she was cast in ''Koinu Dan no Monogatari'', however she did not have a large part due to her age. Many members of

and

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 ...

participated in this film. In 2004,

participated in a large shuffle group that produced one single, "All For One & One For All!". This song is considered one of the themes of

. In addition to the H.P. All Stars, she was placed in two shuffle units, Aa! and Sexy Otonajan. The group was made up of

Miki Fujimoto (born February 26, 1985), professionally known by her birth name of , and nicknamed Mikitty, is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. After failing the audition to join girl group Morning Musume with the fourth generation members, Fujimoto de ...

from

Megumi Murakami is a Japanese choreographer and former singer and actress. She first gained recognition when she joined Hello! Project Kids and later became the lead vocalist of the girl group Cute until her retirement in 2006. Career 2002–2005: Hello! P ...

from

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and Miyabi. They produced one song called "Onna, Kanashii, Otona". Earlier, in 2003, she was chosen to join the group

, which consisted of fellow

member

Airi Suzuki is a Japanese singer, actress, model, and radio personality associated with Up-Front Works. In 2002, she joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Project Kids and later debuted as one of the lead vocalists of the Japanese girl group Cute in ...

and was led by then Morning Musume member

Reina Tanaka is a Japanese singer and actress. She is the leader of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was one of the main vocalists of the girl group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name. ...

. The group released one single titled "First Kiss," on October 29, 2003. The group went on hiatus until the Hello! Project 2009 Summer tour at which many old shuffle units were renewed. During these concerts, Tanaka was replaced by Saho Akari, since Reina had joined the unit High King. The unit released one song, titled "YES YES YES" as part of the "Happy Wedding Song Cover" album released by Hello! Project.

2004–2016: Berryz Kobo and Buono!

Miyabi joined

alongside Berryz Kobo group-mate

Momoko Tsugunaga is a former Japanese singer, actress, and radio personality. Tsugunaga joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Project Kids at the age of 10 and later became part of the girl groups Berryz Kobo and Buono! Following Berryz Kobo's hiatus, sh ...

and

from

. The unit was officially announced at the Nakayoshi magazine Festival 2007 on July 21, 2007, at Tokyo's Sunshine City in Ikebukuro. They sang both the opening ("Kokoro no Tamago") and ending ("Honto no Jibun") themes for the anime adaptation of the Shugo Chara!

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. Buono! continued to record the ending and opening themes for the first season of the anime. During the second season, Buono! recorded only the ending themes, as the opening themes were handled by

Shugo Chara Egg! , also known as ''My Guardian Characters'', is a Japanese shōjo manga series created by the manga author duo, Peach-Pit. The story centers on elementary school girl Amu Hinamori, whose popular exterior, referred to as "cool and spicy" by her clas ...

and Guardians 4, two other groups formed for the sake of performing Shugo Chara! music.

2016–present: Pink Cres.

After Berryz Kobo went on indefinite hiatus, Miyabi took a one-month break and then joined the YouTube show "Green Room" with fellow former Berryz Kobo member

Chinami Tokunaga (born May 22, 1992) is a Japanese singer. She is a former member of the J-pop idol group Berryz Kobo. History Tokunaga was born in Kanagawa, Japan. In 2002, she passed the Hello! Project Kids audition and became a member of Hello! Project. ...

, which was uploaded weekly and centered around the behind the scenes aspects of Up Front Group members. In August 2015, Miyabi announced she was creating a new girl group and held auditions on July 1, 2015. The group,

Pink Cres. was a Japanese girl group formed by Up-Front Create in 2016. The group consisted of three members: Miyabi Natsuyaki, Hikaru Kobayashi, and Yūka Nihei. History Miyabi Natsuyaki was a member of the Japanese idol girl group Berryz Kobo since 2 ...

, was later revealed at

's 2016 Buono! Festa concert.

Discography

Solo photobooks

Acting

Television

* ''Little Hospital'' (リトル・ホスピタル) (2003)

Movies

* ''Koinu Dan no Monogatari'' (2002) * ''Promise Land ~Clovers no Daibōken~'' (2004) * '' Gomennasai'' (October 29, 2011) * ''

Ōsama Game is a cell phone novel written by Nobuaki Kanazawa (pen name: Pakkuncho), consisting of five volumes. A film based on the novel was released in 2011, and directed by Norio Tsuruta. The theme song of the film is " Amazuppai Haru ni Sakura Saku" ...

'' (2011)

Radio

* ''Berryz Kobo Kiritsu! Rei! Chakuseki!'' (March 30, 2005 – March 31, 2009) * ''Tsuukai! Berryz Okoku'' (July 3, 2009 – March 30, 2012) (Co-host: Sugaya Risako and Kumai Yurina)

References

External links

*
PINK CRES.
Official Website

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