is a member of the

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SKE48 SKE48 (S.K.E. Forty-eight) is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. SKE48 is named after the Sakae district in Nagoya of Aichi Prefecture, where the group is based. The group performs at SKE48 Theater on 2F of Sunshine Sakae, a s ...

. She is a member of SKE48's Team KII, and a former member of

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Career

Furuhata was born in

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, and passed

's 5th generation auditions in October 2011. Her audition song was SKE48's

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. Her debut was on November 26, 2011. On August 29, 2012, she was promoted to Team E. She held a concurrent position in

's Team K from April 2013 to February 2014. Her first SKE48 Senbatsu was for the single Utsukushii Inazuma. In February 2014, during the AKB48 Group Shuffle, it was announced she would be transferred to Team KII and her concurrent position would be shifted to Team A. In the 2014 general elections, she ranked for the first time, placing 55th with 14,634 votes. On 26 March 2015, it was announced that she would be relieved of her concurrent position in AKB48. Furuhata released three music videos in collaboration with the metal band

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on April 4, 2020, where they covered songs from SKE48 and her 2018 solo EP. The two acts were originally scheduled to perform together in Tokyo and Osaka, but the concerts were cancelled due to the

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Appearances

TV dramas

* '' Yamegoku: Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu'' Episode 3 ( TBS, 2015), Ai Kazami * '' Majisuka Gakuen 4'' (2015) as Diva * '' Majisuka Gakuen 5'' (2015) as Snake * ''AKB Horror Night: Adrenaline's Night'' Ep.4 - Wrong Number (2015) * ''Gekijōrei Kara no Shōtaijō'' Episode 5 (2015) as Haruka Ishizuka * ''AKB Love Night: Love Factory'' Ep.14 - Right Hook Girlfriend (2016) as Misa

Stages

* Musical '' AKB49: Ren'ai Kinshi Jōrei'' (14–15 March 2015,

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), Minori Urakawa/Minoru Urayama * ''Hana Yori Dango The Musical'' (January–February 2016), Shizuka Tōdou

Discography

Solo singles

* (October 13, 2017) Labels: Showroom Records * (August 24, 2022) Labels: Zest

SKE48

Singles

Sub-Unit Singles

; Koppu no Naka no Komorebi * "Aishiteru to ka, Aishiteta to ka" / Furumarion * "Otanoshimi wa ashita kara" / Aichi Toyota Senbatsu

Albums

AKB48

Singles

Albums

External links

SKE48 Official Profile

Official Blog

Nao Furuhata
on

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References

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