Nao Sakamoto

is a Japanese singer, a voice actress, and is an undergraduate school student of Tokyo University, one of the top-level research universities in Japan. Her real name is , and she is sometimes affectionately nicknamed by her Japanese fans.

She is a member of the singing group, New DUP, which was founded by BROCCOLI Inc. to promote its mascot characters, Dejiko, Usada and Puchiko (from the anime '' Di Gi Charat''), where Minakami is the voice actress for Puchiko.

New DUP hosts a radio show called , and it comprises three Japanese voice actresses: Satomi Akesaka, Yasawa Rieka, and Minakami.

Biography

Nao Minakami was born in Kagoshima, Japan. As a child, she was a huge fan of the anime series '' Di Gi Charat'' and has later stated that the series was her first inspiration to become a voice artist.

As 2008 is the tenth anniversary of the series '' Di Gi Charat'', BROCCOLI Inc. decided to recast actress of main characters of series '' Di Gi Charat''. Minakami's career as a voice actress started when she won the audition for a character from the forementioned series, Puchiko, in January, 2008. She was chosen for the role among over a thousand candidates. In the same month, the new cast of Degiko, Puchiko and Usada, who are Satomi Akesaka, Nao Minakami and Rieka Yazawa respectively, founded New DUP, a J-Pop group, to promote series '' Di Gi Charat'' and to help launch the voice actresses' careers.

Music

* ''Kimi wa　Boku no Energy'' (as a member of New DUP)

Radio

* ''Degiko Radio

2008

External links

* http://www.broccoli.co.jp/dejiko/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080704054808/http://minakaminao.blog37.fc2.com/
* http://www.broccoli.co.jp/radio/dejikoradio/

1987 births
Living people
Singers from Kagoshima Prefecture
Voice actresses from Kagoshima Prefecture
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese women singers

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