is a Japanese pop singer and dancer. She is an 11th-generation member 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 ...

. Prior to joining Morning Musume, Oda was a

Hello! Pro Egg (formerly known as until January 2012) is a pre-debut training group established by Japanese entertainment agency Up-Front Group is a Japanese holding company for various entertainment companies. Its subsidiaries include the talent agenc ...

member.

Career

In the summer of 2011, Sakura Oda took part in the

S/mileage , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (''Hello! Project'' trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of ''Hello! ...

2nd generation audition, but did not pass. In November 2011, she was added to

, a Hello! Project trainee group, which was later renamed "Hello! Pro Kenshūsei". In the middle of 2012, Sakura Oda participated in the 11th generation audition for

, in which 7,000 applicants took part. She advanced to the final round, with 5 other girls. On 14 September 2012, at a public dress rehearsal of Morning Musume 15th Anniversary Concert Tour held at Harmony Hall Zama in

Kanagawa is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...

(Sakura's home prefecture), it was announced that Sakura Oda was the only one chosen to join the group.

Personal life

Her nickname in Hello! Pro Kenshūsei is Sakura. She admires

Ai Takahashi (born September 14, 1986) is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Hello! Project and is best known as the leader of Morning Musume and Hello! Project until 2011. She is also a former member of its popular subgroup Mini Moni ...

and

Risa Niigaki is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a fifth-generation member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined Morning Musume in 2001 along with 3 others- Ai Takahashi, Asami Konno and Makoto Ogawa. She grew up in Yokohama after movin ...

in terms of singing, and Saki Nakajima from

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in terms of dancing.

Hello! Project groups

(2011–2012) *

(2012–present) * ODATOMO (2014–2016)

Discography

: ''For Sakura Oda'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 ...

.''

Solo DVDs and Blu-rays

Bibliography

Oda's photobook "モーニング娘。’19 小田さくら写真集さくらのきせつ" (out in March 2019) reached the top 10 of the Oricon photobook chart.

References

External links

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Morning Musume official profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oda, Sakura Japanese women pop singers Living people Morning Musume members Japanese female idols 1999 births People from Zama, Kanagawa Musicians from Kanagawa Prefecture