is a Japanese pop singer. She is a former member of the

J-pop J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the ...

girl group

BeForU BeForU were a Japanese pop group that performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games. Their 2000 debut song "Dive" was particularly notable as being the first Japanese-language pop song in the '' Dance Dance Revolution'' series ...

Biography

Early life

Minami was born in

Yamanashi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 (1 January 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the ...

on December 24, 1983.

Career

Combined with Miharu Arisawa and Risa Sotohana, two other members of BeForU, the trio is commonly called

BeForU Next BeForU were a Japanese pop group that performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games. Their 2000 debut song "Dive" was particularly notable as being the first Japanese-language pop song in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' series. ...

. Minami released the song "Under The Sky" with PlatoniX. The song was included in ''

Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova , released in Europe as ''Dancing Stage SuperNova'', is an arcade and PlayStation 2 game in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' (''DDR'') series of music video games. It was produced by Konami and released through Betson Enterprises. The game was rele ...

'' and '' Beatmania IIDX 12: Happy Sky''. She left BeForU in 2008, and now goes under the name .

References

External links

Aco Tojo's official Blog
BeForU Living people 1983 births Japanese women pop singers Musicians from Yamanashi Prefecture {{japan-musician-stub