ArtistInfo

Morning Musume

Band, JP
Pop
A.k.a. モーニング娘。

Japanese girl group formed in 1997 by rock singer-songwriter turned record producer Tsunku, who later composed a vast majority of the group's songs over the decade. They are the lead group of Hello! Project that specialises in upbeat, pop-oriented music coupled with dance performance. The group's name can be translated as Morning Girls; as the name suggests, it consists of members mostly in their late adolescence and early 20s.The average age of the group members has remained more or less unchanged since its original formation because the group maintains a "school-like" system for their continuous line-up changes, with older members "graduating" and new, usually younger, members selected from nationwide auditions admitted to the group annually.

Members

	Maki Goto voc *1985 JP
	Koharu Kusumi *1992 JP
	Kei Yasuda voc JP
	Natsumi Abe voc *1981 JP
	Yuko Nakazawa voc JP
	Sayaka Ichii voc JP
	Mari Yaguchi voc
	Kaori Iida voc JP
	Nozomi Tsuji voc JP
	Risa Niigaki voc JP
	Rika Ishikawa voc *1985 JP
	Miki Fujimoto vn, voc JP
	Makoto Ogawa voc JP
	Reina Tanaka voc *1989 JP
	Eri Kamei voc
	Asami Konno voc JP
	Sayumi Michishige voc JP
	Hitomi Yoshizawa voc *1985 JP
	Ai Kago voc JP
	Ai Takahashi voc JP
	Aika Mitsui JP
	Linlin voc CN
	Ayumi Ishida voc *1997 JP
	Kanon Suzuki voc JP
	Haruka Kudo voc JP
	Haruna Iikubo voc JP
	Mizuki Fukumura voc JP
	Riho Sayashi voc JP
	Masaki Sato voc JP
	Erina Ikuta voc JP
	Sakura Oda voc JP
	Kaede Kaga voc JP
	Aya Ishiguro voc
	Asuka Fukuda voc
	Junjun voc *1988 CN
	Chisaki Morito voc JP