Biography

Nanase Aikawa was born on February 16th, 1975, in Osaka. At the age of 15 she dropped out of high school and soon after began training for a music career. She released her first single, Yumemiru Shoujo Ja Irarenai, on November 8th, 1995. Three more singles followed before the July 3, 1996 release of her first full-length album Red. By the end of 1998 she had released a total of eleven singles and three albums. The next year with the release of her twelfth single Cosmic Love she had drastically changed her image, cutting her long hair short and dying it blonde. In June her first best collection album was released. Three more singles followed that year, and she released another original album in February of 2000, Foxtrot.

The next two singles that Nanase released brought about another change. Midnight Blue and Seven Seas were produced by Tomoyasu Hotei, instead of her previous producer Tetsuro Oda. In January of 2001 two new singles were released simultaneously. This time one of the singles, NO FUTURE, was again produced by Tomoyasu Hotei, but the other, ~dandelion~, saw a return to her original producer Tetsuro Oda. Less than a month later her fifth album Purana was released. This album gave off less of her traditional rebellious rock 'n roll feel, with her image becoming more conventional.

Nanase got married on her 26th birthday, and on September 6th, 2001, her baby boy was born. Motherhood hasn't slowed her down, she is still going strong as the Queen of Rock! -Main-