HITOMI YOSHIZAWA

保田圭

 

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Yoshizawa was selected from the third round of Morning Musume auditions on ASAYAN to join Morning Musume as a fourth generation member in 2000, along with Ishikawa Rika, Kago Ai, and Tsuji Nozomi. She made her debut on the single "Happy Summer Wedding," and first appeared on the fourth studio album, 4th Ikimasshoi!.

In July 2000, she replaced Ichii Sayaka in Petitmoni and went on to release three singles and one album with the group. Later, when the line-up was reshuffled with Ogawa Makoto and Ayaka replacing Goto Maki and Yasuda Kei, Yoshizawa became the new leader. However, unlike the other newly shuffled Tanpopo and Minimoni, the new line-up of Petitmoni never released a single. They had one original song, "WOW WOW WOW," but it was only released on the Pucchi Best 4 album and performed during concerts.

She was given the main vocals on Morning Musume's 13th single, "Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~," which established her boyish character and gave a huge boost to her popularity.

Yoshizawa was placed in Morning Musume Sakura Gumi in January 2003 and released two singles as a part of the group before it went inactive.

She was an original member of the fustal team Gatas Brilhantes H.P. when it was formed in September 2003, and is currently the captain. (Fustal is called "indoor soccer" in the USA and "indoor football" in most of the rest of the English-speaking world.)

With Iida Kaori's graduation in January 2005, Yoshizawa became the subleader to Yaguchi Mari's leader position. However, when Yaguchi abruptly resigned from the group in April, Yoshizawa was bumped up to the leader position, backed up by Fujimoto Miki as subleader.

In April 2006, she was named an official supporter of the Japanese women's soccer league, Nadeshiko League.