Ayaka Nishiwaki
| Ayaka Nishiwaki 西脇 綾香 |
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Nishiwaki (center) at the 2014 KKBOX Music Awards
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15 February 1989 Hiroshima, Japan |
| Other names | A~chan |
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| Years active | 2001–present |
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| Website | Perfume Official Website |
Ayaka Nishiwaki (西脇 綾香 Nishiwaki Ayaka), nicknamed A~chan (あ～ちゃん, stylized as a-chan), is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the Japanese electropop group Perfume.
Nishiwaki was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, where she attended Actor’s School Hiroshima with friends and current Perfume members Yuka Kashino and Ayano Ōmoto.
She formed Perfume in 2000 with Kashino and former member Yūka Kawashima, who left shortly after to focus on her schoolwork. After discussing the issue with her mother, who believed that a three-piece group had more stage presence than a duo, Nishiwaki asked Ōmoto to join the group.
Her younger sister Sayaka is a member of the group "9nine".
In March 2011 Nishiwaki earn a Major degree in Economics on Asia University.
On 2008 A-chan starred in the movie "Kanata Kara no Tegami", the first feature work made at the completion of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, winner of Chairman Special Encouragement Prize at 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival.
On April 18, 2008 Perfume made a special guest appearance performing "Ceramic Girl" at the ending of the drama "Sumire ♡ 16 sai!!".
On March 23, 2012 Perfume made a special guest appearance performing "Baby Cruising Love" in the movie "Moteki".
On 2014 A-chan, along with Haruichi Shindo, co-wrote the song "Sore o Tsuyosa to Yobitai" (それを強さと呼びたい, "I Want to Call That Strength"), theme of the Amuse Fes 2014 BB in Tsumagoi event, performed by 13 artists: Perfume, Porno Graffitti, Flumpool, Begin, Skoop On Somebody, Yu Takahashi, Weaver, Mihiro, Monobright, Rihwa, Haku, Sakura Fujiwara & Cross Gene).
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