Michiyo Heike
| Michiyo Heike 平家 みちよ |
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| Also known as | Michiyo |
| Born | 平家充代 (Heike Michiyo) April 6, 1979 |
| Origin | Nabari, Mie, Japan |
| Genres | Japanese pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1997 – |
| Labels | Warner Music Japan |
| Associated acts | Sharam Q, Morning Musume, Kiiro 5, 7-nin Matsuri, Sexy 8 |
| Website | www |
Michiyo Heike (平家 みちよ Heike Michiyo?), (born 平家 充代 (same reading) on April 6, 1979, married name unknown) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and singer from Nabari, Mie and raised in Osaka. She first become known after her appearance on the Japanese talent show Asayan in the late 1990s, becoming the first member of the future "Hello! Project". Heike currently goes by the mononym Michiyo.
Heike applied ASAYAN Sharam Q-Produced Female Rock Vocalist Audition (ASAYAN シャ乱Qブロデュース 女性ロックヴォーカリスト オーディション Asayan sharan kyū purodūsu josei rokku vōkarisuto ōdishon?) while attending Mie Prefectural Nabari Nishi Senior High School as a junior. The audition for their first singer produced by Sharam Q was held from April through August 1997, by a former Japanese talent show Asayan on the TV Tokyo network, which was later broadcast. Out of around 9,900 applicants, she was eventually chosen as the winner of the audition by Sharm Q under the initiative of their leader Hatake. Michiyo, however, was "sealed" or seclude herself from media for training until her debut under the direction of Tsunku of Sharam Q. During this two-month seclusion time, Tsunku gave a chance to five of 10 runners up to begin their own group, named as Morning Musume. After all, while Tsunku had been producing the repechage team, Hatake had been producing Heike. Her stage name was determined as Michyo Heike (平家みちよ?) changing the Chinese characters for her first name into hiragana in October 1997.
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