Misako Uno

Misako Uno
Misako Uno and Awoo doll 'UNO' at the Asian Music Festival with UNICEF in 2011.
Native name	宇野 実彩子
Born	(1986-07-16) July 16, 1986 (age 31) Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
Other names	Uno-chan ( 宇野ちゃん) Uno Misako (AAA) UNO48 Akane (茜) or Akane Sarasa (茜 さらさ)
Education	Shirayuri Women's University
Occupation	middle manager, musician, singer, health consultant, fashion designer, producer
Years active	1994–present
Employer	Avex Group
Organization	YMCA and Japan Vegetarian Society
Agent	Avex Entertainment (2005–2009) Avex Management (2009–)
Known for	network magazine Television radio
Notable work	The Grudge 2
Style	Popular, musical theatre, new-age music
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	39 kg (86 lb)
Website	uno uno 0716
Musical career
Also known as	Uno Misako (宇野実彩子) (AAA) Yabuki Akane (矢吹あかね)
Genres	Punk rock jazz reggae j-pop
Occupation(s)	Vocalist songwriter
Instruments	singing rapping
Years active	2005–present
Labels	avex trax Delicious Deli Records
Associated acts	AAA Chiaki Ito Takahiro Nishijima Mitsuhiro Hidaka AAA girls
Stage career Occupation dancer and choreographer Years active 2005–present Dances Locking jazz folk ballet
Signature

Misako Uno (宇野実彩子, Uno Misako, born July 16, 1986) is a Japanese Tarento, artist, actress, essayist and talent agent best known as a female lead vocalist and dancer of the male and female performing arts group AAA. She is also the Middle manager of Avex Group, advertising manager of SHUFU TO SEIKATSU SHA (主婦と生活社) and public fasting Consultant of Japan Enzyme Hydrogen Medical Beauty Society (日本酵素・水素医療美容学会). Her first film was in the 2006 Hollywood horror, The Grudge 2.

Uno was born into a wealthy family. Her father was a copywriter and her mother was a social worker. Inspired by London's West End's Cats, who performed in stage, Uno, from a young age, had aspirations of becoming a stage artists.

Her childhood were ashamed and unsure; she described her primary school years as "dark times", as she was not good at running and jumping. Afflicted with a frail body and slow response, while still young her determined to make herself regain confidence.

Her fifteen years time is spent at 'Shirayuri gakuen' (白百合学園). At the age of eight, she began to write essays and dance at this school. At the age of eleven, she and two other students left Japan, represent Ministry of Education to go the Germany's International Summer Camp.

But she could not speak with other students, for neither knew the other's language. She decided to study English hard and resolved on going abroad to study. After studying to London, in grade 8 summer vacation.

During her first year of high school Uno auditioned in Avex Group's "Avex Audition 2002", where she came in second out of Tens of thousands of participants. She was then signed onto the 'Avex Artist Academy'. A year later, she set up the dance club of Shirayuri Gakuen. This club is the predecessor of AAA.