BABYMETAL-Suzuka Nakamoto-First Performance HD

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In 2002, Nakamoto won the Grand Prix in the Image Girl contest for Jewel Drop, a line of toy
cosmetics produced by Bandai, subsequently starring in several
Jewel Drop commercials.

Suzuka Nakamoto ( Nakamoto Suzuka, born December 20, 1997), known by her
stage names Suzuka and Su-metal , is a Japanese musician, singer and model. She is best
known as a member of the kawaii metal band Babymetal. She is represented by the talent
agency Amuse, Inc. and has been a member of three musical groups formed by the company:
Karen Girl's, Sakura Gakuin, and Babymetal.
In 2002, Nakamoto won the Grand Prix in the Image Girl contest for Jewel Drop, a line of toy
cosmetics produced by Bandai, subsequently starring in several Jewel Drop commercials.

In 2006, Nakamoto was admitted to Actor’s School Hiroshima (ASH). She studied with another future
Sakura Gakuin member, Mariri Sugimoto, with whom she had been acquainted before
attending the school.She also had a rivalry with Riho Sayashi, future Morning Musume member and
Babymetal support dancer, as they were considered the school's top two students at the time.

In 2007, she was signed to the talent agency Amuse, Inc. after becoming a runner-up in the
2nd Star Kids Audition held by the company.

In 2008, her agency formed a trio called Karen Girl's,and Suzuka was selected to be in it.
The group was introduced as a little sister of the girl trio Perfume and sang several theme songs
for the anime Zettai Karen Children, disbanding on March 31, 2009, after the anime ended its run.

In April 2010, Nakamoto became a founding member of Sakura Gakuin, an idol group created by her
agency. The group members also formed sub-units called “clubs”, each of which released their own
songs as a unit. Suzuka became a member of the “Heavy Music” club uonbu which released songs
under the name Babymetal, which also included fellow Sakura Gakuin members Yui Mizuno and
Moa Kikuchi.

In the spring of 2013, Nakamoto graduated from junior high school and therefore had to "graduate"
from Sakura Gakuin (which limits girls up to the junior high age). Her graduation concert was held
on March 31 at the Tokyo International Forum. Suzuka now performs with Babymetal, which had
been spun off from Sakura Gakuin following her graduation, under the stage name Su-metal
Babymetal's self-titled debut album was released in February 2014.

Nakamoto ranked ninth place on the Oricon News ranking for “2018 Rankings for Anticipation of
New Adults”, commenting on her "overwhelming singing ability"

Suzuka is the youngest of three sisters.
Her second sister, Himeka Nakamoto, is a former member of the idol group Nogizaka46.
They studied together at the Actor's School Hiroshima (ASH) and sang together in a duo known as
Tween.

Her mother works with gemstones and occasionally gives gemstone accessories to the
Babymetal members as a gift.

Babymetal is a Japanese kawaii metal band. The band consists of Suzuka Nakamoto as "Su-metal"
(Vocal and Dance) and Moa Kikuchi as "Moametal" (Scream and Dance). The band is produced by
Kobametal from the Amuse talent agency. Their vocals are backed by heavy metal instrumentation,
performed by a group of session musicians known as the "Kami Band" at performances.

The band was formed in 2010, with the original lineup of Su-metal (Vocal and Dance), Moametal
(Scream and Dance), and Yui Mizuno as "Yuimetal" (Scream and Dance), with the concept of
creating a fusion of the heavy metal and Japanese idol genres. Originally a sub-unit of the
Japanese idol group Sakura Gakuin, Babymetal became an independent act in 2013,
following Nakamoto's departure from Sakura Gakuin. Babymetal released their eponymous debut
album in
February 2014. Their second album Metal Resistance was released worldwide on April 1, 2016.
Babymetal has also embarked on several tours, with a majority of their tour dates taking place
outside of Asia.

On October 19, 2018, Babymetal announced that Yui Mizuno (Yuimetal) had decided to leave the
band due to poor health, following her absence from live performances since December 2017.
Since her departure, the band has performed with one or more backup dancers at live performances.
In 2019, the band introduced three backup dancers called Avengers who performed in rotation at
each live show to form a trio with Moametal and Su-metal.