Kanako Ogata | |
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緒方 かな子 | |
Born | 4 March 1973 |
Other names | Kanako Nakajō |
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Years active | 1980s–1996 |
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Children | 3 (including Yuna Ogata) |
Kanako Ogata (Japanese: 緒方 かな子, Hepburn: Ogata Kanako, born 4 March 1973), previously known as Kanako Nakajō (Japanese: 中條 かな子, Hepburn: Nakajō Kanako), is a Japanese singer and television personality from Naka-ku, Hiroshima. Originally part of the Sakurakko Club, she released a few solo singles and had a career as an actress, gravure idol, and radio personality, before retiring after her marriage to baseball player Koichi Ogata. Afterwards, she became a painter whose work was exhibited nationwide, and she returned as a local talent in her native Hiroshima, being a part of NHK Hiroshima radio's Kin'yō Yūgata; Dōkai no and Hiroshima Television's Terebiha .
Kanako Ogata, a native of Naka-ku, Hiroshima,[1] was born on 4 March 1973.[2] She was educated at Horikoshi High School.[3]
Her career began when she was seven.[1] She was a member of the Sakurakko Club Sakura-gumi.[3] Debuting under the name Kanako Nakajō,[1] she sang the ending theme song of Sakurakko Club, "Tenshi no Tobira", and Pony Canyon released it as her debut single on 21 June 1991.[4] She sang the ending theme song of the TV Asahi drama Kyosen no Tsukenai Eigo (1992–1993), "Kotoba o Sagashite", and Pony Canyon released it as a single on 18 June 1993.[5]
Outside of music, she also worked as an actress, gravure idol, radio personality.[3][2] She was also known as Queen of the School Festival (学園祭の女王, Gakuensai no Joō).[3] In 1993 or 1994, she took a minor career break when she contracted meningitis.[2]
In 1996, she married Koichi Ogata, at the time an outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp;[3] they had two daughters and a son, including singer and voice actress Yuna Ogata.[6][7] She subsequently took a career hiatus, during which she took up Nihonga painting and oil painting.[2] By 2013, she had produced at least a hundred paintings.[2] In 1998, she made her first appearance at the Nika Art Exhibition .[2] Her self-portrait, "Yoka no Tanoshimi" (余暇の楽しみ), was selected for the 88th Hakujitsu Exhibition in 2012.[8] In December 2013, her first solo exhibition took place at Gallery Miyasaka in Ginza.[2] Another oil painting, "Natsuyasumi" (夏休み), was selected for the 93rd Hakujitsu Exhibition in 2017.[9]
Following her career hiatus, she later became a local talent[2] By 2013, she was part of the NHK Hiroshima radio programme Kin'yō Yūgata; Dōkai no .[2] In April 2017, she become a Tuesday commentator on Hiroshima Television's news programme Terebiha .[9] She appeared as Yumi in the eighth episode of the TBS drama 99.9 Criminal Lawyer , broadcast on 11 March 2018; this was her first appearance on a television drama since 1995.[10]
in her native Hiroshima.In December 2013, Ogata confirmed in an interview with Zakzak that she had developed arrhythmia and therefore underwent cardiac catheterization.[2] In 2016, she got a pet French bulldog whom she named Yūshō (優勝).[11][12]
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Ref. | ||
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JPN | JPN Hot | ||||
"Tenshi no Tobira" |
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"Kizuna" |
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— | — | [13] | |
"Weekday Alice" |
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— | — | [14] | |
"Kotoba o Sagashite" |
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— | — | [5] | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. |