Megumi Murata

(born March 3, 1981, in Sendai ) is a former member and sub-leader of Melon Kinenbi, an all-girl J-pop group formerly within Hello! Project.

Biography

Murata passed the second Morning Musume & Michiyo Heike Imōtobun Audition, out of about 4,000 total people to audition. The final four (Hitomi Saito, Murata, Masae Ōtani and Ayumi Shibata) were chosen to form a new Hello! Project group, called Melon Kinenbi. Murata was originally leader of the group at the time of its founding in 1999, until leadership was given to Hitomi Saito in September 2002. Murata became the first (and to date only) member of Melon Kinenbi to be included on Hello! Project's official list of graduates, as the only member still with Up-Front. Despite this announcement, however, nothing was heard of regarding Murata's solo career, and the last update regarding her career was on May 5, 2011, through a blog entry.

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