Megumi Nakajima

Megumi Nakajima (中島 愛) is a Japanese voice actress and singer, who is affiliated with Stay Luck.

Nakajima was born in Ibaraki Prefecture on June 5, 1989, to a Filipina mother and a Japanese father.

She grew up in a family fond of music; her father had been a drummer in a band.

These family influences would later be cited as among the reasons she would decide to pursue a career as a singer.

In 2003, she joined the talent agency Stardust Promotion after passing their audition.

In 2003, Nakajima participated in an audition held by the talent agency Stardust Promotion.

She passed it and subsequently signed with the agency.

Despite this, she did not make a music debut, instead training while waiting for her opportunity.

As she had yet to make her debut, she was starting to "become desperate" to do anything in entertainment, and she even considered ceasing her pursuit of a singing career.

While in her third year of high school, she learned of an audition held by the music company Victor Entertainment.

The winner would then be cast in the upcoming anime series Macross Frontier.

At the time she had not yet decided what type of artist she wanted to be, but because she believed that it was her chance, she went ahead and auditioned.

She ended up being the audition's winner, which would lead to her being cast as the speaking and singing voice of the character Ranka Lee.

Later, in 2007, she debuted as a voice actress and singer after passing an audition held by the music company Victor Entertainment; she was then cast as the character Ranka Lee in the 2008 anime series Macross Frontier.

Nakajima made her debut performance as a professional artist at the "Macross 25th Anniversary Concert" on April 18, 2007, as she had been cast as the character Ranka Lee.

Her first vocal recordings appeared in the compilation album Macross Frontier O.S.T.1 Nyan FRO. on June 4, 2008.

She made her music debut on June 25, 2008, with the single "Seikan Hikō" (星間飛行).

Her first major live performance was the "Super Dimension Super Live" (超時空スーパーライブ) concert held on July 27, 2008.

Her first solo single "Tenshi ni Naritai" was released in 2009, which was followed by her first solo album I Love You in 2010.

Apart from Ranka, Nakajima is also known for her roles as Kaede Sakura in Kämpfer, Lyra in Fairy Tail, Lyra and Meloetta in Pokémon, Yuzuki Eba in A Town Where You Live, Megumi Aino/Cure Lovely in HappinessCharge PreCure!, and Turi in Ascendance of a Bookworm.

Her songs have been featured in series such as Kämpfer, Tamayura, Kotoura-san, Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne, and Ascendance of a Bookworm.

She is also the voice provider of the Vocaloid software Megpoid.

For her performance of "Seikan Hikō", she won the award for Best Musical Performance in the third Seiyu Awards held on March 7, 2009.

Nakajima's first non-Macross single, "Tenshi ni Naritai" (天使になりたい) was released on January 28, 2009; the single peaked at number 13 on Oricon's weekly charts and charted for five weeks.

This was followed by the release of her second single "Nostalgia" on March 11, 2009; the title song was used as the theme song to the drama series ''Daisuki!

Itsuitsugo''.

She then became the vocal provider of the Vocaloid program Megpoid, which went on sale on June 6, 2009.

Her next single "Jellyfish no Kokuhaku" (ジェリーフィッシュの告白) was released on December 9, 2009; the title song was used as the first ending theme to the anime series Kobato.

She released her first album I Love You on June 9, 2010.

She then appeared at Anime Expo in Los Angeles in July of that year.

Nakajima's next single "Melody" was released on November 24, 2010; the songs included in the single were used in the original video animation Tamayura.

She then performed the song "If", which was used as an insert song in the anime series Moshidora.

This was followed by the release of the single "Kamisama no Itazura" (神様のいたずら) on October 26, 2011; the title song is used as the ending theme to the anime series Tamayura: Hitotose.

Her next single, "Try Unite!/Hello!"

was released on February 2, 2012; "Try Unite" was used as the opening theme to the anime series Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne. Her second album Be With You went on sale on March 3, 2012.

On August 1, 2012, Nakajima released the single "Marble/Wasurenai yo."

In 2013, she announced an indefinite hiatus from singing to focus on her acting career; she returned to singing in 2017 with the single "Watashi no Sekai", the title song being used as the ending theme to the anime series Fuuka.

(マーブル/忘れないよ.); "Marble" was used as the opening theme to the second season of Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne. In 2013, she released two singles: "Sonna Koto Ura no Mata Urabanashi Desho?"

(そんなこと裏のまた裏話でしょ?) on January 23, and "Arigatō" (ありがとう) on August 7.

"Sonna Koto Ura no Mata Urabanashi Desho?"