Noria

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Noria was chosen to become a member of the J-Pop Girl band 'BeForU' through auditions held by Konami in 2000. She was one of the four winners, the others being: Riyu Kosaka, Yoma Komatsu and Shiyuna Maehara. She debuted with BeForU in Dance Dance Revolution 5th mix with their song 'DIVE'. Noria herself, however, did not recieve a solo song until DDR EXTREME, where she sang in two songs, TEARS (under the alias EK) and Love2シュガー→. Noria also had solo songs in beatmania IIDX: Glorious Days, Silvia Drive, Baby Love, Recollection and Melody Life.
On October 18th, 2006, Noria released her first single under the avex entertainment label, LOVE②くっらち.
Noria continued to work with BeForU until December 30th, 2007, when she 'graduated' from the band to pursue a solo career.
Noria later re-appeared on the music by announcing she was going to be writing the opening and ending themes for the anime うちの３姉妹 (Uchi no san shimai / My 3 Sisters).
After writing the songs for うちの３姉妹 they were released on a single. Next, Noria announced she would be writing the ending theme of the anime 07 GHOST called Hitomi no Kotae. Hitomi no Kotae was Noria's biggest success yet, reaching number 30 in the Oricon charts.