中澤裕子

Yuko Nakazawa (中澤裕子 in Japanese; born June 19, 1973, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese pop singer and actress, best known as a founding member of the all-female supergroup

Yuko Nakazawa (中澤裕子 in Japanese; born June 19, 1973, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese pop singer and actress, best known as a founding member of the all-female supergroup Morning Musume. Currently, she is a solo artist as well as one of the hosts of the Japanese TV show Hello! Morning.

Yuko was one of five runner-ups in a 1997 talent contest for a new Japanese rock idol. After the contest, musician and producer Tsunku offered Yuuko and the 4 other runner-ups (Natsumi Abe, Kaori Iida, Aya Ishiguro, and Asuka Fukuda) the chance to be taken under his wing on one condition: that they sell 50,000 CDs of their song "Ai no Tane" in 5 days. The quintet accomplished that task in 4 and, thus, the birth of Morning Musume in 1997 (and their first official single "Morning Coffee" released in 1998). The group has since been increasingly popular and is infamous for its fluctuation of memberships, with members "graduating" and joining frequently.