Nanase Aikawa

At the age of 20 she released her first single, Yume Miru Shoujo ja Irarenai on November 8, 1995.

That album won her an invitation to perform on Kōhaku Uta Gassen, a New Year's Eve singing contest between male and female teams of popular singers sponsored by NHK (one of Japan's television networks).

Some music-journalists said that a large part of her fan base, during the 1990s, was the Bōsōzoku (motorcycle gang) youthes especially those in the western areas of Japan.

In 2001, she also released a 'mini-album' (sometime between a full album and a single) with only 7 tracks called the Last Quarter of uncharacteristically soft ballad-style music, recorded during her later months of pregnancy.

This album focused more on ballads and soft music than her well-known rock edge.

Her first music release while working on this album is as part of a limited unit called "Crimson-FANG" for the soundtrack of Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World, having performed on the soundtrack on Kamen Rider Blade in 2004.

and with whom she toured for the album: Aikawa Nanase was married on her twenty-sixth birthday, February 16, 2001 and their first child, a boy, was born on September 6, 2001.

Aikawa is a good friend (as stated in an interview) of Yumi Yoshimura from Puffy.