At AFA08, May’n attracted a crowd of over 8,000 people all over South-east Asia, including Japan, delivering an unforgettable experience for all. Since then, she has moved further in her career and embarked on a solo concert tour in January 2009 and July-August 2009 with a total of 14 sell-out concerts.

Her first solo concert at Nippon Budokan has just been announced and will take place on January 24th 2010. Her work as the singing voice of Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier has been given another dimension: the theatrical version will appear on the silver screen on November 21st. May’n is surely on her way to become a rising star in Japan.

19-year-old May’n was born on October 21st, 1989. At the age of 13, she took part in the “Horipro – Talent Scout Caravan – Love Music – Audition”, which was a prominent vocal audition  (with some 35,000 applicants), and won it by demonstrating her stunning singing skills.

May’n is her stage name, adapted from her given name of May Nakabayashi; it implies her wish to keep on singing, which would become the main themes in everyone’s hearts.

In 2008, May’n performed as the singing voice of Sheryl Nome, the Diva of the Galaxy in the TV animation series “Macross Frontier”.  In the same year, she released two singles that hit the Japanese Oricon weekly charts at number 3 in their debut weeks.  May’n catapulted to fame since then.

“May’n Street”, a long-awaited mini album, was released on January 21st, 2009.  The album included “Blue” and “Iya, Iya”, both songs’ lyrics being written by May’n herself. The album also received large numbers of pre-orders. The demand for it has not gone down since being released, and got up to 2nd place in the Oricon weekly charts.