和田

Nickname(s): DAWA, Ayacho

Place of Birth: Gunma, Japan

Blood type: A

Wada Ayaka is a Japanese pop singer signed to Hello! Project. She joined the project in 2004 as a member of Hello! Pro Egg and is currently a member of S/mileage and was a former member of Shugo Chara Egg!.

Wada joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Pro Egg in June 2004 when she passed the auditions alongside thirty-two other girls. The aim of the group was to prepare the young girls for their debut into the world of entertainment, as such Wada received free dance and vocal training alongside the other Eggs.

Wada continued her training and appeared at numerous Hello! Project concerts as a backing dancer, including the Country Musume concert Country Musume Live 2006: Shibuya des Date.

In November 2007, Wada received a part in the musical Reverse! Watashi no karada doko desu ka?. She also took part in a television show, Chao.TV (starting 2 September 2007).

Wada was selected to be one of the four members for a new Hello! Pro Egg unit alongside Maeda Yuuka, Fukuda Kanon, and Saho Akari. The group was called Shugo Chara Egg! and was formed to record the opening songs for the anime that Buono! sings for, Shugo Chara!. The group have released three singles to date.

In 2009 Wada was selected to be one of the four members to be in the new Hello! Pro Egg unit S/mileage Along with Yuuka Maeda, Kanon Fukuda, and Ogawa Saki. At this time she also left Shugo Chara Egg! in order to focus on S/mileage. As of July 2009 she was also put into ZYX-α.

(Source: AniDB)