Kanako Ogata

Kanako Ogata (Japanese: 緒方 かな子, Hepburn: Ogata Kanako; born 4 March 1973), previously known as Kanako Nakajō (Japanese: 中條 かな子, Hepburn: Nakajō Kanako), is a Japanese singer and television personality from Naka-ku, Hiroshima. Originally part of the Sakurakko Club, she released a few solo singles and had a career as an actress, gravure idol, and radio personality, before retiring after her marriage to baseball player Koichi Ogata. Afterwards, she became a painter whose work was exhibited nationwide, and she returned as a local talent in her native Hiroshima, being a part of NHK Hiroshima radio's Kin'yō Yūgata; Dōkai no  and Hiroshima Television's Terebiha .