Person: Mizuki Nana

Mizuki Nana (real name: Kondou Nana, 近藤こんどう奈々なな), born January 21, 1980 in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, is a songstress and voice actress (seiyuu).

She began to train enka when she was five years old. In 1993, she released Compact Cassette single Tsugazakura as Kondou Nana. However, she eventually became a popular anime song singer.

Her debut single as Mizuki Nana, Omoi, was released on December 6, 2000. Her 2004 song Innocent Starter became her first Top 10 single and her 2005 single Eternal Blaze reached #2 position on Japanese Oricon weekly single charts. She won the "Best Musical Performance" award by her song Justice to Believe in the first Seiyuu Awards in 2007. Her 7th album Ultimate Diamond made her the first seiyuu to reach the #1 position during the week of June 15, 2009 in the Oricon weekly album charts since its creation in 1968. Ultimate Diamond sold over 74,000 copies in the first week, outselling the popular hip-hop band, Black Eyed Peas' album, The E.N.D., by over 20,000 copies in Japan. Another similar record was set during the week of January 25, 2010, as her 21st single, Phantom Minds, debuted at the #1 position on Oricon weekly single charts.

Many of the characters whom she has voiced were initially very shy/soft-spoken (however, after interactions with other people, they gradually opened up (e.g. Fate Testarossa, Riri Hamilton, Nyamo, Hyuuga Hinata, and Wrath), six of her characters have romantic feelings for the main characters (e.g. Oboro from Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou, Hyuuga Hinata from Naruto, Collet Brunel from Tales of Symphonia, Tamao Tamamura from Shaman King and Akashiya Moka from Rosario to Vampire), some of her characters craved maternal attention (e.g. Fate Testarossa from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha and it's sequels A's and StrikerS, Wrath and Maria), and she was also part of the seiyuu quartet Prits, alongside Kobayashi Yumiko, Kuwatani Natsuko and Mochizuki Hisayo (all four voiced characters in the anime Sister Princess). She also voices Microsoft's Japanese Windows 7 official "OS-tan" mascot, Madobe Nanami. The mascot's name uses some wordplay on Mizuki's own name as well as the operating system ("Nana" = "seven").

On November 23, 2009, NHK announced that Mizuki would take part in the 60th NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen of New Year's Eve. It was Mizuki's first time appearing on the show and the first time a seiyuu was invited to this event since its existence. Nana chose her song Shin'ai for her performance. As of New Years Eve 2012, Mizuki has appeared on the show for four consecutive years.

In the middle of February 2010 - Nana Mizuki became her hometown (Niihama, Ehime)'s First Tourism Ambassador. The news was broadcasted during her Live Academy 2010.