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{{Short description|Japanese pop singer and TV talent}}
{{distinguish|Sayaka Ishii}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Sayaka Ichii<br>市井 紗耶香
| alias           = Sayarin, Kā-san
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1983|12|31}}
| death_date      =
| origin          = [[Funabashi, Chiba|Funabashi]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], Japan
| genre           = [[Japanese pop]]
| occupation      = {{flatlist|
* [[Singing|Singer]]
* [[Actor|Actress]]
* [[Dance]]r}}
| years_active    = 1998–present
| label           = Up-Front Agency (May 1998&ndash;November 2003)<br>Ranves (August 2009&ndash;present)
| associated_acts = [[Morning Musume]], [[Cubic-Cross]], [[Petitmoni]], [[H!P Summer Shuffles#Aoiro 7|Aoiro 7]], [[OFR48]]
| website         = [http://www.ranves.com/artist/sayaka_ichii.html Sayaka Ichii - Ranves]
}}

{{nihongo|'''Sayaka Ichii'''|市井 紗耶香|''Ichii Sayaka''|extra=born December 31, 1983 in [[Funabashi, Chiba|Funabashi]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], Japan}} is a Japanese pop singer and former member for Japanese girl group [[Morning Musume]]. She is now a TV talent and planning to debut as an actress.

==History==
===Morning Musume and Hello Project===
Joined the girl group [[Morning Musume]] in 1998. She, along with [[Mari Yaguchi]] and [[Kei Yasuda]], formed the second generation of members. While in Morning Musume, Sayaka Ichii was put into the spin-off group, [[Petitmoni]] with [[Maki Goto]] and [[Kei Yasuda]] . Ichii was also part of the [[Hello Project! Summer Shuffles]] 2000 group Aoiro 7. She also recorded a folk song album with [[Yuko Nakazawa]].
She left Morning Musume in May to continue her education.

===After Morning Musume===
Sayaka Ichii graduated from Morning Musume and [[Hello! Project]] after the single "[[Happy Summer Wedding]]" in 2000. A year after she left, she formed the group ''Ichii Sayaka in Cubic-Cross'', trio with Taisei (keyboardist from [[Sharan Q]]), and wrote two of their songs. In 2003, Cubic-Cross disbanded, and after a solo single.

She retired from the music business at the end of the year.
In February, she joined Ranves Management agency.on August 30, she returned to TV in a TBS show called Sunday Japan.

She also as a politician by the member of [[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan]], she was a [[List of members of the Diet of Japan|member of House of Councillors of Japan]] on 26 April 2024, but she only served 93 minutes and resigned on the same day.<ref>[https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASS4V11DTS4VUTFK006M.html 参院が市井紗耶香氏の議員辞職許可　在職わずか93分で戦後最短] - 朝日新聞デジタル 26 April 2024</ref>

===Personal life===
Ichii announced in 2004 that she was pregnant and was to marry the group's guitarist, Naoki Yoshizawa. The couple had two daughters but divorced in 2011. Ichii later remarried and gave birth to a son. Her fourth baby was born in 2017.

== Discography and releases ==
===Albums ===
;Duet with Yuko Nakazawa
* ''Folk Songs'' (November 29, 2001)

;Ichii Sayaka in Cubic-Cross
* ''C:BOX'' (November 20, 2002)

=== Singles ===
;Sayaka Ichii in Cubic-Cross
* Jinsei Ga Mou Hajimatteru (April 24, 2002)
* Shitsuren Love Song (July 17, 2002)
* Todoke! Koi no Telepathy (November 9, 2002)
* Zutto Zutto (May 1, 2003)

;Sayaka Ichii
* 4U ~Hitasura~ (September 3, 2003)

===DVD===
* Folk Days (February 28, 2002)

=== Photobooks ===
* Self (February 10, 2002)


== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081218170705/http://www.up-front-works.jp/discography/piccolotown/07/list.html Up-Front Works Official Discography Entry] (Japanese)
* [http://ameblo.jp/ichii-sayaka Sayaka Ichii's Blog] (Japanese)

{{Morning Musume}}
{{Petitmoni}}

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[[Category:1983 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese singers]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese women singers]]
[[Category:21st-century Japanese singers]]
[[Category:21st-century Japanese women singers]]
[[Category:Morning Musume members]]
[[Category:Petitmoni members]]
[[Category:Singers from Funabashi]]
[[Category:Japanese women pop singers]]
[[Category:Japanese child singers]]
[[Category:Japanese female idols]]
[[Category:Japanese female models]]


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