The singer Mizuki Nana is celebrating her 10 year anniversary of being a singer next year and instead of releasing a album or special single, she is publishing her first autobiography, which is called Shin’ai.

The book starts from her childhood and goes through her life, growing up in Ehime and her struggle to get into the entertainment business. She speaks about how her father trained her to sing Enka songs since she was a child, which led to her success of winning a karaoke contest.

Nana speaks of her first entertainment company, and how her financial situation was not a good one. This book shows the hardships she went through, it’s almost a book of confessions of her life over the years. The book is actually the title of her 19th single that was released on the 21st January 2009 and reached number 1 on the Oricon charts.

The autobiography will be released on Nana’s 31st birthday which is on January 21st.

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