User:Cenjamino/Kazuha Nakamura

Kazuha Nakamura (なかむら かずは, Nakamura Kazuha, born August 9, 2003), better known monoymogously as Kazuha, is a Japanese singer based in South Korea. She is currently a member of the South Korean girl group, Le Sserafim.

2003-present: Early life and career beginnings
Kazuha was born on August 9, 2003, in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As the only child to her parents, they moved to Osaka at an early age. At the age of three, she began attending the Yukiyo Hashimoto Ballet School in Takatsuki City, Osaka, at the recommendation of her mother, where she received training in classical ballet and contemporary dance. She has been participating in various competitions since she was 13 years old, including the Kobe National Western Dance Competition.

In 2020, while attending Kansai University High School, she traveled to Europe to study ballet. After training at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow, Russia and the Royal Ballet School in England, she went to the Netherlands National Ballet Academy in the Netherlands to study ballet. After 15 years of practicing ballet, she questioned her pursuit of a professional ballet career. "バレエをずっとしながら、これから‘私の人生でバレエだけをすること’ に対して沢山悩みました. もちろんバレエをしている間その過程が面白く、学ばせてもらう部分も多いということはいいんですよ. それと同時に‘これがほんとに私がやりたい夢なのか？’という思いもずっとありました." After discovering a BLACKPINK music video, and after going to a BLACKPINK concert in Osaka, she participated in HYBE's K-POP audition in 2021. Her audition tape consisted of a choreography video of BTS's Dynamite and ballet video. She was later accepted and chose to join Source Music instead of continuing ballet.

After a 4-month trainee period, she was announced as a member of LE SSERAFIM on April 8, 2022. She debuted on May 2nd.

On June 2nd, she opened her personal Instagram. The number of followers reached 690,000 within the first week of its launch.

Endorsements

On November 6th, 2022 she was appointed as a model for ETUDE. On February 02, 2023, Lador selected Kazuha as their adverisement model.