Miu Sakamoto - Topic

1997年、「Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Sister M」名義で歌手デビュー。

音楽活動にとどまらず、ナレーション、執筆、演劇など、表現の幅を広げる。2011年からは、TOKYO FM/JFN38局の全国ネット番組「ディアフレンズ」でパーソナリティを務める。

2006年に「おお雨（おおはた雄一+坂本美雨）」を結成し、全国各地でライブを開催。

また、児童虐待防止を目的とした「こどものいのちはこどものもの」の発起人を務めるほか、動物保護活動をライフワークとする。

“ネコの人”としても知られ、深い猫愛から「ネコ吸い」という言葉を生み出す。

プライベートでは、2015年に長女（通称:なまこちゃん）を出産。

2022年にはデビュー25周年を迎え、著書『ただ、一緒に生きている』（光文社）を刊行。

2024年4月より、NHK Eテレ「日曜美術館」の司会を務める。

Born on May 1, 1980.

Her father is Ryuichi Sakamoto, and her mother is Akiko Yano.

She moved to New York at the age of 9.

In 1997, at the age of 16, she made her debut as a singer under the name of “Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Sister M.” Since then, she started her singing career under her real name.

In addition to being a musician, she is also a writer, narrator and theater actor. She has hosted a nationwide radio program, “Dear Friends” (Tokyo FM, etc.) since 2011 and co-hosted Haruki Murakami’s radio program, “Murakami RADIO.”

She also performs as a group, "OOAME (Yuichi Ohata + Miu Sakamoto)."　She appeared in “The Little Prince-Letter from Saint-Exupery” directed by Kaiji Moriyama in 2020.

She is known as a “cat person” for her animal rights activities for many years and her popular book “How to Suck Cats” and her loving cat, Sabami. She is also one of the founders of "Children's Lives are Children's," a group to reduce child abuse.She gave birth to her first daughter in 2015, and posts daily about the life with her cat and daughter.