Natsumi Kon (昆 夏美, Kon Natsumi, born 28 June 1991) is a Japanese musical actress and singer.
Born from Hachiōji, Tokyo, she graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Faculty of Music Musical Course.[1] She is represented with Toho Entertainment. While studying at the university, she debuted professionally as Juliette of the musical Roméo et Juliette, and later appeared to her topical work such as the musicals Hamlet, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and so on, and is called the "new-generation diva of the musical world".[2] She also debuted as a singer with "Watashi wa Sōzō suru".
Biography, personal life
She liked to sing from a young age, and also to play and dance, and from 2003 to 2006 she belonged to the Children's Theatre Ōkina Yume and acted primarily in leading roles.[3] She was determined to aim for a musical actress when she was in the third grade of junior high school and went to Senzoku Gakuen High School's music department.[4] In 2009, when was on third grade high school, she was selected as the role of the girl Anne in the music play Anne of Green Gables sponsored by the DPI-NGO UN Classical Live Association.[5]
In 2010, she studied at the Senzoku Gakuen High School Music School from the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Faculty of Music Musical Course.[1] She passed the audition of Toho Entertainment in 2011 while enrolled in her second year of college, and in the heroine audition of the musical Roméo et Juliette which received in less than a month after entering the office, she was selected as Juliette from among many candidates,[a] which made her major work pro debut.[6] Her first starring[b] in the stage Yūdoku Shōnen that became her first straight play in the same year.[7] After that she also appeared in the topic's work by acting as the heroine Ophelia of the musical Hamlet and roles of Éponine and Fantine of the musical Les Misérables, and attracted attention as the "new-generation diva of the musical world" from her singing ability.[2]
Meanwhile, in 2012, she made her first television drama appearance as Clara in TV Asahi's Murder at Mt. Fuji, and in 2013 she debuted as a singer with the opening theme "Watashi wa Sōzō suru" in the television anime Majestic Prince.
When she graduated from the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Faculty of Music Musical Course in 2014,[1] she played in the musicals The Addams Family as Wednesday Addams and Miss Saigon as Kim.[c] In addition, she was in charge of opening theme "Niji no kakera" of the TV anime One Week Friends as a singer.[8]
In October 2016, her performance in the Imperial Theater of the musical Miss Saigon which was scheduled to appear was cancelled for the treatment of the nodule of her vocal folds,[9][10] after surgery and rehabilitation, she returned from the first day of her Nagoya performance on 19 January 2017.[11]
