Tsugunaga Momoko, born March 6, 1992 in Chiba, Japan is a J-pop singer. Her career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the Hello! Project Kids, an all-female adolescent pop group within Hello! Project. Since then, she has continued to sing in that group and has become a part of three smaller groups composed of Hello! Project Kids members, ZYX, Berryz Koubou and Buono!.

Tsugunaga Momoko joined Hello! Project as one of the 15 Hello! Project Kids. She played the lead protagonist in the 2002 Hello! Project movie Koinu Dan no Monogatari. In 2003, she was a member of the one-shot unit ZYX and released two singles with the group before it became inactive.
In 2004, Tsugunaga was one of the eight members selected to form Berryz Koubou, she is one of the group's lead vocalists. As of 2007, she is also part of Buono! along with Natsuyaki Miyabi and Suzuki Airi, and only a year later she managed to become the leader of the group after two competitions between the members. She was a member of Little Gatas and she is now a reserve member for Gatas Brilhantes H.P..

Berryz Koubou held a concert in Saitama Super Arena for first time in 2007 and it's also the first time that Momoko sang a solo. She interpreted Koi wa Hipparidako, which is part of their first album: 1st Chou Berryz.

She graduated from Berryz Koubou on March 3, 2015 in a joint graduation concert with the other members of the group. The same day, she officially became a member of Country Girls as the playing manager.

On June 30, 2017, Tsugunaga graduated from Country Girls and Hello! Project and retired from the entertainment industry to work in early education.

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