, better known simply as
Miz, is a
Japanese pop/rock singer and actress. Though most of her music is released in Japan, she does her work primarily from
Gotland in
Sweden, mainly doing promotional videos, photo shoots and recording there. She originally debuted in 1999 under
Universal Music Japan using her real name,
Watanabe Mizuki, releasing two singles. In 2003, she began working with the Swedish producer Tord Backstrom and debuted under
Victor Entertainment with the pseudonym
Miz in 2004. That same year, she released an English album in Sweden, with the lead single "Waiting" reaching #8 on the Hitlistan Swedish singles chart. In 2007, Watanabe returned to Universal Music Japan, changed her stage name to Mizrock, and released her first mini-album
Good bye, yesterday and three singles. However, in 2009 she announced on her official blog that she had changed her stage name back to Miz. Her biggest hits in Japan are "New Day" and "In The Sky", the theme song for the Square Enix role-playing video game
Grandia III.