nao first found fame as the founding vocalist of trance-pop duo fripSide, who came to prominence in 2006 when they began producing music for visual novel publisher VisualArt’s. nao left fripSide in 2009 to go solo. Since then, nao has continued to work mostly within video games. Besides maintaining ties with VisualArt’s, she’s become a fixture on releases by publisher 5pb..
nao’s other post-fripSide ventures have included DystopiaGround, a project that ran from 2009 to 2011 in which she performed songs written by several video game composers and musicians, such as Demetori and BLOOD STAIN CHILD’s RYU.