Chelsea Ching

Chelsea Ching is the former leader of the Hello!Project group Coconuts Musume. She was 16 when she joined.

Biography
Chelsea was one of five girls chosen to form the group Coconuts Musume. Along with the other members, she flew to Japan and began recording with the group. Her outgoing and lively personality along with her strong vocals made her the leader of Coconuts Musume. She recorded five songs with them; Halation Summer, Summer Night Town (English Version), Dance &amp; Chance, Dance &amp; Chance (English Ver.) and Zurui Onna. After Coconuts Musume's second single, she decided to go back to Hawai'i to finish High School. She was quoted as saying "School is really important too me. . . grades and education (are) probably the most important thing to me. And so... I don't know... like, school starts as soon as I get back so I'm kind of getting ready to work really hard."[1] After she left, Ayaka took over the role of the leader in Coconuts Musume.

Upon arriving home Chelsea continued her acting/modeling career. She can be seen in the Hoku video "How Do I Feel?". She also did a number of print ads, runway modeling and television appearances.