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Mao Denda

Japanese singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3277340 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mao Denda (傳田 真央, Denda Mao; born March 29, 1980), also known as Mao/d (stylized MAO/d), is a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 2018 she announced that she was suspending her musical activities. She returned to the music industry in 2020 with the single "Plastic Eden".

Discography

Singles

"Mimimoto ni Iru yo...

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mao Denda” as japanese singer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Denda, Japanese and singer.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-03-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Denda, Japanese and singer providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mao Denda”, the useful work is to connect “japanese singer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3277340. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2018 and 2020.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mao Denda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.