Momo Hirai (平井 もも Hirai Momo), known mostly as Momo (Hangul: 모모), was born on November 9, 1996 in Kyōtanabe, Kyoto, Japan. She is the main dancer of Twice..
Momo started dancing at a very young age and decided to become a singer because of Amuro Namie and got into K-pop after watching Rain and Lee Hyori.
She has appeared in GOT7's "Stop Stop It" MV, Junho's "Feel" (Japanese) MV, miss A's "Only You" MV, Wooyoung's "Rose" (Japanese) MV, Heechul's and Min Kyung Hoon's "Sweet Dream" MV. In 2015, Momo became a contestant on the reality girl group survival show, Sixteen. Originally, eliminated in the sixth episode of the series, she was brought back by JYP in the show's finale, due to him believing that her skills in dance and performance would complete his girl group, which was named Twice.