Ai Takahashi
(born September 14, 1986) is a Japanese pop singer
associated with Hello! Project, best known as the leader
of Morning Musume and member of its most popular
subgroup, Mini Moni.
Biography: Ai Takahashi joined Morning Musume in
2001 as part of the group's fifth generation, along with
Makoto Ogawa, Asami Konno, and Risa Niigaki. Her debut
appearance with the group was on their single
"Mr.Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~", and her first
appearance on a Morning Musume full-length release was
their fourth studio album, the appropriately named 4th
Ikimasshoi!. Her first appearance within a Hello!
Project shuffle unit release was on the 2002 single
"Shiawase Beam! Suki Suki Beam!" under the
group name Happy 7.
In 2003, Takahashi replaced Mari Yaguchi in the Morning
Musume spinoff group Mini Moni, first appearing in the
group's movie Mini Moni Ja Movie: Okashina Daibouken and
its accompanying soundtrack. Her best-known nickname
amongst non-Japanese fans, "Takitty", was
derived from the cat suit (complete with tail) which she
wears in the movie.
Later in 2003, she was part of the Morning Musume
splinter group Morning Musume Sakuragumi, which
performed mainly slower numbers on the group's two EPs,
"Hare Ame Nochi Suki" and "Sakura
Mankai", and the shuffle group 7Air, an
R&B-inspired septet.
Takahashi's vocals became more prominent on the second
and final Mini Moni album, Minimoni Songs 2 (2004), as
well as on Morning Musume's singles from their Spring
2004 release "Roman ~My Dear Boy~" onward. She
also had a duet with Tsunku on the cover version of
Tsunku and Ayumi Hamasaki's duet "Love ~since
1999~" on his solo album Take1.
In 2005, Morning Musume's first single release of the
year, "The Manpower!!!", featured Takahashi in
a prominent co-lead-vocal role, a role she has retained
on subsequent singles since. In the summer of that year,
she became part of the 2005 shuffle Group Elegies.
In 2006, Takahashi played the lead role, Sapphire, in
the musical "Ribbon no Kishi The Musical"
which was a collaboration work of Takarazuka Revue (a
famous Japanese all-female musical group) and Hello!
Project. The musical was based on Tezuka Osamu's manga
and also starred v-u-den, Nozomi Tsuji, Aya Matsuura,
and Natsumi Abe, as well as Marcia and Kaoru Ebira of
the Takarazuka Revue. Soon thereafter, Takahashi
released her first and only solo single to-date,
"Yume Kara Samete".
Following then-leader Hitomi Yoshizawa's graduation from
Morning Musume on May 6, 2007, the current sub-leader,
Miki Fujimoto ascended to the leader position, with
Takahashi becoming the new sub-leader of the group.
However, on June 1, 2007, after Fujimoto's resignation,
Takahashi took over as the new leader.
Takahashi is also captain of the Hello! Project kickball
team, Metro Rabbits H.P..
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