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| Ai Takahashi (‚‹´ˆ¤, Takahashi Ai?) is a Japanese pop singer associated with Hello! Project, best known as a member of Morning Musume and its most popular subgroup, MiniMoni. She is considered to have one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in the group. Ai Takahashi joined Morning Musume in 2001 as part of the groupfs 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 Ikimashoi!. Her first appearance on a Hello! Project Summer Shuffle release was on the 2002 single "Shiawase Beam! Suki Suki Beam!" under the group name Happy 7.In 2003, she was tapped to replace Mari Yaguchi in the Morning Musume spinoff group MiniMoni, first appearing in the groupfs movie MiniMoni Ja Movie: Okashina Daibouken and its accompanying soundtrack. Her best-known nickname amongst non-Japanese fans, "Takitty", derived from the catsuit (complete with tail) that she wears in the movie.That same year, she was part of the Morning Musume splinter group Morning Musume Sakuragumi, which performed mainly slower numbers on the groupfs two EPs, "Hare Ame Nochi Suki" and "Sakura Mankai", and the shuffle group 7AIR, an R&B-inspired septet.Takahashifs vocals became more prominent on the second and final MiniMoni album, MiniMoni Songs 2 (2004), as well as on Morning Musumefs 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 Hamasakifs duet "Love ~since 1999~" on his solo album TAKE1.In 2005, Morning Musumefs 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.Takahashi is also part of the new Hello! Project kickball team, Metro Rabbits H.P., and is the captain of the team. | |||||||||||||
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