Hello!Project
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Hello! Project is a touring group of artists all produced by Tsunku. Hello!Project is composed of Morning Musume, ex-Morning Musume members (Yuko Nakazawa, Abe Natsumi, Kaori Iida, Maki Goto, Kei Yasuda, Mari Yaguchi, Rika Ishikawa, Tsuji Nozomi, Ai Kago). it is also composed of subgroups such as Country Musume as of 2006 (a group based on girls from Hokkaido), Coconuts Musume (a group, now a solo artist name Ayaka, from Hawaii), Berryz Koubou and C-ute (both young girls' groups), Hello!Project Eggs (auditionees that are used to make sgroups and developing artists), Viyuuden (composed of Rika Ishikawa, and two other young women--Erika Miyoshi and Yui Okada), DEF Diva (a select works groups made of Rika Ishikawa, Maki Goto, Natsumi Abe, and Aya Matsuura), GAM (composed of Miki Fujimoto and Aya Matsuura), Melon Kinenbi (and young women group including Megumi Murata, Hitomi Saitou, Masae Ohtani, Ayumi Shibata), Eco-Moni (an environmental group made from Sayumi Michishige and Rika Ishikawa), W (a group now on hiatus made from Ai Kago and Tsuji Nozomi). H!P is also composed of soloists. Their soloists are Aya Matsuura, Maki Goto, Abe Natsumi, Yuko Nakazawa, Kaori Iida, and Koharu Kusumi. Hello!Project is also involved in forming Shuffle Groups each year, mixing the various artists into 3 groups. |