Takahashi Ai

Name: Takahashi Ai

Japanese name: 高橋愛, たかはし あい
Nickname: Ai-chan, Lovely, Takitty, Tettekete
Birthday: 9-14, 1986
Current age: 23
Birthplace: Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Occupation: Actress and pop singer associated with Hello! Project
Blood type: A
Height: 154 cm
Hobbies: Watching plays, ballet
Specialty: Flipping her eyelids, bridge
Favorite food: Sauce katsudon, omelette rice
Disliked food: Mont blanc, eggplant, pineapple, musubi, perilla leaves
Favorite color: Black, white, pink
Favorite word: "Tomodachi" (友達 - "Friend")
Favorite season: Autumn
Favorite flowers: Roses
Favorite song: Tsumetai Umi / Start in My Life by Kuraki Mai
Love Audition 21 audition songs:
Round 1: "Tsumetai Umi" (Kuraki Mai)

Round 2: "Tsumetai Umi" (Kuraki Mai)
Graduated from Hinode High School, a private academy known for its many celebrity students.
First child in family and has one sister.
Highly skilled and trained in classical ballet and singing. Entered a nation-wide competition with her junior high choir.
Ai Takahashi information
Ai Takahashi is a Japanese pop singer associated with Hello! Project, best known as the leader of Morning Musume and member of its popular subgroup, Mini Moni.Takahashi Ai is a fifth generation member and the current leader of Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Konno Asami, Ogawa Makoto, and Niigaki Risa.

Takahashi Ai 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.
On October 7, 1999, she appeared on the "BS Junior Nodo Jiman" singing competition held in Sabaeshi in Fukui and won the Best Stage Award.
Her black catsuit from Minimoni ja Movie: Okashi na Daibouken! earned her the popular nickname "Takitty" amongst non-Japanese fans.
The nickname "Tettekete" was given to her by Ishibashi Takaaki on Utaban. It was a play on her staccato, Morse Code-like speech pattern (e.g., "tette-te-tette-ke-kete"). However, she has mostly grown out of that pattern — as well as her Fukui accent — in the years since.
Her photobook 19 holds the #1 spot in photobook rankings in 2006.
A huge fan of Takarazuka since childhood. Wanted to be a Takarasienne but gave up on it due to her short height. She is noted by other members for trying to make them watch videos of Takarazuka productions. Her favorite performer is Mizu Natsuki.
Has personally acknowledged she is not good at talk/interview portions.
Like Tsuji Nozomi, she also considers Matsuura Aya as her rival.
Scored the second-highest in the Mechaike Okajo Taiikusai Test.
Takahashi Ai Works
Movies
[2002] とっかえっ娘。 (Tokkaekko)
[2003] ミニモニ。じゃムービーお菓子な大冒険！ (Minimoni ja Movie Okashi na Daibouken!)
[2003] 子犬ダンの物語 (Koinu Dan no Monogatari)
TV Dramas
[2002] Angel Hearts
[2004] ミニモニ。でブレーメンの音楽隊 (Minimoni de Bremen no Ongakutai)
[2006] 天下騒乱〜徳川三代の陰謀 (Tenka Souran ~ Tokugawa Sandai no Inmou) DramaWiki entry
[2006] 道徳女子短大エコ研 (Doutoku Joshi Tandai Ecoken)
Musicals
[2006] リッボンの騎士ザ・ミュージカル (Ribbon no Kishi: The Musical)
Radio
[2003-date] ヤングタウン土曜日 (Young Town Douyoubi)

Takahashi Ai photobooks
高橋愛写真集『水』
Ai Takahashi Photobook "Water"
October 26, 2007 Wani Books
ISBN 978-4-8470-4049-8 Eighth solo photobook. Photographed in Bali.
9 Takahashi Ai Shashinshū "Mō Hitotsu no Ai"[7]
高橋愛写真集『もうひとつの愛』
May 25, 2008 Wani Books
ISBN 978-4847040887 Ninth solo photobook.
10 Takahashi Ai Shashinshū "Watashi"[7]
高橋愛写真集『私』
Ai Takahashi Photobook "I"
May 25, 2009 Wani Books Tenth solo photobook.