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Who are Lead? They are a japanese boy band made up of 4 boys, Hiroki Nakadoi, Shinya Taniuchi, Keita Furuya and Akira Kagimoto. Aged 20, 18, 17, 17 respectively this year. Hiroki is the leader, Shinya is the rapper in the band, Keita is the cute dancer in the group and Akira does everything in the band. Actually, they all do. Let's look at their profiles and Lead's history.Note: No copying of profiles. I took the effort to get the permission to use these articles so please do not copy the profiles.
Hiroki Nakadoi
Chinese Name: 中土居宏宜 Japanese Name: なかどいひろき
Date Of Birth: 26.7.1985
Height: 169 cm
Born: Osaka
Blood Type: AB
Favourite Artist(s): DA PUMP, Hi-D, Craig David
Shinya Taniuchi
Chinese Name: 谷内伸也 Japanese Name: たにうちしんや
Date Of Birth: 23.9.1987
Height: 174 cm
Born: Osaka
Blood Type: A
Favourite Artist(s): F.O.H
Keita Furuya
Chinese Name: 古屋敬多 Japanese Name: ふるやけいた
Date Of Birth: 13.6.1988
Height: 168 cm
Born: Fukuoka
Blood Type: A
Favourite Artist(s): Beastie Boys, DA PUMP
Akira Kagimoto
Chinese Name: 鍵本輝 Japanese Name: かぎもとあきら
Date Of Birth: 20.8.1988
Height: 175 cm
Born: Nara
Blood Type: O
Favourite Artist(s): FIRE BALL
History Of Lead
Three boys: Shinya Taniuchi, Akira Kagimoto and Hiroki Nakadoi were students at Osaka's "Caless Vocal and Dance School" and the three of them became friends. They began to do street performances as the trio known as "remix" in March of 2002. But in May of 2002 they were renamed from "remix" to "flow". flow decided instead of just having three members, they wanted to recruit a fourth member.
Meanwhile, on April 13th, 2002, the "Kyushu/Fukuoka Star Light Audition" was held in Okinawa, Japan searching for new talent. Thirteen year old Keita Furuya (and another girl) were chosen as the "winners" out of 8751 hopefuls! flow tracked Keita down and he joined the now four member "flow" on May 18th, 2002.
Then once again, "flow" went through another and final name change and offically became "Lead" on May 23rd, 2002.
Near the beginning of July in 2002, Lead held their very first live street performance at Osaka Castle Park. 7000 spectators attended their event. It was a huge success.
On July 7th, 2002, to get some more promotion they became the opening act of w-inds.'s 1st live tour "1st Message". They performed their debut song "Manatsu no Magic" in front of about 120,000 people each opening act.
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