Who Is Ai Takahashi?

Introducing This Beautiful and Successful Singer, Fashion Model, and Businesswoman

Ai Takahashi or Takahashi, Ai is a Japanese pop music singer who became involved in the popular all female pop music band Morning Musume. The most common nickname given to her is Ai-Chan. Her husband is comedian Koji Abe whom she married in 2014. Note: not all of the details of Takahashi’s life will be written here. I am just providing my own analysis and biography of her.

Ai Takahashi Statistics & Interesting Facts

• Birthplace; Sakai, Fukui, Japan
• Birthdate: September 14, 1986
• Height is 153 centimeters
• Has one younger sister
• Blood type is A
• Zodiac Sign: Virgo
• She is able to keep her anger inside of her.
• The bear is her favorite animal.
• Her favorite colors are red and pink.
• Her hobbies and special skill consist of watching movies and plays and making candy.
• Her favorite phrase is “Yes we can!”
• She changed her hair color to black in February 2012.
• She is a graduate of Hinode High School which is an academy known for its many celebrity students.
• She is highly skilled in classical ballet and singing.
• Her 2006 photo book 19 held the #1 spot in the photo book rankings in 2006!
• She has acknowledged that she is not good when it comes to talking and giving interviews.
• During Morning Musume concerts, she was often kissed by Sayumi Michishige. Ai is so cute that who wouldn’t want to kiss her? I know that I would do it as well.

Ai Takahashi’s Early Years (2001-2003)

Ai Takahashi got her start in the entertainment industry back in 2001 when she joined the famous female pop music group Morning Musume as part of the band’s fifth generation of members. The lineup was as follows:

Ai Takahashi

Asami Konno

Makoto Ogawa

Risa Niigaki

Her first collaboration with the band came when she sang on the single Mr. Moonlight Ai No Big Band. Her first appearance on a full-length release was on the album 4^th Ikimasshoi! This album has currently sold the second most number of copies at 515,400. The next year 2002 was a quiet year for Takahashi as she didn’t do very much. The label called Hello! Project that she became signed to had a subgroup called Happy 7. Takahashi became of the lead singers for the group’s single that year. In 2003, Takahashi replaced Mari Yaguchi in a smaller group which was based on Morning Musume called Mini Moni. At this time, non-Japanese fans gave her the nickname Takitty which came from the fact that she wore a cat suit with a tail in the movie based on the group’s name but it is too long so I won’t list that here. In 2004, Takahashi improved her voice and sang on the last Mini Moni album called MiniMoni Songs 2.

Ai Takahashi’s Middle Career (2005-2008)

In 2005, Morning Musume released their first single of that year called The Manpower!! Later that year, Takahashi joined another group called Elegies. In 2006, Takahashi got a lead role in a musical called Ribbon No Kishi the Musical. She played the role of Sapphire. This musical starred many of the members of Morning Musume at that time. A short time later, she released her first and only single as of the first writing. That single is called Yume Kara Samete. In 2008, Takahashi became part of a newly created group called High King. This group was trying to promote Morning Musume’s musical Cinderella the Musical. Takahashi played the lead role in that musical. She and Risa Niigaki would star in a TV drama together.

Radio Show and Graduation

In February 2009 Takahashi and Risa Niigaki became tied for the most singles that they sang in as part of Morning Musume. Later that year, Takahashi was a huge supporter of getting Final Fantasy 8 released in Japan. In 2010, she had her own radio show. Takahashi then started to study English by using the PSP game Talkman. She starred in a dubbed version of the Korean drama Accidental Couple. In the Fall of 2011, Takahashi would graduate from Morning Musume.  Takahashi then started her own blog and announced that she would be opening up her own Amoeba store. After an autumn concert tour, Takahashi then officially left Morning Musume after ten years with the group.

After Graduation From Morning Musume (2011-Present)

Takahashi released her final photo book in July 2011 called Ai Ai Ai. She was then named the Ambassador of her home town. But Ai Takahashi’s career is still alive and well. Takahashi has been working as a fashion model after graduating from Morning Musume. In May 2013, she was fortunate enough to do work as a fashion model for Vanquish Venus fashion magazine. She went to Thailand on August 31^st through September 1, 2013 and over there she was in the event called Japan Festa 2013 where she held a free LIVE show and handshake event. In October 2013, she released her first style book called AI am I. A year later in September 2014 she would release her second style book called I have AI.

In September 2016, she released her third style book called 30. Speaking of fashion modeling Takahashi has an extensive list of photo book releases including Katachi which I will write about in the future. Takahashi went to what is described as a love hotel in 2014 to film a scene for a drama. It would be on May 29, 2021 that she served as an Olympic torchbearer for her home city of Fukui for the 2020 Olympics which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.