female
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A female has larger gamet ...
rap
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duo
Duo may refer to:
Places
*Duo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community and coal town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
*Duo, Tampere, a shopping centre in Hervanta, Tampere, Finland
* DUO, a twin-tower development in Singapore
Arts, enterta ...
from
Japan
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composed of Rachel Watashiga and Mamiko Suzuki, known professionally as Rachel and Mamiko, respectively. 'chelmico' is a portmanteau of the duo's names.
Career
chelmico formed in 2014 after Rachel Watashiga and Mamiko Suzuki met through a mutual friend at a
McDonald's
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in Arakawa, in Tokyo, Japan. The two bonded over a love of music, particularly over Japanese hip-hop group
Rip Slyme
Rip Slyme (often stylized as RIP SLYME) is a Japanese hip hop group. In its best known incarnation, it was primarily composed of four MCs (Ryo-Z, Ilmari, Pes & Su) and a DJ, Fumiya. Pes and Su have since parted ways with the group. Their soun ...
, and soon became regular friends. At the time, Watashiga did some modeling work and appeared in the background of music videos for Ōmori Seiko. When one of her friends offered her 10 minutes during a music event they were organizing in spring of 2014, Watashiga invited Suzuki to rap with her.
The next step came a year later, when they were given another offer to perform at another show for fifteen minutes. The two reached out to rapper PAGE, then known as Holly Page, to provide a track while they wrote lyrics. The end result was ''Labyrinth '97'', their first single. Their first self-titled album was released in October 2016 under the Cupcake ATM label. In 2018, they released their album ''POWER'' under
unBORDE
Unborde (アンボルデ ''anborude''; stylized as unBORDE) is a Japanese record label established on December 21, 2010 as a sublabel of Warner Music Japan. The label is currently led by Ryoma Suzuki, Rip Slyme's producer.
Current roster
As of Ju ...
, a division of
Warner Music Japan
Warner Music Group's labels include the following.
Flagship labels
*Atlantic Records
*Elektra Records
*Parlophone Records
*Warner Records
Atlantic Records Group
* 1st & 15th Entertainment
* Nipsey Hussle, All Money In
* Mike Caren, Artist Par ...
, who they have been with since then.
Their single, ''Easy Breezy'', (released January 17, 2020) was used as the opening theme song for the anime adaptation of ''
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sumito Ōwara. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Big Comic Spirits'' since 2016 and has been collected in seven ''tankōbon'' volumes as of July ...
'' Later that year, they appeared on the m-flo single ''RUN AWAYS.''
Two singles, ''milk'' and ''Disco (Bad dance doesn't matter),'' were released in July and August (respectively) preempting their third album, ''maze.'' The album released on August 26, 2020.
On March 14, 2021, Rachel announced she would take a hiatus from performing due to her marriage and pregnancy. She expressed a hope to return to music by the end of the year. Rachel announced she gave birth to her first child on June 7, 2021.
The duo released their third EP, 'COZY' on April 16, 2021, following the release of their single of the same name earlier that month.
On November 19, 2021, the duo released a single entitled '300 Million Yen'. This was followed by another single on March 17, 2022, titled 'Meidaimae'. Both of these would feature in their next studio album, 'Gokigen', which released on June 1, 2022.
Members
Rachel
* Name:
* Birth date:
* Birthplace:
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
Mamiko
* Name:
* Birth date:
* Birthplace:
Tokyo
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Discography
Studio albums
Mini-albums
Singles
Additional music work
* ''Trekkie Trax The Best 2016–2017'' (2018)
** 1. "Love Is Over"
** 19. "Love Is Over" (Tomggg Remix)
* Onigawara – チョコレイトをちょうだい (2015)
** 2. "YOU×3"
*
Ken Hirai
is a Japanese R&B and pop singer. Since his debut, Hirai has worked as a model, actor, composer, lyricist, singer, and brand ambassador.
During his career, Hirai has released 45 singles and nine studio albums as of January 2019.
** 8. ''Why''
* m-flo – "Run Aways" (2020) (as m-flo♡chelmico)
Cast
Radio
* ''chelmico - But It's Still Saturday'' (Scheduled to air from January 4, 2020 - the end of March on TBS Radio)
* ''Ogi Yahagi no Meganebiiki'' (January 3, 2020 on TBS Radio) (Mamiko only)
* All Night Nippon 0 (ZERO) (May 18, 2019 on Nippon Broadcasting)