was a Japanese

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associated with

Hello! Project is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but ha ...

. The group was created to promote

Morning Musume , formerly simply and colloquially referred to as , are a Japanese girl group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon, Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles ...

's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Cinderella'', titled . Their sound is said to have an R&B feel.

History

The group's debut single, , was released on June 11, 2008, under the Zetima label in two versions. The regular version contains the

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only, while the limited version contains a bonus DVD. The

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was also released for the song two weeks later, on June 25, 2008. High-King returned in 2009 along with other shuffle units, releasing two new songs to compilations in 2009, "Diamonds", a cover song and a new original song later in 2009 called "DESTINY LOVE". High-King ceased activities in September 2011 when Ai Takahashi graduated Morning Musume and Hello! Project, effectively graduating from High-King as well. In 2013, High-King briefly returned to perform "C/C (Cinderella Complex)" as Ai Takahashi with High-King, making High-King officially a three-member unit with Reina, Saki and Maimi. In 2015, Saki Shimizu and Maimi Yajima briefly performed during Berryz Kobo Matsuri on February 28 and March 1 as High-King, performing the song "Koiku no Meiro".

Members

Reina Tanaka is a Japanese singer and actress. She is the leader of the Japanese rock band Lovendor. From 2002 to 2013, she was one of the main vocalists of the girl group Morning Musume and participated in other music acts under the Hello! Project name. ...

(Leader of High King and member of

) (graduated May 2013) *

Ai Takahashi (born September 14, 1986) is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Hello! Project and is best known as the leader of Morning Musume and Hello! Project until 2011. She is also a former member of its popular subgroup Mini Mon ...

(Leader of Morning Musume) (graduated September 2011) * Saki Shimizu (Leader of Berryz Kobo) * Maimi Yajima (Leader of Cute) *

Yuuka Maeda is a former Japanese singer and actress. After joining Hello Pro Egg, a trainee program associated with Hello! Project, she achieved early fame as Amulet Heart in Shugo Chara Egg! before debuting in S/mileage, a Japanese idol girl group assoc ...

(Member of

Hello! Pro Egg (formerly known as until January 2012) is a pre-debut training group established by Japanese entertainment agency Up-Front Group within Hello! Project is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and group ...

, and after

S/mileage , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (''Hello! Project'' trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of ''Hello! ...

member) (graduated December 2011)

Discography

Singles

Other Songs

2009: *"

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" (Chanpuru 1 ~Happy Marriage Song Cover Shuu~) *"DESTINY LOVE" (Petit Best 10) 2010: *"Daite yo! PLEASE GO ON" (Hello! Project 2010 Summer ~Fankora~) 2011: *"Scramble" (Hello! Project 2011 Winter ~Kangei Shinsen Matsuri~ A gana Live) *"SHALL WE LOVE?" (Hello! Project 2011 Winter ~Kangei Shinsen Matsuri~ A gana Live)

References

External links

Official Hello! Project discography
Musical groups established in 2008 Japanese girl groups Japanese idol groups Japanese pop music groups Hello! Project groups Musical groups from Tokyo {{Hello!Project-stub