Kue Chans Journey of Discovery - Final Installment of the 1st Chapter

*sorry for the holiday break ^-^*

KAORI IIDA or kaorin or johnson



Kaori is now a hello! Project soloist but was in MM before this for an amazing 8 years. She was leader after her fellow 1st generation member Yuko Nakazawa left and remained here from 2001 to her graduation in 2005. She was also leader of Otomi Gumi when MM was split in half to compensate for 2 separate MM tours.



Kaorin has been in a number of sub-groups in hello! Project : Tanpopo, Aoiro 7, 10nin Matsuri, Odoru 11, 11 Water and Puri Puri Pink. As well as the Hello! Project work she is involved with her solo career in different languages having produced 2 albums with covers of French, Italian and Greek songs.



During her time in Morning Musume her solo parts consisted of short lines and harmonies (i was surprised she had not left earlier with the little individual exposure she recieved). She has now produced several solo albums (though it was almost a year before she released a solo album after her graduation) and taken the role of actress in several shows. She tends not to participate in concerts like other ex-mm members but rather make appearances on shows seemingly separate from her MM past.



PERSONAL COMMENT

so thats it for the first lot. Hopefully i'll start the 2nd gen tomorrow if i can be bothered. As you can see johnson didnt turn out to have as much as i thought she would. Funny that. She must be the member with the longest history but nothing to really show for it. I know she has a huge amount of fans out there who will kill me for saying anything bad (as many mm members fans will) but i really never took a liking to her. She always seemed a little snobby or something. sorry. Its not my dislike of her that shortened this article though but the fact that there really is not much out there on her. gomen nasai.

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