Tayio to Ciscomoon  (Japan) AKA : The Ciscomon,The Ciscomoon,Taiyou & Ciscomoon EuroDance group Added : 30/04/2001 Viewed 2204 times                     98 1999 2000

 

Tayio to Ciscomoon albums

Taiyo & Ciscomoon 1

27th Oct 1999

 

Tayio to Ciscomoon singles

	Tsuki To Taiyou	21st Apr 1999
	Gatamekira	23rd Jun 1999
	Uchuu De La Ta Ta	23rd Jul 1999
	Everyday Everywhere	25th Aug 1999
	Magic Of Love	29th Sep 1999
	Marui Taiyou (Winter version)	8th Dec 1999

 

Aliases - Records released under other names

	T&C Bomber - Don't Stop Ren'Ai Chû	19th Apr 2000
	T&C Bomber - Hey! Mahiru no Shinkirou	19th Jul 2000
	T&C Bomber - 2nd Stage (album)	27th Sep 2000

 

Tayio to Ciscomoon biography

This project features 4 girls who were spotted in 1999 during the casting of a TV broadcast called Asayan (Japanaese equivalent of the Popstars reality show). Their producer Tsunku, was not very well-known at this time, but he since became one of the most well-paid in the Japanese musical business. He now stands behind many dozens of very succesful pop projects.

Tsunku was also the creator of the bands' name : the girls were trained in San Francisco, and he combined this with the word "moon". "Taiyou" means the sun in Japanese, and "to" meant "and".

The original members of Taiyou To Ciscomoon were Honda Ruru (born 18/03/1976), a Chinese singer already very popular in her homeland, Kominato Miwa (born 15/02/1977), a folk singer already mother of 2 little boys, Shinoda Miho (born 18/05/1972), olympic champion in gymanstics in Seoul 1988, and Inaba Atsuko (born 13/03/1974), former member of a famous models group of Osaka, the OPD (Osaka Performance Doll).

Tsunku had decided that, if the group's debut single Tsuki To Taiyou (out in April 1999) did not reach at least #6 in the charts, he would give up. Fortunately for the girls, their first single peaked #4 of sales (according to Oricon, offical sales chart in Japan). They were able to keep up their carreer, but they never reached the success of some other groups produced by Tsunku.

Everyday Everywhere, released in August, was a very nice eurodance track.

In December 1999, they released the single Marui Taiyou - Winter Version : at this time they were only 3 girls in the group. Then in March 2000, they changed their name and became T&C Bomber : with once again 4 girls in the group.

During Summer 2000 the girls took part to some other projects produced by Tsunku (all of them being gathered under the Hello! Project banner) : the Shuffle Units 2000. Shinoda Miho took contributed to Aka-gumi 4, with the single Akai Nikkichou, Inaba Atsuko anf Kominato Miwa were featured by Aoiro 7, with the single Aoi sport-car No Otoko, Honda Ruru became a member of Kiiro 5 with the single Kiiroi Osora de Boom Boom Boom. In October 2000, the group officially split up.

Ruru went back to China and her singer career. Miwa tried to make it in a solo carreer, and Miho started modelling.
Only Atsuko remained in relation with the Hello! project : she took part to the Shuffle unit of Summer 2003 called 7AIR, with the single Kowarenai Ai Ga Hoshii No.

Tsunku is now very famous in Japan. He was the creator of the very succesful project Morning Musume, which sold an amazing number of records. He also produced a lot of small groups which sometimes did not go further than the first single. For people who know the Hello! Project, Taiyô to Ciscomoon stands for the best musical quality Tsunku had ever produced.

2008 : there are rumors according to which the band could be reformed, but nothing has been confirmed.

Thanks to Moonlight and Abelito

The biography was last updated Sun, June 14th 2009

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