Yuichiro Maeda (YUICHIRO), Keisei Amou (KEISEI) and Ryouta Maeda (RYO) were chosen to become TAKA’s new companions to continue with the group activities. TAKA became the new leader and their music kept the R&B/Soul sound, which was strongly influenced by groups like Boyz II Men and US R&B legends that ATSUSHI had already collaborated with on October 2006 and later on would trace a nice friendship with.
From this new chapter (2006 to 2009) the group stayed active as part of LDH’s company but also as part of the EXILE family, doing more than just one feature with them and even having their own versions of EXILE’s songs.
This era’s singles:
Namida ga Ochinai you Ni (While teardrops fall) – April 25th 2007
Blue Sky – May 26th 2007
Aoi Tori (Blue bird) – November 28th 2007
Kimi no Inai Michi (A road without you) – January 23rd 2008
Midnight Call – June 18th 2008
Miss You – November 12th 2008
With You ~Luv merry X’mas – December 3rd 2008
Long Distance – January 28th 2009
The song With You ~Luv merry X’mas~ is a cover from LUVandSOUL’s original song, the group KIKURI, original member of COLOR, would join in 2011. Thanks to this cover, the group LUVandSOUL started to draw some interest from the audiences. That single also had a cover of the song Tada… Aitakute, written by SHUN and Hitoshi Harukawa for EXILE. The group called LUVandSOUL was produced by Daisuke DAIS Miyachi, one of the most recurrent producers for EXILE as well as the composer of the song COLOR covered, as well as Yuichi Ohno, another of LDH’s regular. The song Namida ga Ochinai you Ni is also a cover from a LUVandSOUL song, written by Daisuke Miyachi.
The albums of this period:
BLUE ~Tears from the sky~ - January 23rd 2008
BLACK ~A night for you~ -July 30th 2008
WHITE ~Lovers on canvas~ - February 4th 2009
Their second album included the track 24karats –type C- featuring DOBERMAN INC, as their own version of EXILE’s clothing brand’s theme.
During this chapter, in May 2007, they collaborated with Miliyah Kato for the song My Girl. They also had two tours around the country: the COLOR LIVE TOUR 2007 BLUE and the COLOR LIVE TOUR 2008 BLACK, being their first solo tours ever.
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