After SHUN departed from EXILE, it was necessary to find a new vocalist to replace him, so that the harmonization would still be there to carry on EXILE’s unique sound.
For the first VBA, the songs Lovers Again (written by Jin Nakamura, with lyrics by Kiyoshi Matsuoka) and Giver (written by h-wonder, with lyrics by ATSUSHI) were used to test the contestants.
The finale for this competition was held at Nippon Budokan (often shortened to Budokan). The six finalists (TAKAHIRO, NESMITH, TAKA, Yuichiro Maeda, JONTE and WARNER) showed off their skills to the audience in order for one of them to become the new singer of EXILE.
TAKAHIRO won the last round whilst the remaining five finalists released a single under the name Dreamers. The single ~Ashita no Senshi~ (Tomorrow’s warrior) contained solo versions of the title track sung by each finalist, a main version featuring them all plus the instrumental track (March 7th 2007).
This audition helped recruit new talents for LDH. Not only for the five finalists, who would later go on and enter other groups under the company/agency or in JONTE’s case debut as a soloist later. From the other contestants we can find the likes of Ryouta Maeda and Keisei Amou (whom would go on to become COLOR’s new members), SHOKICHI (who would later go on to become one of the vocalists for the second generation unit of JSB), Shou Aoyagi (who would join Gekidan EXILE), SHIN (member of THE ROOTLESS) and Ryouji Imaichi (who would later go on to become one of the vocalists for the third generation unit of JSB).
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