Vanilla Beans (band)
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The group performing at the Toulouse Game Show in France in December 2012
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| Years active | 2007 – present |
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| Website | www |
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| Past members | Rika (2007-2008) |
Vanilla Beans (バニラビーンズ), also known as Vanibe, is a Japanese idol girl duo formed in 2007, under the indie label FLOWER LABEL, a sub-label of Tokuma Japan Communications.
Vanilla Beans has had the same line-up since March 2008, when Rika left and Risa joined. In June 2011 they joined the newly formed idol label T-Palette Records, to which they and Negicco were the first artists signed.
After four years under T-Palette Records, the band made its major debut in August 2015 signing a new contract with the popular avex trax label.
Rena, the original member, is a Japanese idol fan. She presents the show "Can't Stop Loving Idols!" (アイドル好きが止まらない!) posted on the Kawaii Girl Japan website. She conducts interviews and reports on other bands.
Managed by the talent agency LesPros Entertainment, the band formed in mid-2007 by Rika and Rena, later a member of the group Idoling! Under the independent label Flower Label, a sub-label of Tokuma Japan Communications, and describes itself as a "next generation idol" group. But before recording songs, the group visits on July 4, 2007 in Denmark in Europe, at the Embassy of Japan, to come forward and to present its concept and art projects to Danes attended this event.
The group released their first single entitled "U ♡ Me" (reads "You love me") in two editions (regular and limited) on October 3, 2007 in Japan ; the first steps to reach the top of the charts are difficult and the single only reached the 189th place on Oricon weekly Singles Chart and remained there only for a week. This is the only disc released by the original formation of the idol group.
In March 2008, Rika left this group after the first single, and soon after, the female group Idoling!!!, to devote herself to her studies. After an audition, another girl, Lisa (or Risa) joined the band and it recorded its second single "nicola" in one edition, released on May 21, 2008 ; but sales of the single also failed and it is the 198th class Oricon.
The band no longer recorded discs until the end of 2008 but was very present on the net publishing several singles in digital format.
The band released a third single "Sakasaka Circus" in an edition on January 28, 2009 but not be included on any ranking. On 25 February 2009 the eponymous debut studio album, "Vanilla Beans", was released ; it contains the first three physical singles under Flower Label but will not ranked on Oricon chart. After these commercial failures, the group begins to work better; the fourth single "LOVE & HATE", whose music is then produced by a foreign artist (a European), was released on September 9, 2009 in two versions: "Love Version" and "Hate Version"; it ranked the 79th place on Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.
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