Takahiro Tasaki, better known by his stage name EXILE TAKAHIRO, is a Japanese singer and actor. He is the vocalist of Exile and Ace Of Spades. Takahiro grew up in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Biography
Takahiro Tasaki was born on December 8, 1984 and was raised up in Nagasaki Prefecture. He has a younger sister. He became a big fan of Exile when he and his friends attended one of their concerts in 2005. He decided to join the "EXILE Vocal Battle Audition 2006 ~ASIAN DREAM~" and became the final winner of the audition, held at Nippon Budokan on September 22, 2006. After he won, he eventually became the new vocalist of Exile alongside original member Atsushi. The addition of Takahiro to the group was considered Exile's second era. After he joined, he was given the stage name TAKAHIRO and the group went on to release 3 singles and an album to allow fans, new and old, to adapt to the "new" Exile. They held their tour EXILE LIVE TOUR 2007 EXILE EVOLUTION during May 2007 to further promote the new image of their group. The tour ended at Tokyo Dome on August 5, 2007. In April 2012, he became the vocalist of the rock band Ace Of Spades. They debuted on August 22 in the same year with the single "WILD TRIBE". On June 26, 2013, he made a solo debut with the single "Issen Ichibyou". Takahiro wrote 3 out of the 4 songs from the single himself. In January 2014, he made his acting debut in the Nippon TV drama Senryoku-gai Sōsa-kan . On March 5, 2014, he released his 2nd single "Love Story" which was also used as the theme song for his first drama. Additionally, Takahiro held his first solo exhibitionHajime - Enogu Baka Nisshi - at Saitama Super Arena TOIRO in June of the same year. It showcased approximately 200 of his artworks, including calligraphy, paintings and digital art which fuses calligraphy and photography. On February 20, 2015, it was announced that Takahiro's first drama from 2014 would have a sequel titled Senryoku-gai Sōsa-kan Hime Deka Kurage Senba . On September 23, 2015, Takahiro released his first solo album the VISIONALUX. It was also announced that one of its tracks, "Itsuka mata Aetara", was chosen as the TV commercial theme song for the first season of American series Gotham. Takahiro's first solo album sold about 39.000 copies in the first week of its release and immediately took the 1st spot on Oricon's weekly albums ranking. Between the beginning of 2014 and the end of 2015, Takahiro starred in several commercials for Samantha Thavasa's Samantha Thavasa meets SAMANTHA KINGZ collection alongside supermodel Miranda Kerr. On March 28, 2017, it was announced that Takahiro would make his stage acting debut in the Japanese premiere of the British play MOJO and that he had been selected for the main role. On October 4, he released his 3rd single "Eternal Love". It was his first solo release in two years since his first album. On December 6, he released his first mini-album All-The-Time Memories. Dream Ami participated in the music video as well as the chorus of the track "BLACK BEANZ" and "Irish Blue" was written for Takahiro by Glay's Takuro. On June 13, 2018, Takahiro attended the Short Short Film Festival & Asia 2018 , the largest international short film festival, to present the short filmCanaria in which he participated in as an actor. On January 30, 2019, it was announced that he would play the lead role in the movie Boku ni, Aitakatta , which would be released on May 10. This would be his first time starring in a movie. A few months later, on April 15, it was announced that Takahiro would be starring in the historical movie Three Nobunaga too. It was released on September 20. On July 8 in the same year, he released the digital single "Last Night", his first musical work as a solo artists in nearly 2 years. The track is a self-cover of Ace of Spades' song with the same name. On July 13, Takahiro performed at the live eventJ-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION at Yokohama Arena. On the 27th of the same month, he also started the fan club event tour TAKAHIRO Road Station 2019.'' During one of the stops it was announced that Takahiro would release another digital single, "YOU are ROCK STAR" on October 16.
Personal Life
In January 2015, it was reported that Takahiro and singer Tomomi Itano were dating and close to marriage, however both sides denied those claims. On September 1, 2017, it was announced that he had married Emi Takei. They had co-starred in Takahiro's acting-debut drama Senryoku-gai Sōsa-kan and its sequel together. Their first daughter was born in March 2018.
