CHEMISTRY is R&B male duo debuted in March 7, 2001. The duo, Kaname Kawabata and Yoshikuni Dochin are winner of winner, singled out of 19,100 applicants at "ASAYAN Danshi Vocalist Audition. "ASAYAN is a famous TV entertainment-audition program, from which national idol, Ami Suzuki and Morning Musume debuted. This open-to-the public audition was held from October 1999 to January 2001 on TV. Battle after the battle, they remained final four, and pre-debuted with the single "Saigo No Yoru" last December. This single was quantity-limited product with the total manufacturing of only 35,000 pieces, but it was sold out soon, and charted 9th on Japanese version of Billboard, ORICON chart instantly. Out of three possible combinations of duo by final four, Kawabata-Dochin team became the happy winner in January 2001. Debut single "PIECES OF A DREAM" has a touch of R&B taste, but this medium beat and catchy melody will come deeply into your heart. Producer is Kiyoshi "KC" Matsuo, who is popular for Toshinobu Kubota, and Ken Hirai. This single had been charted #1 on ORICON chart, and has been sold unexceptional figure of over one million copies so far !!! After releasing 2nd single "Point of No Return", the duo made a 1st visit in Taiwan, and performed on MTV SUMMER SUMMIT 2001, which was a success. For 3rd single "You Go Your Way", 48-hour only video clip web-cast was done worldwide, and made the record of 1 million hits in just two days ! Release date for 1st album "The Way We Are" was November 7, 2001. It features couple of collaborations with other artists as Keiko Lee and DABO. The sales of this debut album is over 3 million copies!! At the turn of the year, global-scaled news came to CHEMISTRY. The duo was selected as a member of the 2002FIFA World Cup TM Official Artist unit "Voices of Korea/Japan", which consists of CHEMISTRY, Sowelu(new SMEJ female artist), Brown Eyes(Korea), and Lena Park(Korea). 2002FIFA WORLD CUP TM OFFICIAL "KOREA/JAPAN" SONG "Let's Get Together Now" was released on Mar. 13, 2002 in Japan and in Asia. Their 4th single "Kimiwo Sagashiteta ~ New Jersey United ~" is released on May 9th. The duo will keep on their evolution by the act of "CHEMISTRY", as their artist name shows. FROM: http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/eng/DF/CHEMISTRY/ --

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