SMAP

History

Group SMAP was formed in 1988, although their first individual left only in 1991. Letters “SMAP” means officially " Sports and Music Assembles People". Was SMAP in the beginning made up of the five current members as well as Katsuyuki Mori (森且行, Mori Katsuyuki?), which left the in May 1996 group in order to continue a career in the automobile race.

SMAP began as a group with Johnny & Associates, an specialized agency in the adolescent artists. The artists of SMAP met in 1987 and were called the " Skate Boys". They were in the beginning dancers of help for Hikaru Genji, a very popular group in Japan at that time. In 1988, they formed SMAP. The Nakai, oldest of the group, was indicated to be the leader of the group. They began their career in 1991 strictly speaking, insofar as they did not leave songs énormament, they were not immediately very known. Of all the groups of Johnny & Associates, SMAP was without any least known doubt.

Since SMAP had always evil to be really made know, Nakai required of the office of Johnny to let SMAP present a program of variety in order to make laugh people with their personalities really single!

Discography

Individual

Albums

Television

The group has diversified its activities for several years and turn sometimes for various televised films of unequal quality. He also play for many publicities

SMAP X SMAP

The group presents a weekly emission of varieties since 1996 on the chain Fuji TV. The tone of the emission is generally very light, even puerile (around topics like the dance, the song, the kitchen or the pottery), but can be on the contrary sometimes serious, even serious (discussion on the topic of the suicide of the teenagers). The guests are generally Japanese celebrities but sometimes international high-speed motorboats like David Beckham or Will Smith.

The sixth member

The group counted at the beginning six members but Katsuyuki Mori preferred to concentrate with its true passion, the automobile race, and decided to leave SMAP in May 1996.

Zh-min-nan: SMAP

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