Frances & Aiko

Left – Aiko, Right – Frances

Frances & Aiko (フランシス & 愛子)

A duo signed to Hello! Project Taiwan consisting of two young Chinese girls named Frances and Aiko. The two girls were found when they auditioned at the Taiwan NEW STAR auditions — held to find members for a new Taiwanese group to propel Hello! Project into the Chinese market. They were deemed too young to participate in Ice Creamusume and didn’t make the final cut.

Frances and Aiko both attended the Taiwan NEW STAR auditions held to find members for a new Hello! Project group based in Taiwan. Eventually, the two were passed over when it came to the selection as Tsunku felt they were both too young to be a member of his new unit, Ice Creamusume, even though they had both made it to the finals. Frances was only eight years of age and Aiko only a mere six.

However Tsunku stated he had special plans for the duo and they later appeared in January when they performed alongside Morning Musume member Kusumi Koharu in the Elder Club graduation concert as backup dancers, having flown out to Japan for dancing lessons. They were added to the official Hello! Project artist list in the beginning of March.

It was announced on September 2009 that Frances & Aiko would form a unit called “Big Missy” which would release their first album on September 15. The debut album, titled “Wo Shi Dai Xiao​ Jie” (English: I am the Big Missy) has 5 songs, and will include a DVD that  contains MV’s (Music Video’s) to all of their songs, plus “Dancing Lessons” for three songs.

フランシス (Frances)
(French/Chinese)

• Date of Birth: December 27, 2000
• Sign: Sagittarius
• Favorite food: Sushi, oranges
• Senior admire: Kusumi Koharu, Jun Jun, Lin Lin, Hagiwara Mai
• Favorite color: Pink
• Special Skills: singing, dancing, MONOMANE, Comedy

愛子 (Aiko)
(Japanese/Chinese)

• Date of Birth: December 21, 2002
• Sign: Sagittarius
• Favorite food: apples, pickled guava, curry and rice
• Senior admire: Kusumi Koharu, Jun Jun, Lin Lin, Matsuura Aya
• Favorite color: pink, purple
• Special Skills: Sports, MONOMANE

Trivia

• They are the youngest group to ever join Hello! Project
• The group’s name is officially “Da Xiao Jie” (大小姐).
• An article on the Hello! Project website about their debut revealed that the group name in Japanese is “Ojousama” (お嬢さま).
• An official poster, and the URL to their group BabyHome, showed their unit name to be written in English as “Big Small Sister”.

http://helloproject.wikia.com/wiki/Frances_&_Aiko

http://j-ongaku.org/wiki/Frances_%26_Aiko

http://wiki.jpopstop.com/wiki/Ojousama