Golf & Mike

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GOLF&MIKE
at MTV Asia Awards 2006
Background information
Origin Thailand
Genre(s) T-pop, J-pop
Years active 2002–present
Label(s) GMM Grammy, Johnny's Entertainment, SM Entertainment

Golf-Mike is a Thai sibling pop duo. (In Japan they are known as GOLF&MIKE)

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[edit] Members

Golf (Pichaya Nitipaisalkul/พิชญะ นิธิไพศาลกุล)

Birthdate : 20 February 1987

Nationality: Thai


Mike (Pirath Nitipaisalkul/พิรัชต์ นิธิไพศาลกุล)

Birthdate: 19 December 1989

Nationality: Thai

[edit] Biography

Golf & Mike were recruited into the G-Junior project by GMM Grammy, Thailand's biggest entertainment company in 2002. The brothers were trained in singing, dancing, acting, and some other classes for 4 years before finally debuting as artists in November 2005 in their self-titled album, "Golf-Mike". The album contains several hits including Bounce, Ruang Lek Kaung Tur, Ta Lok Dee, Yah Len Bab Nee & Epilogue.

In February 2006, Golf-Mike won their first ever award from the Seed Awards 2006 for "Seed Most Popular Artist of the Year". In March, they were able to hold their first solo concert, "Golf-Mike Let's Bounce Concert" at Thunder Dome with an audience of 5,000 people.

In June 2006, Golf-Mike was awarded "Best Breakthrough Artist" from the Channel [V] Thailand Music Video Awards 2006. Later that month, they showed up in Japan forming Johnny's Entertainment's first ever international unit, Kitty GYM along with popular J-pop figure, Tomohisa Yamashita. "GYM", stands for Golf, Yamashita and Mike, respectively with "Kitty" standing for the backup dancers. They released one single, "Fever To Future" as an official supporter of the Women's Volleyball World Grandprix. The single ranked #1 on the Oricon charts.

At the end of August, Golf and Mike teamed up with other G-Junior boys including Chin, Guy, Happy, Madiow, J, Nut, Ken, and Ice as a group called "G-JR" (read as G-J-R) releasing an album, "10 Club".

On October 7, G-JR held a concert again called "The Show Must Go On Concert By Golf-Mike & Friends" at Impact Arena. At the end of the month, G-JR managed to win a Virgin Hitz Awards 2006 for "Popular Vote New Band".

After finishing the promotion for their 10Club album, Golf and Mike got back to the studio and started working on their next album. By the end of 2006, Golf-Mike decided to release a special album "365 Days With Golf-Mike" instead of their unready 2nd album. This special album included a hit song, "Kaub Khun Young Noi Pai".

They promoted the special album and worked in the studio for the 2nd album until March 8, 2007 until their 2nd album, "One By One", became ready to launch. The first MV, "Fight For You" took them 3 whole days to practice for Free-Running. On March 13, Golf-Mike was voted by Thailand's Entertainment Reporter Association in the Star Entertainment Awards 2007 as the "Best Group".

In June 2007 they released their first Japanese debut single, "Nippon Ai Ni Ikuyo". Two months later they released their debut album "RIN".

In September 2007 GOLF&MIKE released a Korean version of their "One By One" album under SM Entertainment. It contains two bonus tracks sung in Korean.

Both Golf and Mike have taken the leading roles in a Thai series called "Ubat Ruk Kaam Kaub Fah" (อุบัติรักข้ามขอบฟ้า) that will be broadcasted in 2008 on Modern 9 TV. This series, or lakorn, is directed and screen-written by Ping Lampraplerng.

Golf and Mike have their very own clothing range, which appears in popular shopping areas such as Siam Square in Thailand.

[edit] Discography

Album

  • 15.11.2005 Golf-Mike
  • 22.08.2006 10 Club (G-JR)
  • 22.12.2006 365 Days With Golf-Mike (Mini-Album) |Japanese Version containing bonus clips|
  • 08.03.2007 One By One |Korean version containing 2 bonus tracks|
  • 22.08.2007 RIN　 (凛) |Limited Edition containing bonus DVD; Thai version containing 3 bonus tracks|
  • (date?) Project Cross-Culture with Ice Sarunyu and James Ruangsak


Single

  • 30.08.2006 Fever To Future (GYM) |Limited Edition containing bonus DVD|
  • 27.06.2007 Nippon Ainiikuyo　 (ニッポンアイニイクヨ) |Thai version containing 1 bonus track|


Special Songs

  • 2005 Tong Ther Tao Nun (I'll Never Live Without You)

[edit] Filmography

Movies


Television Series

  • 2008 Ubat Ruk Kaam Kaub Fah (อุบัติรักข้ามขอบฟ้า ) (filming)


Karaoke VCDs

  • 15.11.2005 Golf-Mike
  • 05.09.2006 10 Club (G-JR)
  • 03.04.2007 One By One


Concerts

  • 10.04.2006 Let's Bounce
  • 14.11.2006 The Show Must Go On (Golf-Mike & Friends)
  • 19.05.2007 One By One

[edit] Commercials

[edit] Awards

  • [2006] Seed "Most Popular Artist of the Year" award
  • [2006] Seed "Most Popular Group Artist of the Year" (nominated)
  • [2006] Channel [V] "Favorite Breakthrough Artist" award
  • [2006] Channel [V] "Best Song" - Ruang Lek Kaung Tur (nominated)
  • [2006] Virgin Hitz "Popular Vote New Band" - G-JR
  • [2007] Star Entertainment Award "Best Group Artist"
  • [2007] Asia Song Festival 2007 "Best Asian Artist Award" / Appreciation plaque from the Minister of Culture & Tourism in Korea
  • [2007] Seventeen Magazine "Popular Group Artist"
  • [2007] Virgin Hitz "Most Popular Group Artist of the Year" award
  • [2007] Virgin Hitz "Most Popular Song of the Year" award for the song "Tee Prueksa"

[edit] Song Languages

  • Thai
  • English
  • Japanese
  • Korean

[edit] External links