Golf & Mike
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Golf & Mike, more often credited in Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 as Golf-Mike (Thai
Thai language
Thai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively...

: กอล์ฟ-ไมค์), is a Thai
Thai people
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 pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 duo artist consisting of brothers Pichaya "Golf" Nitipaisalkul and Pirat "Mike" Nitipaisalkul, formed under Thailand's biggest entertainment company, GMM Grammy.

Members

  • Pichaya Nitipaisalkul or Golf, born February 20, 1987
  • Pirat Nitipaisalkul or Mike, born December 19, 1989


Golf was born on February 20, 1987, into a family of Thai-Chinese
Thai Chinese
The Thai Chinese are an overseas Chinese community who live in Thailand. Thailand is home to the largest, oldest, most prominent, and most integrated overseas Chinese community in the world with a population of approximately 9.5 million people...

 descent and the younger brother of Sand and Bank, a retired musical sibling duo that was under record label RS Entertainment. Mike was born on December 19, 1989, the youngest son in the family. Influenced by their older brothers, Golf and Mike aspired to be singers.

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

They are currently studying at Mahidol University International College
Mahidol University
Mahidol University is a public research university in Bangkok, Thailand. Established back in 1888 as School of Medical Practitioners, Siriraj Hospital and reorganized in 1943 as University of Medical Sciences . The university originally focused on Health Sciences but also expanded to other...

.

2002–2005: Pre-debut activities

In 2002, the two Nitipaisalkul brothers were auditioned into the 1st generation of G-Junior, a training project by GMM Grammy, Thailand's largest entertainment company. As trainees, Golf & Mike were practiced in singing, dancing, acting, and language and they were made appearing in many GMM Grammy
GMM Grammy
GMM Grammy Public Company Limited is the largest media conglomerate entertainment company in Thailand. It claims a 70% share of the Thai entertainment industry. Artists on Grammy include Bird McIntyre and Loso...

 concerts. Golf & Mike along with other G-Juniors joined J-Asean Pops Concert 2003 (October 10) in which the concert featured Johnny's Entertainment artists, Hideaki Takizawa
Hideaki Takizawa
is a Japanese actor and member of the J-pop duo Tackey & Tsubasa from Tokyo, Japan. In 2002, when he reached the age of 20, he debuted with Tsubasa Imai in the group Tackey & Tsubasa under the record label Avex Trax. That same year, he graduated from Johnny's Junior. Tackey & Tsubasa have released...

, Jimmy, KAT-TUN
KAT-TUN
KAT-TUN is a Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates in 2001. The group's name is an acronym based on the first letter of each member's family name until the departure of Jin Akanishi in 2010. As of 2010, KAT-TUN stands for Kazuya KAmenashi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Koki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda,...

, Ya-Ya-Yah
Ya-ya-yah
Ya-Ya-yah is a Johnny's Jr. group from Johnny & Associates, which also produced groups such as KAT-TUN, SMAP, TOKIO, KinKi Kids, Arashi, NEWS and Tackey & Tsubasa. On May 15, 2002, the group released double A-side single "Yūki 100%/Sekai ga Hitotsu ni Narumade." The single debuted at #9 on the...

, A.B.C, & Five. The G-Juniors also performed consecutively at Pattaya Music Festival in 2003 & 2004 (all featured Johnny's artists). From these concerts, Golf, Mike and other G-Juniors were spotted by Johnny's crews and later were invited to join the Thai-J Pop Concert in 2004 (Tackey & Tsubasa, KAT-TUN
KAT-TUN
KAT-TUN is a Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates in 2001. The group's name is an acronym based on the first letter of each member's family name until the departure of Jin Akanishi in 2010. As of 2010, KAT-TUN stands for Kazuya KAmenashi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Koki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda,...

 & A.B.C).

In 2004, Golf & Mike issued their first Thai concert performance as an opening act to Bird Thongchai McIntyre's For Fan Fun Fair Concert. The two boys with B-boy dancing at the middle of the stage started to gain their own fanclub. At the end of 2004, Golf & Mike were invited to join NEWS
NeWS
NeWS was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid 1980s. Originally known as "SunDew", its primary authors were James Gosling and David S. H. Rosenthal...

 concert at Tokyo International Forum as special guests and early 2005 they were invited again in Ya-Ya-Yah
Ya-ya-yah
Ya-Ya-yah is a Johnny's Jr. group from Johnny & Associates, which also produced groups such as KAT-TUN, SMAP, TOKIO, KinKi Kids, Arashi, NEWS and Tackey & Tsubasa. On May 15, 2002, the group released double A-side single "Yūki 100%/Sekai ga Hitotsu ni Narumade." The single debuted at #9 on the...

 concert in 2005. Golf & Mike performed "Epilogue" at these concerts and were called Thai Junior by Japanese press at the time.

2005: Debut

It took 4 years before the Nitipaisalkul brothers finally debuted as Golf-Mike in October 2005 with their self-titled album, Golf-Mike. Dance-pop track "Bounce" was chosen to be the album's first promotional single, and it became a big hit in Thailand. The other tracks, "Ruang Lek Kaung Tur", "Ta Lok Dee", "Yah Len Bab Nee," and "Epilogue" were also widely accepted in the industry. Noted that "Epilogue", a cover of Tackey & Tsubasa hits, was given as a present from Johnny Kitagawa for their debut album.

Golf & Mike's first album became a blast in the Thai music industry as theirs first nomination was the Most Popular Artist for the Year award for the Seed Awards 2006, which they also won in February 2006. 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.

2006: Special units in Japan & Thailand

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
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 forming Johnny's Entertainment's first ever international unit, Kitty GYM
Kitty GYM
Kitty GYM is a temporary unit that was composed in 2006. They were formed to promote the Women's Volleyball World Grand Prix, an event that began August 18 and ended on September 10, 2006....

 along with popular J-pop
J-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 figure, Tomohisa Yamashita
Tomohisa Yamashita
, also widely known as Yamapi, is a Japanese idol, actor, and singer.Yamashita joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 11 and made his official CD debut with NEWS in 2004. He debuted as a solo artist in 2006 with the hit single "Daite Senorita". His first solo...

. "GYM", stands for Golf, Yamashita and Mike, respectively with "Kitty" standing for the 4 Johnny's Jrs, Hiromitsu Kitayama (Kis-my-ft2), Kei Inoo (J.J. Express, later Hey! Say! JUMP
Hey! Say! JUMP
Hey! Say! JUMP is a ten-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. The name Hey! Say! refers to the fact that all the members were born in the Heisei period and JUMP is an acronym for Johnny's Ultra Music Power...

), Shota Totsuka (A.B.C.), and Hikaru Yaotome (Ya-Ya-Yah, later Hey! Say! JUMP
Hey! Say! JUMP
Hey! Say! JUMP is a ten-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. The name Hey! Say! refers to the fact that all the members were born in the Heisei period and JUMP is an acronym for Johnny's Ultra Music Power...

). GYM released one single, "Fever to Future" (フィーバーとフューチャー) as an official supporter of the Women's Volleyball World Grandprix. The single ranked #1 on the Oricon
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 chart. Golf & Mike also performed in 25 rounds of Johnny's Jr no Daibouken Concert.

At the end of August, Golf & Mike teamed up with other G-Juniors including Chin
Chinawut Indracusin
Chinawut-Stéphane Indracusin also known as Chin, is a Thai singer, born on August 13, 1989 from a French mother and a Thai father...

, 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
Impact Arena
IMPACT Muang Thong Thani is a complex consisting of an arena, convention center and exhibition hall in suburban Bangkok, Thailand. It is located in Amphoe Pak Kret, Nonthaburi Province....

. The concert was first meant to be the Thai-J Pop Concert with Arashi & Golf-Mike but Arashi had to cancel its participation due to politic occurrences in Thailand at the time. 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 album 10 Club, Golf & Mike got back to the studios and started working on their second full-length album. By the end of 2006, Golf & Mike decided to release a special album 365 Days With Golf-Mike instead of their second album. This special album included a hit song, Kaub Koon Young Noi Pai.

2007: One By One and Japanese album

They promoted the special album and worked in the studio for the second album until March 8, 2007 when their second album, One By One, officially launched to the stores. The first music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for the album, "Fight For You," took them three whole days to practice for Free-Running. Golf took his first step in song writing for the lyrics of "Sexy Girl".

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 Japanese album RIN under Johnny's Entertainment production.

In September 2007, Golf & Mike were invited to perform the Asia Song Festival
Asia song festival
Asia Song Festival, aka A-Song-Fe or ASF, is an annual Asian pop music festival held in South Korea, since 2004. It is hosted by Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange and features artists from Asian countries...

 2007 in Korea. Along with this introduction, they released the Korea edition of their One By One album under SM Entertainment
SM Entertainment
S.M. Entertainment is an independent Korean record label, talent agency, producer, and publisher of pop music, founded by Lee Soo-man in South Korea...

. It contains two bonus tracks sung in Korean, Fight For You and Thanks to.

2008: Get Ready & TV drama debut

Both Golf and Mike have taken the leading roles in a Thai series called Ubat Ruk Kaam Kaub Fah
Ubat Ruk Kaam Kaub Fah
Ubat Ruk Kaam Kaub Fah is a Thai "lakorn " directed and screen-written by Ping Lampraplerng. It started airing in 2008, starring the two brothers that are one of Thailand's hottest teen sensation, Golf and Mike as well as actresses Jarinporn "Toey" Joonkiat and Pattarasaya "Peak" Kruasuwansiri who...

 (Love Beyond Frontier)
(directed and screen-written by Ping Lampraplerng) that was broadcast on Modern 9 TV in Thailand during the year 2008, and was later followed by a sequel "Ubat Ruk Kaam Kaub Fah 2."

In late 2008, the brother duo made their moves into Chinese music market by doing their first promo in Malaysia and launched their greatest hit album, Inspiration Greatest Hits.

In December 2008, Golf & Mike released the awaited third album, GET R3ADY featuring the collaboration song Let's Get Down with Khan Thaitanium. Their interests in song writing were fulfilled in this album as Golf wrote and produced a song called "My Superstar" and Mike wrote a song called "You" which became a big hit.

2009: The 1st National Tour and International Appearances

In May 2009, Brother duo Golf & Mike released their first-ever Chinese album in Malaysia entitled "Get Ready 2", including 2 Chinese tracks, 同班同學 (meaning Classmate) and Inspiration.

Golf Mike and Ice Saranyu from GMM Grammy held their first concert in Tokyo, Japan on July 11, 2009 entitled Golf, Mike, Ice Thai Shiki Concert.

From October to November 2009, Golf Mike held their first-ever national concert tour around Thailand in 9 provinces, entitled The Closer Golf Mike National Tour Concert By Puriku. Their last concert of the tour was in Bangkok. To support the tour, Golf & Mike wrote & produced their very own song, "Let's Stay Together" and sang it as the close song of this tour.

Currently they are working in collaboration with the Korean duo Mighty Mouth to release an album that will be sold in Thailand and Korea and has performed the song "No Matter" for the Star Stage TV program on the 29th of November 2009.

2010: New project

Golf & Mike began the year with superb Michael Jackson dances at This Is It The Concert on February 20–21, the official tribute concert to Michael Jackson held collaboratively by Sony Music (Thailand) and GMM Grammy. Golf & Mike had been known for being an avid fan of Michael Jackson delivered acclaimed "Smooth Criminal" performances and also were joined by Chin, also former G-Junior, Peck Palitchoke and Dan Worrawet in the song, "Billy Jean" and "Beat It".

Golf & Mike still remain commercial favourite stars as they opened the year with 2 new commercials including Fino with Super Junior members and Singto and then also endorsed Puriku Sicily Lemon.

By March 2010, Golf & Mike mentioned their next project of this year as a diclosed big surprise, rumorly that they were going to take dance class in the USA before coming back with their 4th album.

2011: Solo Album

On February 1, 2011, Golf officially released his new solo single titled "Take Me to Ur Bed".

On March 1, 2011, Mike (D. Angelo) officially released his new solo single, "Ayo".

Studio albums

Thai
  • 2005: Golf-Mike
  • 2007: One By One
  • 2008: GET R3ADY

Japanese
  • 2007: RIN (凛)

Special albums/units

  • 2006: 10 Club (as G-JR, a collaboration with other G-Junior artists)
  • 2006: 365 Days With Golf-Mike
  • 2009: One By One (Korea edition)
  • 2009: GET R3ADY 2 (Chinese - Malaysia edition)
  • 2009: Mai Pid Chai Mai Tee Rak Tur (Love Beyond Frontier OST)

Compilations

  • 2007: Golf Mike Music Box Collection
  • 2008: Inspiration Greatest Hits (Malaysia edition)
  • 2008: Golf-Mike: Diary Hits

Singles/Non-album tracks

  • 2005: Tong Ther Tao Nun (I'll Never Live Without You)
  • 2005: Kon Kon Deaw Kun
  • 2006: Fever to Future (フィーバーとフューチャー) - GYM
  • 2007: Nippon Ainiikuyo (ニッポンアイニイクヨ)
  • 2009: Let's Stay Together
  • 2010: Brighter Day (Klear featuring Golf Pichaya)

DVDs/VCDs

  • 2006: Let's Bounce Concert
  • 2006: The Show Must Go On Concert by Golf-Mike & Friends
  • 2007: One By One Concert
  • 2008: Golf Mike Get Ready Concert
  • 2009: The Closer Golf-Mike National Tour Concert

Photobooks

Golf & Mike have released 3 official photobooks. All published by GMM Grammy's subsidiary, 'In Publishing'.
  • 2006: Unseen Golf-Mike
  • 2006: Golf-Mike The Backstage Show
  • 2009: Golf & Mike Live Photograph

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Golf Role Mike Notes
2007 Mid-Road Gang
Ma-Mha
Ma-Mha is a 2007 Thai comedy-drama film directed by Pantham Thongsang and Somkiet Vituranich about a pack of stray dogs in suburban Bangkok who want to cross a busy highway in hopes of finding a better life on the other side of the road...


มะหมา 4 ขาครับ
Makham (voice)
มะขาม
Main protagonist
Television series (Lakorn)
Year Title Role Golf Role Mike Network
2008 Love Beyond Frontier
อุบัติรักข้ามขอบฟ้า
Golf
กอล์ฟ
Mike
ไมค์
Modern 9 TV
2009 Love Beyond Frontier 2
อุบัติรักข้ามขอบฟ้า2
Golf
กอล์ฟ
Mike
ไมค์
Modern 9 TV

Commercials

  • 2006: 12PLUS CUTIE, facial powder
  • 2006: YAMAHA
    Yamaha Motor Company
    , is a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company. Yamaha Motor is part of Yamaha Corporation and its headquarter is located in Iwata, Shizuoka. Along with expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized...

     FINO, motorcycle
  • 2007: iKeyclub.com
  • 2007: True Corporation
    True Corporation
    True Corporation Public Company Limited is a communication conglomerate in Thailand. True controls Thailand's largest cable TV provider True Visions, its largest ISP True Internet and its third-largest mobile operator True Move.-History:...

  • 2007: Save The World
  • 2007: MY STYLE MY FINO, motorcycle
  • 2008: PURIKU, fruit white tea
  • 2008: i-mobile 625
  • 2008: i-mobile TV 626
  • 2008: YAMAHA NEW FINO 2008, motorcycle with Korean boy-band Super Junior
    Super Junior
    Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...

  • 2009: PURIKU COOL
  • 2009: Citra, Body Lotion
  • 2009: My FINO ... My Experience, motorcycle with Korean boy-band Super Junior
    Super Junior
    Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...

  • 2010: Amazing FINO
  • 2010: PURIKU Sicily Lemon
  • 2010: PURIKU goji berry {with Aum patchaapa}
  • 2011: Mike-Sumsung Refrigerator

Awards and nominations

  • 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
    Asia song festival
    Asia Song Festival, aka A-Song-Fe or ASF, is an annual Asian pop music festival held in South Korea, since 2004. It is hosted by Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange and features artists from Asian countries...

    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"
  • 2008: Korean Ambassador award
  • 2008: Audition Music Award "Best Band"
  • 2008: Sudsapda Young & Smart Vote 2008 "Young & Smart Band"
  • 2009: Top Awards 2008 "Best Group Artist"
  • 2009: Seed "Most Popular Artist of the Year" award
  • 2009: TV Inside Hot Awards
  • 2009: Seventeen Magazine Choice Award "Seventeen Music Group Artist"
  • 2009: Virgin Greetz Awards: Greetz Hair
  • 2010: Top Awards 2009 "Best Group Artist"

External links

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