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Hyun-a
Hyun-a performs in July 2012
Background information
Birth name김현아
Also known asHyunA, HyunAh
Born (1992-06-06) June 6, 1992 (age 32)
Seoul, South Korea
OriginSouth Korea
GenresPop, dance, R&B, K-pop
Occupation(s)Singer, dancer, model
Instrument(s)Vocals, rapper and songwriter
Years active2007 (2007)–present
LabelsJYP Entertainment (2007)
Cube Entertainment (2008–present)
Website4min.co.kr , http://twitter.com/4M_hyunah
Hyuna
Hangul
김현아
Hanja
Revised RomanizationGim Hyeon-a
McCune–ReischauerKim Hyŏna

Kim Hyun-a (born June 6, 1992) is a South Korean idol, singer, songwriter, dancer, rapper, designer, model, and a member of the Korean girl group 4Minute[1], and sub-unit Trouble maker under Cube Entertainment. She is best known for being in PSY's music video, "Gangnam Style." She describes her own solo career as "performance-oriented music".[1]

She is also a former member of the girl group Wonder Girls.

Biography

Hyun-a was born on June 6, 1992 in Seoul, South Korea. She attended Choongam Middle School and Korea High School of Music and Arts and currently attends Konkuk University, majoring in art culture, receiving special admission to the school.[2] She has a tattoo on her left shoulder that says "My mother is the heart that keeps me alive."[3] A person's blood type is considered significant in Korean culture[4], and she is known to have blood type Rh+0. [5]

Career

2007–2008: Debut, The Wonder Begins, and The Wonder Years

Hyun-a (the second from left to right) performing "Irony" with Wonder Girls at Hanyang University in March 2007

In 2007, Hyun-a made her debut with the Wonder Girls, a girl group managed by JYP Entertainment, with the single "Irony" as the group's main rapper.[6] She left the group in July,[7] when she was removed by her parents due to their concern over her health—in particular, chronic gastroenteritis and fainting spells.[8]

While with the Wonder Girls she was a part of the group's television shows MTV Wonder Girls (season 1) & MTV Wonder Girls (season 2). From May 12, 2007 she was a co-host together with Wonder Girls' Sohee & Brian Joo at Show! Music Core until June 30, 2007 when she left the group.

In 2008 she transferred over to Cube Entertainment.[9] After joining Cube Entertainment, Hyun-a joined girl group 4Minute. Announced in May 2009, the group debuted with their single, "Hot Issue" on 15 June.[10][11]

2009: Collaborations

Hyun-a collaborated with Lee Gi Kwang for the song "2009" from his debut album First Episode: A New Hero, and she also appeared in his first single "Dancing Shoes"'s music video which was released on March 30, 2009. On August 13, 2009 she rapped for Navi's song "Wasteful Tears" and she also appeared in the MV for this song. Hyun-a also appeared in Mighty Mouth's music video for "Love Class" with Uee from After School.

On August 18, 2009 Hyun-a featured for Brave Brothers together with Mabus, Red Roc, Basick & M for his song "Bittersweet".

She became part of the "Dream Team Girl Group" for Samsung's Anycall called "4 Tomorrow". Their first digital single "Tomorrow" was released on October 6, 2009, and the official music video was released on October 12, starring actor Lee Dong Gun, who also starred in each member's individual drama version of the video.[12] Hyun-a's version was released on October 27, 2009. The Dream Team was composed of Hyun-a (4Minute), Seung Yeon (Kara), Uee (After School) & Gain (Brown Eyed Girls).

Hyun-a was also part of Invincible Youth, a South Korean variety show. However, she left the show due to some scheduling conflicts with her group's overseas promotions on 11 June 2010.

2010: Solo debut and controversy

On January 4, 2010, Hyun-a released the single "Change" which debuted high on various online charts while also becoming a top search term.[13] Hyun-a commenced promotions for "Change".[13][14] The song reached #14 on the Gaon 2010 digital yearly charts with 2,469,354 copies sold.

On January 14, 2010, the "Change" music video was flagged with a 19+ rating due to Hyun-a's provocative dancing, citing it to be inappropriate to minors. Cube Entertainment stated that the music video would be re-edited and submitted for approval. However, broadcast station SBS, announced the music video would be restricted for a 15+ audience instead, and MBC announced that it would still be viewable for all audiences.[15] Her "Change" promotions ended in March 2010.

On February 10, Hyun-a released a digital single, "Love Parade", featuring T-MAX's member Park Yun Hwa.

On April 16, Hyun-a released another digital single, "Outlaw in the Wild (Template:Lang-ko)", featuring Nassun, and produced by E-Tribe.[16][17]


On October 14, 2010 Hyun-a played a cameo role in the thriller movie Midnight FM along with fellow band member Ji Hyun.[18]

She also sang a duet with G.NA called "Say You Love Me", in which she wrote/composed the rap lyrics of the song and became a hot topic on Korean portal sites. The duet was released on November 10, 2010.

2011: Bubble Pop! and Trouble Maker

CEO Hong Seungsong of Cube Entertainment announced that Hyun-a would make a comeback with her 1st Mini-Album in May, 2011. He stated that, "Hyun-a will have her second solo song which is expected to be released in May. Though this time, fans should expect a radical change in her concept."

Hyun-a was featured in SS501's Heo Young Saeng's title track "Let It Go" from his first solo mini album, Let It Go released on May 12, 2011.[19]

Hyun-a appeared in the Korean version of “Dancing With The Stars”. The show started broadcasting on June 10.[20]

After several teasers, Hyun-a released her first mini album, titled Bubble Pop! featuring five new songs, with a title track titled "Bubble Pop!". The MV teaser for "Bubble Pop!" was released on June 30, 2011 and the music video was released on July 5. The MV also stars MBLAQ's Lee Joon. In August, the Korea Communications Standards Commission partially banned TV broadcasting of the video for allegedly racy content.[21]

On September 28, 2011 Hyun-a ranked 17th on Billboard's ’21 Under 21′, showcasing the staff’s top picks for the world’s hottest underage stars.[22]

On November 24, 2011 Cube revealed that she will be in a co-ed sub-unit called Trouble Maker with BEAST's Hyunseung.

Trouble Maker's first mini album, Trouble Maker, consists of a dance track as well as an emotional ballad, a solo song for Hyun-a, and a solo song for Hyunseung. The unit started revealing their teaser photos on November 25 through their official YouTube channel "troublemakerofficial", and unleashed their album on December 1.[23]

Hyun-a’s “Bubble Pop” was #9 and #3 on USA's SPIN Magazine’s “Best 20 Songs of 2011″ and "SPIN's Favorite Pop Tracks of 2011" [24] [25]

2012: Ice Cream

On February 12, 2012 it was revealed that "The Birth of a Family" Season 2 will follow up with Hyun-a and singer G.NA. Birth of a Family is an “animal communion variety" program where idols adopt stray pets and take care of them for a certain period of time to raise awareness for animal rights. Hyun-a and G.NA will be taking care of a pet and raising it for a period of 2 months. The first episode with the two singers will be broadcast on March 3.[26]

On March 14, 2012 was revealed that Hyun-a will be launching her own fashion brand called, Hyuna x SPICYCOLOR. Hyuna x SPICYCOLOR will be a ‘retro, chic, and sexy’ concept, pulling inspiration from the vintage looks of the 1950s and 1960s. Hyun-a intends to be highly involved, starting from the concept development, design, as well as directing the photo shoots. Hyun-a stated, “Although as an artist I did show a lot of sexy concepts, for this brand which will be launching at the end of March, I worked very hard to deliver styles that are not only sexy, but also fashionable and stylish. For this spring, if you own a single item mixed with lace, anyone can easily complete a trendy look.”[27]

Hyun-a also appeared as the central female dancer and love interest in the PSY music video for "Gangnam Style," having been selected personally by PSY during the initial production stage.[1] PSY released the female version of Gangnam Style, known as "Oppa Is Just My Style" in August 2012, featuring additional vocals by Hyun-a.[28]

Hyun-a released her second mini album titled Melting on October 21, 2012 with the title track "Ice Cream". The song is produced by mega hitmaker Brave Brothers, being the first collaborative effort between the producer and Hyun-a as a solo artist.[1] The video for Ice Cream was released on October 22, 2012 and features a cameo by PSY.[29] Four days after release, the music video tied the record for the K-pop music video to achieve ten million views on YouTube the fastest. The record is now held by both Girls' Generation's "The Boys" in addition to "Ice Cream". This achievement is especially notable because it even exceeds PSY's attachment rate for his viral hit, "Gangnam Style", which took fifteen days to acquire the same number of views.[30] Melting is also notable for Hyun-a's contributions as a lyricist and composer for "Very Hot" and "To My Boyfriend".[31]

In October, reports suggested that "Very Hot" from Hyun-a's second EP Melting was banned by television networks KBS and MBC. The networks objected to the use of the brand KakaoTalk.[32][33]

On November 14 was revealed that Hyun-a with Hara & Hyorin have been chosen to be soju models for Lotte Liquor.[34]

On October 21st episode of Inkigayo, the live music show revealed a teaser video hinting that ten of the most-wanted K-pop stars are going to transform into four new project groups in the yearly event. Hyun-a will be part of the girl group Dazzling Red with Sistar’s Hyolin, Secret’s Hyosung, After School’s Nana and KARA’s Nicole. Brave Brothers is set to produce the group’s new title song. Slated to air on December 29, the group will perform the tunes only one time on stage and the profits from online streaming and downloading of the songs would be donated to people in need.[35]

Discography

File:HyunA from acrofan.jpg

Main articles: Hyuna discography, 4Minute discography, and Wonder Girls discography

EPs

Filmography

Movies

Year Title Role
2010 Late Night Herself

Television series

Year Title Role
2006–2007 MTV Wonder Girls (Season 1) Herself
2007 MTV Wonder Girls (Season 2) Herself
2009–2010 Invincible Youth Herself
2010 Waving the Korean Flag Herself
2011 Dancing With The Stars Herself
2012 KBS's Birth of a Family Herself
Year Album Song Duration Artist
2009 First Episode: A New Hero "2009" 02:14 AJ feat. Hyun-a
Wasteful Tears "Wasteful Tears" 03:19 Navi feat. Hyun-a
Attitude "Bittersweet" 03:55 Brave Brothers feat. Hyun-a
4Tomorrow "Tomorrow" 03:07 Seungyeon, Uee, Gain feat. Hyun-a
Just BLAQ "Oh Yeah" 03:28 MBLAQ feat. Hyun-a
2010 Love Parade "Love Parade" 03:52 Park Yun Hwa feat. Hyun-a
Outlaw in the Wild "Outlaw in the Wild" 03:30 Nassun feat Hyun-a
Faddy Robot Foundation Faddy Robot 04:13 with Beast's Jun Hyung, Outsider, Verbal Jint, Mighty Mouth's Ssangchu, Vasco and Block B's Zico
Together Forever "Say You Love Me" 03:05 G.NA feat. Hyun-a
2011 Golden Lady "Golden Lady " 03:46 Lim Jeong Hee feat Hyun-a
Let It Go "Let It Go" 03:18 Heo Young Saeng feat. Hyun-a
2012 PSY's Best 6th "Oppa Is Just My Style" 03:45 PSY feat. Hyun-a
Sexy, Sweet, Smart ＆ Sentimental "She Is My Girl" 03:56 S4 feat. Hyun-a
The Next Big Thing "Maker" 03:16 Roh Ji Hoon feat. Hyun-a

Endorsements

Aside from her endorsements alongside 4Minute, Hyun-a has also endorsed the following brands:[citation needed]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Result
2010 Gaon Chart Awards [36] Streaming Award ("Change") Won
12th Mnet Asian Music Awards [37] Best Dance Performance – Solo ("Change") Nominated
2nd AllKpop Awards[38] Best Female Solo Artist Nominated
2011 2011 YouTube K-pop Awards [39] Most Viewed Music Video ("Bubble Pop!") Won
13th Mnet Asian Music Awards [40] Best Dance Performance – Solo ("Bubble Pop!") Won
2011 AllKpop Awards[41] Best Female Solo Artist Nominated
Best Social Network Personality Nominated
2012 Mnet 20's Choice Awards [42] Hot Performance Star with Hyunseung "Trouble Maker" Won
VEVOCertified Awards "Oppa Is Just My Style" 100.000.000 Views with Psy Won
14th Mnet Asian Music Awards[43][44][45] Best Dance Performance – Solo ("Ice Cream") Nominated
Best Collaboration Performance with Hyunseung "Trouble Maker" Won
Song of the Year ("Ice Cream") Nominated
4th Melon Music Awards Song of the Year "Trouble Maker" Nominated
Global Star Award Nominated
Global Star Award "(Trouble Maker Hyuna & Hyunseung)" Nominated
Best Music Video "Trouble Maker" Nominated
Hot Trend Song "Trouble Maker" Won
20th Korean Cultural Entertainment Awards Best Collaboration Performance with Hyunseung "Trouble Maker" Pending
24th World Music Awards Best Female Artist Pending
Best Entertainer of the Year Pending
3rd Allkpop Awards Best Female Solo ("Ice Cream") Pending
Best Music Video ("Ice Cream") Pending

Music awards

M! Countdown

Year Date Song
2011 December 15 Trouble Maker "(with Hyunseung)"
December 22
December 29

Music on Top

Year Date Song
2012 January 5 Trouble Maker "(with Hyunseung)"

Inkigayo

Year Date Song
2012 January 8 Trouble Maker "(with Hyunseung)"

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