Wonder girls members sunmi kpop
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Korean Pop Music or K-Pop that is most familiar to non-Korean audiences is primarily comprised of idol groups. The individuality of members is subsumed under the group’s identity, and it can be a challenge for members to emerge and build their own brand. In this article, I focus on Sunmi (선미), a member of the second-generation girl group Wonder Girls. After the group’s debut in 2007, she later learned how to play an instrument, became a songwriter and producer, and developed her own subgenre (endearingly known as ‘Sunmi-Pop’). Not only that, her discography actively confronts the multiplicity of personas that is required of the life of an idol. I argue that Sunmi has no parallel among female K-Pop idols, and her biography informs previous work about the potential feminist possibilities that girl groups (from the Motown Era, for instance) can bring. Western scholarship has largely ignored K-Pop in its theorizing of popular music more generally. When researchers focus on K-Pop, they largely do so in isolation rather than as an example of popular music more broadly.
Grace Kao is the IBM Professor of Sociology at Yale Univ
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- For the former member of Rose Queen, see Sunmi (Rose Queen).
Sunmi
Legal name
Lee Sun-mi (이선미)
Birth date
May 2, 1992 (1992-05-02) (age 32)
Birth place
Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Hometown
Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Occupation
Singer-songwriter
Group debut
February 10, 2007
Solo debut
August 20, 2013
Years active
2007–2010
2013–present
Family
Lee Sun-dong (younger brother)
Lee Seung-dong (younger brother)
Color(s)
Pantone 2347 C
Pantone 2587 C
Pantone 2172 C
She made her solo debut on August 20, 2013 with the digital single "24 Hours".
Contents
- 1Career
- 1.1Pre-debut
- 1.22007–2010: Wonder Girls
- 1.32013: Solo debut
- 1.42015–2017: Return to Wonder Girls
- 1.52017–2018: New agency, "Gashina", "Heroine", Warning
- 1.62019–2020: First world tour, "Noir", "Lalalay", "Pporappippam"
- 1.72021: "Tail", 1/6, "Go or Stop?", online concert
- 1.82022: "Oh Sorry Ya", "Heart Burn", B-Side
- 1.92023: B-Side, "[Billion Music Project Vol.1]", "Stranger"
- 1.102024: "Balloon in Love"
- 2Personal life
- 3Dis