Sashi's Blog: T-ara (aka Tiara)

Friday, 11 December 2009

T-ara (aka Tiara)

New wave hot KPOP girls band. Formed by Mnet Media in 2009 (the same company of SeeYa, and Davichi, Lee Hyori, and SG Wannabe). Compete with other newcomers like 4Minute, 2NE1, HAM, Rainbow, F(x).

Their PVs look professional, LIVE actions are good enough. So T-ara pretends to be in 1st league of KPOP. I like em less then 4Minute, 2NE1 adn After School but totally recomend to watch.

Bio:

A five member group, two members left before the group's debut, being replaced by three others. (The original five T-ara members trained for three years).

The group's agency began to released promotional pictures in July 2009, all different. Afterward, T-ara released their debut single "Guh-jit-mall"(Lies).

Most of T-ara (Eunjung, Soyeon, Hyomin and Jiyeon) was in a project group with Supernova, a six member male group. The digital single, "T.T.L (Time To Love)" has an electro sound and showed a different side of T-ara. The song topped various online charts. Later, T-ara and Supernova released TTL.Listen.2, which featured the members that were not in T.T.L.

Current members:
Eunjung(은정)
Birth Name: Ham Eunjung (함은정)
Birthday: December 12, 1988 (age 21)
Position: Leader, Lead Vocalist, Lead Rapper
Education: Dongguk University
Starred in music videos for FT Island. Including "Love Sick" and "Thunder + Only One Person"
Cameo in TV series Princess Hours
Starred in Gosa Death Bell in August 2008

Hyomin (효민)
Birth Name: Park Sun-young (박선영)
Birthday: May 30, 1989 (age 20)
Position: Lead Vocalist, Rapper
Education: Sinmok High School; Sungkyunkwan University
Starred in FT Island's music video for "Heaven"
Cameo in SG Wannabe's music video for "Unforgettable Breakup"
A member of G7(Girl 7) of KBS2TV's variety show Invincible Youth, which features some famous idol girl group members of the moment.

Soyeon (소연)
Birth Name: Park So-yeon (박소연)
Birthday: October 5, 1987 (age 22)
Position: Main Vocalist
Education: Anyang Art High School
Former SM Entertainment Trainee
One of the 11 trainees who trained to be in Girls' Generation, however was cut due to her age.

Boram (보람)
Birth name: Jeon Boram (전보람)
Birthday: March 22, 1986 (age 23)
Position: Vocalist
Education: Myongji College
Starred in Kebee's music video for "Feeling You"
Released solo singles
Father is Jeon Young-rok and mother is Lee Mi-yong

Q-ri (큐리)
Birth name: Lee Ji-hyeon (이지현)
Birthday: December 12, 1986 (age 22)
Position: Sub-Vocalist
Modeled before debut as a singer
She has acted in dramas
Featured in MBC's Drama "Queen Seondeok (TV series)"

Jiyeon (지연)
Birth Name: Park Ji-yeon (박지연)
Birthday: June 7, 1993 (age 16)
Position: Vocalist
Education: Seoul Arts High School; Hyehwa Girls' High School
Starred in SG Wannabe's music videos for "Cry" and "My Baby"
Cast in MBC's drama Soul
She was a model during pre-debut years and she once modeled with SHINee
Collaborated with SeeYa and Davichi on a single called "Women's Generation", soundtrack for a Korean drama, Cinderella Man.
She made a cameo in High Kick Through The Roof

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