Cho Kyu-hyun
| Cho Kyu-hyun | |
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Kyuhyun during Super Show 5 in Manila
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| Native name | 조규현 |
| Born |
Cho Kyu-hyun February 3, 1988 Seoul, South Korea |
| Alma mater | Kyung Hee University |
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| Musical career | |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2006–present |
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| Website | Kyuhyun's Website |
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| Hangul | 조규현 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Gyu-hyeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kyu-hyŏn |
Cho Kyu-hyun (born February 3, 1988), better known mononymously as Kyuhyun, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is best known as a member of South Korean boy group Super Junior, its sub-groups Super Junior-K.R.Y., Super Junior-M and a former member of the South Korean ballad group S.M. the Ballad. He is one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps.
Kyuhyun was born in Nowon, a district in Seoul. Kyuhyun has an older sister named Cho Ara. Kyuhyun's father is in the education business and owns a school. Kyuhyun's mother also runs an art academy and a guesthouse called 'MOM House' located at Myeongdong. Kyuhyun was initially urged to study law and would have been a lawyer if he had not become a singer. His original plans were abandoned once Kyuhyun joined a band in high school, where he became more interested in music and singing. His father was against his dream of singing but allowed him to do so if he did well on his college entrance exams and was accepted into a university. Kyuhyun enrolled in Kyunghee University with a major in Post-Modern Music. He received his bachelor's degree in 2013 and is currently enrolled in the university's master's program. Kyuhyun won third place at the Chin Chin Singing Competition in 2005.
Kyuhyun officially debuted in May 2006 as part of Super Junior, formerly "Super Junior 05", the first generation of the 12-member rotational boy band, who had debuted in November 2005 with the single, "TWINS (Knock Out)". In March 2006, SM Entertainment began to recruit new members for the next generation. However, plans changed and the company declared a halt in forming future Super Junior generations. Following his addition to the group, they dropped the suffix "05" and became officially credited as Super Junior.
Kyuhyun made his first appearance as a part-time model of Super Junior in a news broadcast on 23 May 2006 where the group introduced their new single, U. His debut performance was on 27 May at SBS's I-Concert with "U", which was also the group's first comeback performance as a permanent group. The CD single "U" was released on 7 June 2006 and was their most successful single until the release of "Sorry, Sorry" in March 2009.
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