Jeon So-mi
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| Native name | 전소미 |
| Born |
Ennik Somi Douma March 9, 2001 Canada |
| Other names | Somi |
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| Musical career | |
| Genres | K-pop |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2015–present |
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| Associated acts | I.O.I |
| Website | somi |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeon So-mi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏn So-mi |
Jeon So-mi (born Ennik Somi Douma on March 9, 2001), better known by the mononym Somi, is a Canadian singer based in South Korea who finished first in Mnet's K-pop reality show Produce 101. She was a member of girl group I.O.I.
Somi has triple citizenship as she was born to a Dutch-Canadian father, Matthew Douma, and a Korean mother, Jeon Sun-hee. She also has a sister named Evelyn who is eight years younger than her. Somi was bullied as a child for being of mixed descent.
Somi is a taekwondo third-degree black belt holder but could not gain the fourth-degree like her father due to her age. In 2013, she appeared on the Children's Day Special of KBS2's Let's Go! Dream Team Season 2 as one of the representatives of Midong Elementary School's Taekwondo demonstration team, where she was paired with Park Joon-hyung. In August 2014, she, her mother and grand mother had short appearance on episode 187 of Hello Counselor. She also had a cameo role in 2014 film Ode to My Father along with her father and sister.
She graduated from Cheongdam Middle School on February 3, 2017 and will be attending Hanlim Multi Art School as a freshman.
Somi auditioned twice for JYP Entertainment before joining the company, and passed the audition after performing 2NE1's "Lonely". As a trainee, she appeared in the music video of Got7's "Stop Stop It" with fellow female trainees.
In May 2015, Somi participated in reality girl group survival show Sixteen and was pitted against 15 other trainees from JYP Entertainment to secure a spot in the company's new girl group, Twice. However, she was eliminated in the final round as she was not prepared yet and needed to grow more as a singer and dancer.
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