Kim Tae-yeon
| Kim Tae-yeon | |
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Taeyeon in November 2016
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| Born |
Kim Tae-yeon March 9, 1989 Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea |
| Residence | Seoul, South Korea |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | S.M. Entertainment |
| Associated acts | |
| Website | taeyeon |
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| Revised Romanization | Gim Tae-yeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim T'ae-yŏn |
Kim Tae-yeon (born March 9, 1989), more often credited only as Taeyeon, is a South Korean singer. Born in Jeonju, North Jeolla, Taeyeon was a trainee at S.M. Entertainment's Starlight Academy during middle school and debuted as a member of S.M. Entertainment's girl group Girls' Generation in 2007. Since then, she has risen to prominence thanks to the group's success on the Asian music scene and further participated in S.M. Entertainment's projects Girls' Generation-TTS and SM the Ballad. Aside from group activities, she has also recorded tracks for various television dramas and movies.
In October 2015, Taeyeon debuted as a solo artist with her first extended play, I. It peaked at number two on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart and spawned the single with the same name, which peaked atop the Gaon Digital Chart and has sold over one million digital copies. Her second extended play, Why (2016), debuted at number one on the Gaon Album Chart and yielded two South Korean top-ten singles "Starlight" and "Why".
Following her debut, she was awarded Best Female Artist at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. In 2016, Gallup Korea ranked her as the most popular idol of 2016; the year before she was ranked third. Also in 2016, Forbes Korea listed her among their Top 40 Power Celebrities of the year. Taeyeon is renowned for her vocal abilities: she was voted in a survey by 40 music industry officials as the best K-pop vocalist in October 2015, and as the best female vocalist by twenty music companies in April 2016.
Taeyeon was born on March 9, 1989 in Jeonju, South Korea. Her family consists of her parents, an older brother and a younger sister. Having believed that she was "only talented" at singing, Taeyeon harbored the dream of becoming a singer at a young age. During her second year in middle school, Taeyeon accompanied her father to SM Academy (a former music institution and auxiliary affiliation of S.M. Entertainment), to pursue vocal lessons. Although her father at the time did not encourage Taeyeon to become an entertainer, he was persuaded by the school’s president to give his daughter a chance after she recognized Taeyeon’s “clean” voice. During the next year, Taeyeon accompanied her father from their hometown to Seoul on every Sunday to receive her vocal lessons. She named BoA, Whitney Houston and Utada Hikaru as her pre-debut inspirations.
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