Victoria Song
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Victoria at Sohu Fashion Awards in December 2015
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | (traditional) |
| Chinese name | (simplified) |
| Pinyin | Sòng Qiàn (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Sung3 Sin6 (Cantonese) |
| Ethnicity | Han |
| Born |
February 2, 1987 Qingdao, Shandong, China |
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| Genre(s) | |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sòng Qiàn |
| Bopomofo | ㄙㄨㄥ˙ㄑㄧㄢ˙ |
| Wade–Giles | Sung Ch'ien |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Sòng Ciàn |
| other Mandarin | |
| Xiao'erjing | ﺻْﻮ ﺛِﯿًﺎ |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | Son去 Tsie去 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Sung Sihn |
| Jyutping | Sung3 Sin6 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Sòng Chhiàn |
Song Qian (Chinese: 宋茜; pinyin: Sòng Qiàn; Korean: 빅토리아, 송천; Japanese: ビクトリア, 宋茜; born February 2, 1987), better known as Victoria Song or Victoria, is a Chinese singer, dancer, actress and model based in South Korea and China. She debuted in 2009 as a member of South Korean girl group f(x).
In 2010, Victoria gained fame as part of We Got Married Season 2, as well as being a cast member of KBS's Invincible Youth. That year, she won the Popularity Award at the MBC Entertainment Awards. She also began to take up acting in China, playing lead roles in dramas such as When Love Walked In, Beautiful Secret, Ice Fantasy and the film My New Sassy Girl and in 2012, won the Best New Actress Award at the China National Drama Awards.
Victoria is very popular in China, with over 20 million followers on Weibo, ranking fourth most followed K-pop celebrity as of April 2015. She was ranked No. 80 on The 2013 Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces and first on Sohu's 2011 Entertainment World's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 2014, she won the "2014 Goddess of Asia" poll with 579,298 votes. She was also named one of the top ten most popular celebrities on Baidu, ranking at No. 7.
Song Qian was born in Qingdao, China. She left her hometown at a young age to study Chinese traditional dance at the Beijing Dance Academy. After her high school graduation, she was accepted to the Beijing Dance Academy and majored in Chinese ethnic dance. In September 2007, Victoria was scouted by an SM employee at a Beijing dance competition and later joined the company. She passed her audition for SM Entertainment and began preparing for her acting and modeling career in South Korea. She trained for two years at SM before her debut, from 2007 to 2009. Victoria's first media appearance was for a Spris commercial in early 2008 with South Korean singer-actor Lee Joon-gi. In April 2008, she modeled for Samsung Anycall in a music video with Korean actor-singer Rain. She had also filmed a tourism commercial "Hi, Seoul" with TVXQ and Super Junior. In May 2008, she appeared in Shinee's music video for the song Replay.
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