Kim Tae-yeon (born March 9, 1989) is a South Korean singer, TV presenter, dancer, actress and promotional model. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation, and she is a member of the South Korean group S.M. The Ballad.
Biography
Tae-yeon was born in Jeonju, South Korea on March 9, 1989. She is trained in singing and dancing. Taeyeon was discovered in the 2004 SM Entertainment's 8th Annual Best Contest winning Best Singer 1st Place & Grand Award in the contest.[4][5] In 2004, she was featured in The One's song "You Bring Me Joy" before debuting as a Girls' Generation member.[6] She is a 2008 graduate of Jeonju Art High School and was awarded the school's Lifetime Achievement Award.[7]
Career
Solo career
Tae-yeon has contributed to a couple of soundtracks as a solo artist, singing the theme song "Manyageh" ("만약에", "If") for the KBS2 drama Hong Gil Dong and "Deullinayo" ("들리나요", "Can You Hear Me") from the Beethoven Virus soundtrack. "If" became popular[clarification needed] on various online charts, around the same time "Baby Baby" was released,[8] while "Deullinayo" received the YEPP Popularity award at the 2008 Golden Disk Awards.[9]
She also sang "SarangInGulYo" ("사랑인걸요", "It is love") with Sunny for the drama Heading to the Ground, and the "S.E.O.U.L." song with members of Super Junior and Girls' Generation to promote South Korea.[10] She also sang the song for Caribbean Bay / "Cabi" with her fellow members Jessica, Seohyun, Tiffany and Sunny with 2PM.[11]
She sang a duet song with her mentor The One, called "Like a Star" which was released on November 17, 2010.[12] She also sang in the soundtrack of SBS's Athena:Goddess of War, with the song "I Love You". The song was released on 13 December 2010. The song took number 1 in some hit charts.[13]
On January 31, 2011, Tae-yeon sang a duet with Kim Bum-soo, titled "Different". The song also took number 1 not long after it was released.[14]
On March 28, 2012, Tae-yeon sang and released "Missing You Like Crazy", for the Korean Melodrama The King 2 Hearts
starring Lee Seung-gi and Ha Ji- won, which took Number 1 on all charts
such as Melon, Naver, Mnet, Soribada, Bugs, Olleh and Daum, achieving
an 'All Kill' on the online charts on the day of its release.[15]
Tae-yeon had previously declined the offer to sing the OST for the
drama due to her busy overseas schedules with Girls' Generation, but
later took it up as she had made a promise with PD Lee Pil-ho, the
producer of "Beethoven's Virus", for which Tae-yeon also sang the OST.
PD Lee Pil-ho also stated that when he had first received the synopsis
for "The King 2 Hearts", he had made special requests to only Tae-yeon,
stating that she was the only singer who could sing the OST for the
drama. In 2012, Tae-yeon also sang an OST, "Closer", for the drama To the Beautiful You starring by fellow label-mates Choi Minho (from SHINee) and Sulli (from f(x)). She also sang "And One" for SBS's drama 'That Winter, The Wind Blows', which was released on 13 March 2013.[16] The OST debuted No.1 on the Billboard Korea K-pop Hot 100 chart. [17]
On January 4, 2014, Tae-yeon uploaded on her Instagram account a link to one video of her personal YouTube channel, in which she sings a cover of Justin Bieber's "Be Alright".[18]
Acting career
On May 7, 2010, she had her musical debut as the main female role in Midnight Sun, which is based on the Japanese novel "Taiyō no uta" by Aya Denkawa.[19][20] The musical is about Kaoru Amane, a 17-year-old girl, who suffers from Xeroderma pigmentosum,
which forbids her from going out during daytime. She keeps her hopes up
by writing songs and singing every night at a train station. Taeyeon
received good press for her performance.[21] Furthermore, she learned to play guitar for her musical performance.[5]
Taeyeon and her band mate Seohyun were cast as voice actors for the Korean dub of the 3D animation Despicable Me. Taeyeon dubbed the voice of the character Margo, while Seohyun's role is Margo's younger sister Edith.[22]
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