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 Lee Soon-kyu (Hangul: 이순규; born on May 15, 1989), who uses the stage name Sunny (Hangul: 써니), is an American-born Korean singer, dancer, DJ, MC, promotional model, actress and member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.

Biography

Sunny was born on May 15, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Kuwait while she was still an infant. Her family moved to South Korea around the time of the Gulf War. She shares the same birthday with her two older sisters (Lee Eun-kyu and Lee Jin-kyu). Her father was in the college band Hwaljooro with Bae Chul-soo. She is the niece of Lee Soo Man, the founder of SM Entertainment.

In 1998, Sunny entered Starlight Entertainment and became a trainee for five years before transferring to Starworld where she became a member of a duet called "Sugar" which never debuted. One of her older sisters was the manager for Sugar, but when the group disbanded, she became active in other parts of the music industry.

In 2007, Sunny was recommended by the singer Ayumi, who transferred to SM Entertainment. After several months of training under SM Entertainment, Sunny debuted as a member of Girls' Generation that same year.

Career

Singing career

Sunny has contributed to a couple of soundtracks as a solo artist, singing the theme song "You Don't Know About Love" for the SBS drama Working Mom, "Finally Now" for IPTV's Story of Wine and "Your Doll" for the SBS's Oh! My Lady.

She was featured on the Heading to the Ground soundtrack, singing a duet with Taeyeon in the song SarangInGulYo and another song titled Motion performed with the vocal line of the group.

She participated in the S.E.O.U.L. song project along with Super Junior's Kyuhyun, Leeteuk, Ryeowook, Sungmin, Siwon, Donghae and fellow group members Seohyun, Sooyoung, Jessica and Taeyeon.

Sunny was featured in Brown Eyed Girls's Miryo's track "I Love You, I Love You" from her first solo mini album, Miryo A.K.A JoHoney .^[5]

She also sang a duet with fellow labelmate Luna from f(x) in a song "It's Me" for the drama series To the Beautiful You.

In 2013, Sunny sang an OST titled "The 2nd Drawer" for MBC's "The Queen's Classroom." She also took part in SBS Gayo Daejun: Friendship Project "You Are A Miracle" along with fellow group members Seohyun,Yuri, Tiffany and various artists.