Soyou

About Soyou

Who is it?: Singer
Birth Day: February 12, 1992
Birth Place: Jeju Island, South Korea, South Korean
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Occupation: Singer
Genres: K-pop R&B Ballad
Instruments: Vocals
Years active: 2010–present
Labels: Starship Entertainment
Associated acts: Sistar Starship Planet
Hangul: 소유
Revised Romanization: So-yoo
McCune–Reischauer: Soyoo

Soyou Net Worth

Soyou was born on February 12, 1992 in Jeju Island, South Korea, South Korean, is Singer. Kang Ji-hyun, well-known by her adopted stage name Soyou, is an award winning South Korean singer, best recognised as former member of ‘Sistar’, a South Korean girl group formed by ‘Starship Entertainment’. Professionally she was a licensed hairdresser and worked in a hair salon prior to making her debut with ‘Sistar’. The K-pop girl group started their journey in early 2010 featuring in magazine photo shoots and commercials and officially debuted with the song ‘Push Push’ on June of that year making their debut performance on South Korean television music program ‘Music Bank’. Apart from her musical pursuits with ‘Sistar’, Soyou has also made a mark as a solo artist with songs like ‘Should I Confess’, ‘Once More’ and ‘Tell Me’. She also sang duet songs with other artists among which the track ‘Some’ sung with Junggigo featuring Geek’s Lil Boi earned her several awards. Over the years she has appeared in several television variety shows, mostly as contestant including in ‘Star Diving Show Splash’ and ‘1 vs. 100’ among others. She remained MC of the ‘OnStyle’ aired variety show ‘Get It Beauty’ and co-host of ‘MBC Every1’ aired show ‘Wishing Star’ and featured as herself in the SBS aired reality documentary show ‘Law of the Jungle in New Zealand’.
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Biography/Timeline

1992

Soyou was born on February 12, 1992, in Jeju Island, South Korea. Before debuting, she was a licensed hairdresser and worked in a hair salon. Soyou was known as a Cube Entertainment trainee, who originally supposed to debut as a member of 4Minute. Soyou has said that she didn't make it into the group because she was lacking in many ways and was originally supposed to be in Sohyun's place. Instead, Soyou auditioned for Starship Entertainment, singing a cover of Navi's "On The Road", after spent training time and later debuted as a member of Sistar in June 2010. The group gained significant popularity after the release of their hit single "So Cool" in 2011.

2010

In August 2010, Soyou collaborated with Woo of J2 for the Soundtrack for the drama Gloria. In September, she also sang a Soundtrack for MBC's drama Playful Kiss. The song is titled "Should I Confess".

2012

In November 2012, Soyou sang a duet with hip-hop duo Geeks. The song "Officially Missing You, Too" is a remake of Tamia's song of the same title. It is a part of Geeks' project album, Re;Code Episode 1. She also collaborated with fellow label mates, K.Will and Boyfriend's Jeongmin, for Starship Planet's yearly holiday release, titled "White Love".

2013

In September 2013, it was revealed that Soyou together with Mad Clown would release a duet called "Stupid in Love on the 10th.

2014

In February 2014, Soyou and Junggigo released a duet called "Some".

2015

In January 2015, it was revealed that Soyou, together with Lee Honey and Kim Jungmin, would be the new MCs of beauty tip program Get It Beauty. The new MCs' first episode aired on February 4, 2015.

2017

After Sistar disbanded in June 2017, Soyou remained her career as soloists under Starship Entertainment. Soyou began her solo career with releasing remake single of Choi Sung-wons's The Blue Night of Jeju Island on September 7. She was feature with K.Will in his fourth album Part.1 Nonfiction b-side track titled "Let Me Here You Say", which released on September 26. She was released a collaboration track titled "Monitor Girl" with Geeks' Louie on October 26, it was also their second collaboration since "Officially Missing You, Too" in 2012. On November 16, Soyou released "I Still" with Sung Si-kyung as pre-release track for her upcoming solo album. On November 28, Soyou was confirmed to became a MC for new beauty program of JTBC titled SoyouXHani’s Beauty View, which start airs on December 28. On December 13, Soyou released the first part of her solo album titled RE:BORN with the single "The Night" featuring Rapper duo Geeks and was produced by Primary.