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Hyuna (born Kim Hyun Ah; June 6, 1992) is a South Korean dance-pop singer. She is a member of the girl group 4minute and former member of Wonder Girls.

Kim Hyuna was born on June 6, 1992 in Seoul, South Korea. She attended Choong Chun Middle School and Korea High School of Music and Arts and currently attends Konkuk University majoring in art culture. She has a tattoo on her left shoulder that says "My mother is the heart, that keeps me alive". [1]

2007–2008: Debut, The Wonder Begins, and The Wonder Years

In 2007, Hyuna made her debut with the Wonder Girls, a girl group managed by JYP Entertainment, with the single "Irony" as the group's main rapper.[1] She left the group in July,[2] when she was removed by her parents due to their concern over her health—in particular, chronic gastroenteritis and fainting spells.[3]

While with the Wonder Girls she was a part of the group's television shows MTV Wonder Girls (season 1) & MTV Wonder Girls (season 2). From May 12, 2007 she was a co-host together with Sohee (Wonder Girls) & Brian Joo at Show! Music Core until June 30, 2007 when she left the group.

In 2008 she was transferred over to JYP Entertainment's sister label, Cube Entertainment.[4] After joining Cube Entertainment, Hyuna joined girl group 4minute. Announced in May 2009, the group debuted with their single, "Hot Issue" on 15 June.[5][6]
[edit] 2009: Collaborations

Hyuna collaborated with Lee Gi Kwang for the song "2009" from his debut album First Episode: A New Hero and she also appeared in his first single "Dancing Shoes's"music video which was released on March 30, 2009. On August 13, 2009 she rap for Navi's song "Wasteful Tears" and she also appeared in the MV for this song. Hyuna also appeared in Mighty Mouth's music video for "Love Class" with Uee from After School.

On August 18, 2009 Hyuna featured for Brave Brothers together with Mabus, Red Roc, Basick & M for his song "Bittersweet".

She became part of the "Dream Team Girl Group" for Samsung's Anycall called "4 Tomorrow". Their first digital single "Tomorrow" was released on October 6, 2009, and the official music video was released on October 12, starring actor Lee Dong Gun, who will also star in each member's individual drama version of the video.[7] Hyuna's version was released on October 27, 2009. The Dream Team was composed of Hyuna (4minute), Seung Yeon (Kara), Uee (After School) & Gain (Brown Eyed Girls).

Hyuna was also part of Invincible Youth, a South Korean variety show. However, she left the show due to some scheduling conflicts with her group's overseas promotions on 11 June 2010.
[edit] 2010: Solo debut and controversy
Hyuna Perform in 2010 Mnet 20's choice

On January 4, 2010, Hyuna released the single "Change" which debuted high on various online charts while also becoming a top search term.[8] Hyuna commenced promotions for "Change" .[8][9] The song reached #14 on the Gaon 2010 digital yearly charts with 2,469,354 copies sold.

On January 14, 2010, the "Change" music video was flagged with a 19+ rating due to Hyuna's provocative dancing, citing it to be inappropriate to minors. Cube Entertainment stated that the music video would be re-edited and submitted for approval. Broadcast stations SBS, however, announced the music video would be restricted for a 15+ audience instead, and MBC announced that it would still be viewable for all audiences.[10] Her "Change" promotions ended in March 2010.

On February 10, released a digital single, "Love Parade" featuring T-MAX's member Park Yun Hwa.

On April 16, Hyuna released another digital single, "Outlaw in the Wild (Korean: 황야의 무법자)", featuring Nassun and was produced by E-Tribe.[11][12]

In the month of August the "Change" music video was made available to view on Virgin Media's music on demand service within the UK. Hyuna is featured for FADDY ROBOT FOUNDATION together with Beast`s Jun Hyung, Outsider, Verbal Jint, Mighty Mouth’s Ssangchu, Vasco and Jico, any profit from this song will be helping the society. The Song was released on September 17, 2010.

On October 14, 2010 Hyuna played a cameo role in thriller movie Late Night FM along with fellow band member Ji Hyun.[13]

She sang a duet song with G.NA called "Say You Love Me", in which she wrote/composed the rap lyrics of the song and became a hot topic in Korean portal sites. The duet song was released on November 10, 2010.
[edit] 2011-Present: 2nd Solo Single

CEO Hong Seungsong of Cube Entertainment announched that Hyuna will make a comeback with her 2nd Solo Single in May. He stated that "Hyuna will have her second solo song which is expected to be released in May. Though this time, fans should expect a radical change in her concept."