Heo Ga-yoon (born May 18, 1990), better known by the mononym Gayoon, is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of South Korean

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4Minute 4Minute (, often stylized as 4MINUTE) was a South Korean girl group formed in 2009 by Cube Entertainment. The members of the group were Son Ji-hyun, Nam Ji-hyun, Heo Ga-yoon, Jeon Ji-yoon, Hyuna, Kim Hyuna and Kwon So-hyun. The group was known ...

and its sub-group

2Yoon 2Yoon (Hangul: 투윤, commonly stylized as 2YOON) was the first and only sub-group of South Korean girl group 4Minute, formed by Cube Entertainment in 2013. The sub-group consisted of Gayoon and Jiyoon., translated to English at History Gay ...

Biography

Early life and education

Heo was born on May 18, 1990, in

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. She received second place at SM's 9th "Best Singer Contest" in 2005. She graduated from Dongduk Girl's High School. In 2008, Heo appeared in Mario's "I'm Yours" music video, with Seulong from 2AM. In 2011, she enrolled into

Dongguk University Dongguk University (Korean: 동국대학교, Hanja: 東國大學校) is a private, coeducational university in South Korea, fundamentally based on Buddhism. Established in 1906 as Myeongjin School (명진학교; 明進學校) by Buddhist pioneers ...

where she majored in film and theater. On September 17, 2014, Heo, along other stars, were appointed as ambassadors of Dongguk University. She graduated in 2016.

2009–2012: 4Minute and solo activities

Heo was chosen as a member of

in 2009. The five-member girl group official debuted on June 18, 2009, performing their debut single, " Hot Issue", on

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's ''

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''. On February 11, 2010, Heo was featured on the soundtrack for '' The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry'', singing a duet with Han Ye-ji in the song "One Two Three". On September 3, 2010, Ga-yoon was a featured artist in ''Sunny Sides album, "Bad Guy Good Girl" with the song "Bad Guy Good Girl". In October 2010, Heo Ga-yoon was one of twenty idols from different South Korean groups that recorded the song, "Let's Go", for the purpose of increasing public participation in the

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. She provided vocals along with labelmates

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and

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. Heo recorded "Wind Blow" for the soundtrack of MBC's '' My Princess''; the song was released on January 5, 2011. She also recorded "Shameless Lie" for the soundtrack of SBS' ''

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'', which was composed by Jadu and

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. The song was released on May 17, 2011. Heo made her acting debut on ''I'm a Flower Too'' with a cameo appearance as a high school student. On October 24, 2011 she released her OST song "I Think It Was a Dream" for KBS's ''

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''. Ga-yoon was also featured on Mario's song "Message" and promoted alongside him for that song. In 2012, Ga-yoon played Hyun Kyung in MBC's drama ''Light and Shadow''. In May 2012, Ga-yoon made an appearance along with group mate

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. Ga-yoon released a solo single on November 16, 2012. The song is called "My Love By My Side" and is a duet with

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's Ilhoon. On the October 21 episode of the live music show

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, Ga-yoon performed a new song for the ''

SBS Gayo Daejeon ''SBS Gayo Daejeon'' (, broadly ''SBS'' '' Battle of the Bands'') is an annual televised music festival that is broadcast by the Seoul Broadcasting System at the end of each year. The program first aired in 1997, and awards were given to musica ...

'' music spectacular. As part of

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, Ga-yoon released the charity song "Mermaid Princess" on December 26, 2012. The group would go on to perform the song in a one off performance during the year end SBS Gayo Daejeon show.

2013–2016: Disbandment of 4Minute

In 2014, HyunA, Ga-yoon, and Sohyun released the song "Only Gained Weight" for

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' tenth anniversary album in January. In September, Gayoon became an MC for the third season of

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's fashion program ''Style Log'', together with Beast's

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and Do Sang Woo. The season premiered on September 12. In 2015, Gayoon released an OST for SBS's ''

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'' called "Nightmare" together with

on August 18. In November, it was revealed that Gayoon will make her big screen debut with the movie ''Father, Daughter''. Gayoon,

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and

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will be acting as daughters. On June 13, 2016, Cube Entertainment announced that 4Minute decided to disband and the members were still in discussions on renewing their contracts. On June 15, 2016 Cube Entertainment officially announced that Jihyun, Gayoon, Jiyoon and Sohyun's contracts expired on June 14 and none of them had decided to renew with the company.

2016–present: Acting career

On October 14, it was announced that Gayoon would be joining BS Company as an actress.

Discography

Solo songs

Collaboration

Filmography

Film

Television series

Television show

References

External links

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