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Biography

Kim Yeonji was raised in

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in South Korea, where she attended Pyeongchon Management High School. Yeonji entered the Postmodern Music Department at

Kyung Hee University Kyung Hee University (abbreviated to KHU) (Hangul: 경희대학교; Hanja: 慶熙大學校) is a private research university in South Korea with campuses in Seoul and Suwon. Founded in 1949, it is widely regarded as one of the best universities i ...

in 2008. Yeonji returned to Kyung Hee University's Postmodern Music Department as a full-time student in 2011, focusing on absorbing the department's orientation toward jazz, blues, and cross-cultural music. In 2013, Yeonji graduated from Kyung Hee University with an unusually high

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for an entertainment figure after having submitted a portfolio of musical arrangements and a thesis on the songs in which she had participated.

Career

Predebut

Yeonji won awards in various singing and dancing talent contests and was eventually scouted by the record label and management company GM (currently

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). After more than a year of training under the label's auspices, Yeonji debuted as part of the

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Pop group SeeYa in 2006.

SeeYa (2006–2011)

Yeonji debuted as lead vocalist of the group SeeYa in 2006. The group officially disbanded on January 30, 2011, after the group final performance on Inkigayo.

Solo career

At the end of 2011, Yeonji appeared during the

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as actor

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's duet partner for a performance of the Lee So-ra song "Proposal." In early 2012, Yeonji contributed the song "Run" to the vocal music series M/Project, and the song "Love is Right" to the original soundtrack of the

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miniseries

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. In May 2012, the Modern K Music Academy, a prominent K-Pop "incubating" school, announced that Yeonji would be participating as an invited vocal instructor for its summer K-Pop training program in

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, Canada. In March 2013, Lee Jinsung of

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announced through Twitter that he had collaborated on a duet song with Yeonji, which he described as "memorable because it was work with a pure person who loves music so much." The song, "Hurting but Happy," was written and produced by Lee and released in March as a preview track from Monday Kiz's fifth LP album. Yeonji contributed the song "In My Eyes" to the SBS miniseries

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() in July 2013.

Discography

Singles

Soundtrack appearances

Awards

References

External links

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