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. After the departure of Lala, the group released their first EP, ''Love Is'', in 2017. The name was derived from

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Members

* Choi Cho (; born May 10, 1992) - vocals * Kim (; born May 18, 1993) - vocals

Past member

* Lala (; November 15, 1990) - vocals

Career

Rubber Soul debuted in 2015 as a joint project of record labels

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, Happy Tribe Entertainment, and With HC. They performed their first single, "Life," for the first time on February 10, 2015, on SBS MTV's ''The Show''. This marked their official debut and the group continued promotions on various shows for a few months with both "Life" and their side-track "Lonely Friday" with features Mad Soul Child's Jinsil. Rubber Soul continued to promote their singles via street performances in Hongdae, as well as performing lives of unreleased songs such as "Choice" and "Beautiful Woman". In February, they took part in SNL Korea 6 as guest members on episode 1. The trio also participated in a pictorial in Dazed magazine in April. The group performed alongside other Korean artists such as

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and others in September for the Asian Music Network festival. In October, 2015, the group participated alongside Giriboy, Black Nut and

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in a "1st Look" pictorial for Vans and the winter collection "Designed for the Elements".

Solo activities

Kim participated in the reality show ''

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'' as a contestant starting with episode 6. Kim was also a contestant on ''

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Discography

Extended play

Singles

References

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