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Seo Yu-na (
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: 서유나; born December 30, 1992), better known by the mononym Yuna, is a South Korean singer, actress and yoga instructor. She is a former member of the South Korean
girl group A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...
AOA and its sub-groups,
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and AOA Cream.


Early life

Seo Yu-na was born on December 30, 1992. She began playing the piano when she was seven years old, causing her to take interest in becoming a singer as an adult. At the age of 18, she traveled to
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alone after getting consent from her parents. She transferred schools and stayed at her uncle's house while she went to auditions and practised singing. Her younger sister Yu-ri made her debut in 2014 with girl group
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under Asia Bridge Entertainment, adopting the stage name "Seoyul".


Career


Career with AOA

On July 30, 2012, Yuna made her debut as a member of AOA on Mnet's ''
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'' with their debut single album, ''
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'' and the title track "Elvis". AOA has released three EPs and nine singles as of June 22, 2015. She is part of AOA's subunit "AOA Black". In 2015, AOA traveled to Hainan where they filmed ''One Fine Day'', a variety program in which idols/idol groups go on a "healing" vacation. They were the seventh idol group to appear on the program(followed by Girl's Day) Yuna is also part of sub-unit AOA Cream together with Shin Hye-jeong and Kim Chanmi. The sub-unit released their first teaser on February 1, 2016. The music video teaser for title track ''
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'' was released on February 4, 2016. AOA Cream released their title track together with the MV on February 12, 2016. On January 1, 2021, Yuna's contract expired with FNC Entertainment, and she left the company.


As actress

Yuna has also had a successful, yet lesser known acting career, as she has played a lead role in the Japanese Musical "Summer Snow" in 2013, as well as playing another lead role in the comedic Korean web-drama "Prince's Prince" in February 2015. On October 20, 2013, Yuna sang for the OST "I'm Ok" for KBS's TV series ''
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''. The song "I'm OK" is the theme song for the main character Na Mi-rae. In October 2016 it was announced that she will be part of the cast of a new web-drama ''Hot and Sweet'' playing Joon Young, a part-time food worker. The drama will premiere on October 20 and run for 8 episodes. Yuna also released 2 songs for the drama, one "Hot and Sweet" a duet with Choi Min-hwan and "Everything" a solo song.매콤달콤 OST 최민환 (FT 아일랜드), 유나 (AOA)
/ref> In 2016, Yuna has also been cast in another new web-drama 'My Old Friend'. The drama will be aired starting in mid November for 5 episodes through Naver TVCast. In 2017, Yuna was cast in the romantic comedy series ''Single Wife'', scheduled for August 23. In June 2017, she sang the theme song for drama ''
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'', the song is called "Another You". Yuna sung the OST for tvN's ''
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'' together with
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, the song is called "If You Were Me" and it was released on January 28, 2018. In 2019 Yuna together with Shin Hye-jeong and Kim Chanmi will take part in Lifetime's reality program ''AOA DaSaDanang Heart Attack Danang'' where the members will travel to Danang, Vietnam for an adventure. In July 2019, Yuna was cast in web drama ''Love Formula 11M'' as So-jin.


As Yoga instructor

After her departure from AOA, Yuna gave an update on her social media and revealed she had transformed into a yoga instructor and living a new life outside of the entertainment industry.


As songwriter, producer and backing singer

In December 2019, FNC Entertainment confirms that Yuna used her pseudonym E.NA to become a backing singer for Shin Yu-na's parts for
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's debut single "Dalla Dalla"; she also had credits in single "Heart Shaker" by
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. She is also credited as the backing singer for
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's single "Butterfly".


Discography


Soundtrack appearances and solo performances


Filmography


TV series


Musical theatre


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