Taeyeon

Kim Taeyeon born March 9 1989 is a South Korean singer and actress and member of Girls Generation At an early age she came to believe that her first and only talent was singing and was eager to hone her gift in order to pursue a career in music While in middle school she began taking voice lessons through a school affiliated with a major music firm SM Entertainment After winning a talent competition among the schools students in 2004 Taeyeon was offered a contract with SM and following grueling training in music and stagecraft she was made a member of SMs allfemale pop group Girls Generation in 2007 With the release of the song Gee in 2009 the group became famous in South Korea and expanded their fan base into Japan and the United States As their popularity rose Taeyeon was increasingly seen as their key member and she was soon appearing on television specials and stage presentations apart from her bandmates She was also the focus of two spinoff acts TTS launched in 2012 teamed her with fellow Girls Generation members Tiffany and Seohyun and she joined the lineup of SM the Ballad a vocal group that focused on ballads and traditional standards in 2014 As Taeyeons star continued to rise she launched her solo career in 2015 with an EP titled I The EP was one of the years topselling releases and February 2017 saw the release of her longawaited first solo album My Voice She closed the year with a holiday album This Christmas Winter Is Coming Her sophomore fulllength Purpose arrived in October 2019 and included the hit single Four Seasons The album reached number two in South Korea and cracked the Top Ten on the Billboards World Albums chart Her fourth Koreanlanguage EP What Do I Call You arrived in December 2020