2NE1 (Hangul: íŽė ëė; RR: tu-aeniwon; pronounced "to anyone"[2] or "twenty-one"[3]) is a South Korean hip hop/pop girl group formed by YG Entertainment in 2009. 2NE1 consists of 4 members: CL, Minzy, Dara, and Bom. The group's name 2NE1 stands for "New Evolution of the 21st Century".[4]
First appearing in "Lollipop", a commercial campaign with Big Bang for LG Telecom, their debut single "Fire" was released on May 6, 2009. Since then, they have released one extended play, 2NE1, and one studio album, To Anyone. "Fire", "I Don't Care", "Try to Follow Me", and "Go Away" have all hit number one in South Korea.
member profile:
1. CL (Leader)
CL became leader of the spanking YG gang 2NE1. 2NE1 was announced in 2009 and debuted in "Lollipop" with Sandara Park, Park Bom, and Gong Min-ji. The song gained immediate star, but questions were still raised as to whether the arrange can live on on its own. Following "Lollipop," the arrange released their officer entrance single "Fire," and reached the run to individual place in lieu of the month of May. "I Don't Care" did the same and launched the entrance extended take part in 2NE1 to run to individual.
After the arrange finished "I Don't Care" promotions, the arrange went on a temporary hiatus. The members released their own solo and collaboration singles. First, Dara released "Kiss" which featured CL. The song finished on run to five on the Gaon monthly. After, Bom released "You and I," and at that moment Lee and Minzy collaborated in lieu of "Please Don't Go," the lowest performing of the three singles. However, it still charted on run to six by the close of November. Hip February, the arrange as a entire released "Follow Me" which took run to individual on February 13, 2010. Hip September the same day, the arrange released their principal ample span LP To Anyone, anchored by promotional singles "Clap Your Hands," "Go Away," "Can't Nobody," "It Hurts." The LP went on to vend 100,000 copies in five days.
On January 27, 2011, it was reported to facilitate CL's vacation to Paris might bear been to discuss her solo career. A YG Entertainment connection is believed to bear avowed to facilitate she is to launch her solo career alongside 2NE1's comeback.
Name: Lee Chae Rin
English Name: Chae Lee | Faith Lee
Stage Name: CL
Position: Leader | Rapper | Vocal
D.O.B.: February 26, 1991
Height: 162cm (approx. 5'4")
Blood Type: A
Religion: Catholic
Hobbies: Coloring | Drawing | Writing Lyrics
Favorite Color(s): Black | White
Educational Background: -
Specialties: Dancing | Rapping | Singing | Japanese | French | English
First Stage Performance: SBS Gayo Daejun last December 29, 2007 with YG Family
2. Sandara Park
Sandara Park is born in Busan, South Koean at 12 November 1984. She also known as Dara. Dara is a South Korean singer, actress, television host also a model. She is best known as being a member of the Korean female group 2NE1, along with CL, Minzy and Park Bom
Dara is recognized as 2ne1's fresh vocal since of her sweet and refreshing voice. When she was asked in an interview on the order of after did she famine to be a singer? And I beg your pardon? Type of singer? Park candidly answered to facilitate after she was in 2nd grade, Seo-Taiji debuted. It was at that moment to facilitate she theory to facilitate she had be on television too. That was the start of her nightmare. Sandara moreover cited Uhm Jung-hwa, as the individual she looks up to since she is pretty, sexy and cute all rolled into individual package. She wanted to be like her in lieu of she is able to replace her look in lieu of all performance, states Dara.
Name: Sandara Park (Sandara Bak)
Nickname: Sandy, Dara, Kiray, Krung-krung
Profession: Actress, singer, dancer and model
Birthdate: 12 Nov 1984
Birthplace: Busan, South Korea
Height: 162cm
Weight: 40kg
Star sign: Scorpio
Blood type: A
Talent agency: YG Entertainment
3. Park Bom
Bom is main vocal of the YG Entertainment group 2NE1 (aka SISTA or 21 or To Anyone or 2NewEvolution1) with other members like CL, Minzy and Sandara. She is called by fans as Bom. Her English name is Jenny.
She is fluent in Korean, English and Japanese. She can also play piano, flute and cello.
Park Bom is attended "Lesley University" to major Psychology, but later transferred to "Berklee College of Music" (in Boston) to study music, but currently on leave of absence from Berkely College of Music in the U.S to pursue a career as an entertainer. It took her three years of constant knocking on YG's door to finally be accepted as a trainee. She as been training with YG Entertainment since 2005 and was noted to debut as a solo singer and releaase a single in March 2007 which got further pushed into May.
Since then, YG has changed gears and has now put her in 2NE1 with fellow members Gong Minji, CL and Sandara park. She was initially known as a R&B pop singer but because of her Samsung "Anystar" commercial where she perform her great dancing skills, she became expected as a "dance singer".
Today, Bom is main vocal of the YG Entertainment group 2NE1 aka SISTA or 21 or To Anyone or 2NewEvolution1
She first showed her voice to the world though Big Bang's songs "We belong Together" and "Forever with you." It was just a featuring but to her, it was as if she was the main singer. Normally, trainees train for about 3-5 years but it was as if she speed up and debuted early.
Park Bom, having Beyonce as her role model, will be letting out her album around February. She will show R&B music, pop and hiphop. "It was an honor to be picked as one of the models for Anystar, but how the most important thing is being approved as a good singer. Is my standard too high if I said I want to be the Korean Beyonce?"
Name: Park Bom (Jenny Park)
English Name: Jenny Park
Birth Date: March 24, 1984
Height: 165 cm (5'4")
Blood Type: AB
Education: Attended "Lesley University" to major Psychology, but later transferred to "Berklee College of Music" (in Boston) to study music.
Religion: Christian
Talents: English, Japanese, Piano, Flute, Chelo
Hobbies: Music
Favorite Colors: Green, Pink, Red
4. Minzy (magnae)
Gong Min-ji who well known as Minzy is a member of Korean Music Female Group, 2NE1 which signed to YG Entertainment. Minzy was born in Seoul (South Korea) at 18 January 1994. Minzy, is a South Korean celebrity, pop singer, rapper, and dancer. Her debuted in 2009 with group 2NE1 along with CL, Sandara and Park Bom
Minzy was found by YG Entertainment. It was her video of her move and dancing that was uploaded onto the internet, and got popular and praises for her talent to dance. Because of her rising popularity in the internet, YG contacted and recruited her. She was placed into girl group 2NE1 along with three other members, CL, Sandara and Park Bom. 2NE1 debuted in 2009 with "Lollipop," is a collaboration with Big Bang, they label mates in YG Entertainment, when Minzy was 15 years old. The song become popular and reached number one on the Gaon Charts, but questions were raised about whether the group could survive on its own. In May the same year, the group had their official debut with the single "Fire," that reached number one again along with follow-up promotional single "I Don't Care." The mini-album 2NE1 went on to sell over 100,000 copies.
* Stage Name: Minzy
* Real Name: Gong Min Ji
* Birthdate: January 18, 1994 (1994-01-18)
* Blood Type: O
* Height: 162cm
* Languages: Chinese, Japanese
* Religion: Christian
* Hobbies: Listening to music, Writing lyrics, Studying production
* Favorite Color: Pink
* Education: Suhkang Elementary School
