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SUNMI

Sunmi (선미) is a South Korean soloist under ABYSS Company. She was a member
of Wonder Girls under JYP Entertainment. She debuted as a solo artist on February
17, 2014.

Sunmi Official Fandom Name: Miya-ne (미야네)

Sunmi Official Fan Colors: Electric Red, Royal Purple and Bright Navy Blue
 Stage Name: Sunmi (선미)
Birth Name: Sun Mi (선미) but legally changed it to Lee Sun Mi (이선미)
Birthday: May 2, 1992
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Monkey
Height: 166 cm (5’5″)
Weight: 50 kg (110 lbs)
Blood Type: AB
MBTI Type: INFP
Twitter: @miyaohyeah / @official_sunmi_
Instagram: @miyayeah
Facebook: officialsunmi
V LIVE: SUNMI
Weibo: Sunmi

Sunmi Facts:
– She was born in Iksan, North Jeolla, South Korea.
– Her family includes her mother, stepfather, and two younger brothers.
– She attended Hwangnam Elementary School, Chung Dam Middle School and
Chung Dam High School during her childhood.
– She currently attends Dongguk University majoring in musical theater.
– Her nicknames are Mimi and Miya.
– She can speak English.
– She can play the bass.
– Her favorite color is purple.
– Her favorite artist is Drake.
– Her favorite actor is Robert Downey Jr.
– Sunmi’s legs are 110 cm. (Weekly Idol)
– She left temporarily during her music career in January of 2010 to pursue her
academic career.
– On June 24, 2015, she re-joined Wonder Girls.
– She received songwriting and producing credits for several Wonder Girls releases.
– She released her solo debut single “24 Hours”, and achieved an all-kill on music
charts.
– She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder sometime in 2015.
– After Wonder Girls disbanded, it was announced that she had left JYPE and had
signed with MakeUs Entertainment on March 14, 2017.
– On August 22, 2017 she released the single “Gashina”, which was a huge
success.
– She is a Planet Master on the survival show Girls Planet 999.
– Sunmi’s ideal type: Someone who is really good at something.
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Sunmi was born on May 2, 1992, in Iksan, North Jeolla, South Korea. She attended
Hwangnam Elementary School, Chungdam Middle School and Chungdam High School, and
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majored in musical theater at Dongguk University.
Sunmi revealed on a 2018 episode of Talkmon that she first decided to become a celebrity when
she was 12 after her father was admitted to hospital due to complications of pulmonary
tuberculosis. She was inspired by BoA, who debuted at the age of 13, and it was for her "the
fastest way to make money" in order to take care of her mother and two younger brothers. She
went to Seoul to audition and became a JYP Entertainment trainee at 14, though her father
passed away three months before her debut with Wonder Girls. She later adopted her
stepfather's surname Lee while in university and merged her original given name and surname,
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becoming Lee Sun-mi.

Musical style and themes: "Sunmi-pop"[edit]

Sunmi is known in the K-pop industry to have created her own musical style called
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"Sunmi-pop". It maintains K-pop's core influences such as pop, disco, rock, traditional
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Korean music plus retro and city pop elements mixed with Sunmi's own defined music identity.
The concept of "Sunmi-pop" was first mentioned by Sunmi herself on You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook
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at the start of 2018. Later in the year, in an interview for 1TheK's YouTube channel published
in September 2018, she revealed that her personal goal was to create her own music style
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named after herself. The interview was published at a time coinciding with the release of
Warning (her first extended play since her renewal as a solo artist) and she referred to the newly
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published EP as "a stepping stone from which [she] can build [her] own music style".
One week ahead of the release of her single "Noir", she mentioned her main goal during a
detailed interview for Billboard Korea, hoping that her musical style would become something
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that could inspire other artists. K-pop fans around the world started to acknowledge
Sunmi's own musical identity by using for the first time the word "Sunmi-pop" in a few tweets,
although the term became common on social media only after her fans used it to reply to a tweet
posted by Sunmi herself. Even though the tweet itself didn't mention the term, Korean media and
industry players started to officially recognize the word "Sunmi-pop" and implement it in articles
and variety shows for the first time to describe Sunmi's music, reporting that she created her own
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style by applying her abilities in self-writing, self-composing and ideating performances.
On May 30, 2019, in London, right before going up on the stage of the Warning World Tour, an
interviewer of the Korean media agency Yonhap News made known to Sunmi that a term to
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describe her musical style had been coined already as "Sunmi-pop". Thus the word
"Sunmi-pop" gained its officiality, and on August 21, 2019, her agency Abyss Company (then
known as Makeus Entertainment) also recognized the newly coined word by sharing an article
from Naver News which dedicated a section to "Sunmi genre, Sunmi-pop" in anticipation of her
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comeback with "Lalalay".