Profil Hyoyeon

Kim Hyoyeon
Birth name	Kim Hyo-yeon (김효연)
Also known as	Dancing Queen Hyo-Rang
Born	September 22, 1989 (age 22) Incheon, South Korea
Genres	K-pop
Occupations	singer, dancer, model, actress,rapper
Years active	2007–present
Labels	SM Entertainment
Associated acts	Girls' Generation SM Town
Website	Official website

 

Biography

Hyoyeon was born in Incheon, South Korea on September 22, 1989. She is ambidextrous and grew up with her parents and her younger brother Kim Min Gu. She auditioned for SM Entertainment at the age of 11 through SM 2000 Casting System. Hyoyeon herself said, she had no intentions to audition, but her mother was a fan of SM Entertainment's boy band H.O.T. and brought her to the offices in the hopes, perhaps, of seeing them. She then danced in her audition show. In 2004, she was sent to study Mandarin Chinese in Beijing, China alongside with Choi Siwon. Her Chinese name is 孝渊 (Xiàoyuān) in simplified Chinese characters.

Career

Pre-debut and training background

Hyoyeon's formal dance training started in elementary school. At her neighborhood's small hip-hop school, she learned Hip-Hop, Jazz and Latin dance. In 1999, she enrolled in Winners Dance School, a famous dance school in South Korea specializing in popping, locking, animation and various other hip-hop styles. At the school she met Miss A's Min, with whom she formed the dance team Little Winners (리틀위너스). The duo performed at various showcases and was spotlighted by HipHoper.com in 2004.

She received dance instruction from the Electric Boogaloos and top choreographers such as Kim Hye Rang, Poppin Seen, Kwang Hoo (aka Crazy Monkey), Poppin DS, Kwon Seok-Jin (aka Locking Khan) and Black Beat's Shim Jae Won. She also worked with one of Justin Timberlake's choreographers and a few foreign teachers.

She was BoA's silhouette dancer during a performance at M.net KM Music Festival 2005. In 2007, she teamed up with Jae Won for a dance collaboration to "Anonymous".

Solo activities

On March 7, 2010 she played a cameo role on SBS Oh My Lady! starring Choi Siwon and Chae Rim with fellow members Jessica andSooyoung.

On October 17th, 2011 it was confirmed that Hyoyeon would be joining for the second season of Invincible Youth 2, a Korean reality show alongside with Sunny.

Discography

Filmography

Drama

Year	Title	Role
2008	Unstoppable Marriage	as BoolGwangDong (seven princess) (cameo)
2010	Oh My Lady!	Herself (cameo)

Television Series

Year	Title	Role
2011-2012	Invincible Youth 2	Herself