Lee Soomi
| Soomi | |
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Soomi 2016
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| Background information | |
| Native name | 수미 |
| Birth name | Lee Soomi |
| Born |
March 3, 1989 Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea |
| Genres | K-pop |
| Occupation(s) | |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | MBK Entertainment (2009–2012), D-Business Entertainment (2013–present) |
| Associated acts | |
Lee Soomi (Hangul: 이수미; born March 3, 1989) is a South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and actress. She is a former member of girl groups SeeYa, F-ve Dolls, and coed group Coed School.
Soomi audition for "SBS's Young Jae Yook Sung Project" in 2001 and won but never became a trainee. Soomi went to the Korea Aerospace University and graduated in Aeronautical Science & Flight Operations.
She was in Seeya in 2009 after Nam Gyuri left the group to pursue a solo career. She was added on October of 2009 and released a mini album with the group called Rebloom. She stated that she will work hard to become like her Seeya unnies. During her time with Seeya they released a song with members of T-ARA and Davichi called Wonder Women as a single. She was featured in the video as well.
On July 23, 2010 she was dropped out from Seeya to become the leader of the new group Coed School. That consisted of 4 girls and 6 guys which made up 10. She stated in an interview that it was hard for her to become a leader for a group, when she only was a maknae for the group Seeya. She also stated the hair changes from when in Seeya and Coed. Also she lost weight about a total of 4 kg. She stated "I danced since my days with Seeya, so there wasn't a lot of pressure. But the 20 hour rehearsal times really tired me out. I lost about 4 kg." Also that her genre from previous balled and on too Pop music was something she enjoyed because she loved both. She also stated "I liked acting cute and being loved as the maknae when I was with my Seeya unnis. It's fun with Coed because we're all similar in age, but since I'm the leader, I have to earn to take more responsibility and manage a lot more things." she was very responsible and manage to bring the best to Co-ed School. Soomi was on the drama Miss Ripley as the role of Jo Eun Bum. At the same time she couldn't be on the show with her group F-ve Dolls who were on the drama The Greatest Love because the filming was at the same time.
By mid 2011 Coed School split and became subunits and Soomi was placed in F-ve Dolls with the other 3 girls and one new one, She kept her leader status for F-ve Dolls from being the leader in Co-Ed. By 2013 Co-ed was no longer active and Soomi remained in F-ve Dolls until 2012 and wanted to become solo. She left Core Contents Media along with Heo Chanmi the same year.
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