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Mino at SIA 2016.
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Native name | 송민호 |
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Song Min-ho March 30, 1993 Yongin, South Korea |
Other names | Mino |
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Years active | 2011–present |
Labels | YG Entertainment |
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Website | Website |
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Hangul | 송민호 |
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Hanja | 宋旻浩 |
Revised Romanization | Song Min-ho |
McCune–Reischauer | Song Min-ho |
Song Min-ho (Hangul: 송민호; born March 30, 1993), better known by the stage name Mino, is a South Korean rapper and member of the boy group Winner, signed under YG Entertainment.
He appeared in the television series The Strongest K-POP Survival and Show Me the Money 4, where he finished as series runner-up. Alongside Bobby, he is part of the hip hop duo MOBB, who released the four-track album The Mobb in September 2016.
Song Min-ho was born in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. He has a younger sister named Dan-ah, who was a member of New F.O. He graduated from Hanlim Arts High School in 2011.
He was also a member of the underground rapping scene, under the name "Mino" or "Hugeboy Mino", collaborating with other underground rappers-turned-idols, namely Block B’s Zico, Kyung, P.O, Phantom's Hanhae, SPEED's Taewoon and M.I.B's SIMS.
Mino debuted in 2011 as a rapper in the group BoM, under Y2Y Contents Company. However, the group disbanded two years later. Mino went on to make his first acting appearance in March 2012 in the cable drama The Strongest K-POP Survival, broadcast on Channel A.
In 2013, Mino was accepted into YG Entertainment through auditions. In the same year, he competed as part of the trainee group "Team A" in the reality-survival program WIN: Who Is Next. He was the leader of Team A, but due to an injury part-way through the show, he was replaced as leader by Kang Seung-yoon. During the finale episode on October 25, 2013, it was announced that Team A had won the competition and would be debuting as Winner. Winner released their debut album 2014 S/S on August 12, and made their debut performance at Inkigayo on August 17, 2014.