| Luna 박선영 朴善怜 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Park Sunyoung |
| Born | August 12, 1993 Seoul, South Korea |
| Genres | Contemporary R&B, dance-pop, electro-pop |
| Occupations | Singer, dancer |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | SM Entertainment (South Korea) Avex Trax (Japan) |
| Associated acts | f(x), SM Town |
| Luna | |
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| Hangul | 루나 |
| Revised Romanization | Runa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Runa |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 박선영 |
| Hanja | 朴善怜 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Seon-yeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Sŏn-yŏng |
Park Sunyoung (Hangul: 박선영), better known mononymously as Luna (Hangul: 루나), born on August 12, 1993, is a South Korean singer, dancer and model. She is most famous as being part of quintet pop girl band f(x), under the label of SM Entertainment in South Korea and Avex Trax in Japan.
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Luna was born as Park Sun-Young in Seoul, South Korea on August 12, 1993. Luna has an identical twin sister who is older than her.[1]
Recently, it was confirmed that she has been accepted at Chung-Ang University's Institute of the Arts as theater majors through a special rolling admissions screening process.[2]
In 2006, SM Entertainment, an entertainment agency based in South Korea, recruited Luna after seeing her performing on a SBS's television program, "Truth Game".[3] After training for more than three years, she became a member of a quintent pop idol girl group, f(x), under the label of her agency. On September 1, 2009, f(x)'s first single "La Cha Ta" (stylized as "LA chA TA") was digitally released. The group's first broadcast performance of "La Cha Ta" was held at MBC's music show Show! Music Core on September 5, 2009. Since then, f(x), has released three digital singles and a mini-album, Nu ABO, and have won numerous awards. The group participated in the SMTown Live '10 World Tour alongside their label-mates in Seoul, Shanghai and Los Angeles.[4] f(x) has also appeared in their own reality shows like Hello f(x) and f(x)'s Koala. They have also endorsed some commercial products like an LG Cyon cell phone, 'Lollipop', and clothing brands like K-Swiss.[5] On November 24, 2010, Avex Entertainment, released a statement that f(x) was now signed to their agency for future releases in China, Japan and Taiwan.[6]
In October 2010, Luna was one of the twenty idols from different South Korean groups that recorded the song, "Let's Go", for the purpose of increasing public participation in the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit. She provided vocals along with labelmates Sungmin, Seohyun and Jonghyun.[7]
Also Luna appeared as the regular member of Star King for a long time and earned an Award from SBS for her appearance and effort.
2011 - On April 15, Luna started hosting a music program called The Show from MTV Korea along with Secret's Hyosung.
Luna was recently cast in CSTV's upcoming drama titled "Saving Madame Go Bong Shil". It will be her drama debut alongside SS501's Kim Kyu Jong. The exact airing date is yet to be announced but it is expected to be this December.
| Year | Album artist | Album | Song | Duration | Collaboration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Shinee | 2009, Year of Us | "Get Down" | 03:03 | With Key and Minho |
Luna has recorded quite a few tracks for OSTs of various dramas. In late 2009, Luna and Krystal Jung contributed to the soundtrack of television series, Invincible Lee Pyung Kang, with a duet, "Hard but Easy". In early 2010, Krystal, Luna and Amber also recorded the song "Spread Its Wings" for the soundtrack of the KBS's drama, God of Study. Krystal and Luna again recorded a duet song for the KBS's drama Cinderella's Sister original soundtrack, called "Calling Out". In late 2010, Luna released a single title 'Beautiful Day' as part of the soundtrack for KBS's drama "Please Marry Me". On December 23, 2010, a duet collaboration between Luna and Super Junior's Yesung was released, titled “And I Love You“, for the second original soundtrack of KBS's President.[8]
| Year | Album | Song | Duration | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | KBS2 Invincible Lee Pyung Kang OST | "Hard but Easy" | 03:51 | Duet with Krystal |
| 2010 | KBS God of Study OST | "Spread Its Wings" | 03:56 | Duet with Krystal and Amber |
| KBS Cinderella's Sister OST | "Calling Out" | 04:22 | Duet with Krystal | |
| KBS Please Marry Me OST | "Beautiful Day" | 03:58 | Solo | |
| KBS President OST | "And I Love You" | 03:34 | Duet with Yesung |
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2010-11 | Star King | Regular Member |
| 2011 | MTV The Show | Host |
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2011 | Legally Blonde | Elle Woods |
| Coyote Ugly[9] | Violet |
| Year | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
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| 2010 | SBS Entertainment Awards: Variety New Star Award | Star King | Won [10] |
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