Cho Mi-yeon

Cho Mi-yeon (born January 31, 1997), better known mononymously as Miyeon, is a South Korean singer and actress.

She is the vocalist of the South Korean girl group (G)I-dle under Cube Entertainment, and voiced Ahri in the virtual K-pop girl group K/DA.

Cho was born on January 31, 1997.

She is an only child.

Cho showed a strong interest in singing since she was a child.

Her love for music was inspired by her father.

Cho's parents soon recognized her passion and sent her to music schools to learn various skills, such as violin, guitar, and piano.

She eventually auditioned for YG Entertainment in middle school and went on to spend the next five years as a trainee.

However, her debut was thwarted and she left the company.

Cho continued to pursue music as she signed up for a music academy to strengthen her vocal skills, as well as learning to compose and produce music.

Cho spent about eight years as a trainee before debuting with (G)I-dle.

Before joining Cube, she was a freelance singer and appeared as an associate singer with Lim Seul-ong in Urban Zakapa's Canada Tour in September 2016.

In early 2017, Cho became a trainee at Cube Entertainment.

In 2017, she appeared in a small part in Lim Seul-ong's "You" music video.

Cho debuted with (G)I-dle on May 2, 2018, with their mini-album I Am and the title song "Latata".

On October 26, 2018, it was confirmed that Cho would perform at the League of Legends World Finals Opening Ceremony 2018, along with Soyeon, Madison Beer and Jaira Burns.

The four singers provided vocals for the virtual K-pop girl group K/DA, with Miyeon voicing Ahri, one of the most well known champions in the League of Legends.

Together with Evelynn voiced by Beer, Ahri is the main vocalist of the group.

Their song "Pop/Stars" went viral on YouTube and topped Billboard's World Digital Songs chart.

In 2019, Cho collaborated with Hangzoo with the song "Cart" as part of Amoeba Culture X Devine Channel Code Share Project.

In 2020, Cho appeared on MBC's music competition program King of Mask Singer.

She went on to win the first round with 64 points.

In the second round, she performed Yoon Mi-rae's "Goodbye Sadness and Hello Happiness" but lost to Im Kang-sung.

Her vocal performance received a warm reception from both audience and panels.

Cho's voice was described as smokey, but soulful.

Also that year, Cho sang again as Ahri on two songs from K/DA's EP, All Out; lead single "The Baddest" with Bea Miller and Wolftyla replacing Beer and Burns, and the second single "More" with the original line-up and Lexie Liu.

In September 2020, it was revealed that Cho would make her acting debut as the female lead in web-drama Replay: The Moment as Yoo Hayoung, a popular YouTuber and band vocalist.

With the drama's musical nature, Cho released several OSTs for it: "Dreaming About You" and "How To Love (with Neon Paprika)".

The drama went on and recorded more than 6 million cumulative views.

In October 2020, Cho sung "We Already Fell In Love" together with Minnie as part of Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol soundtrack, and in November, Cho released her first solo OST "My Destiny" as part of Tale of the Nine Tailed soundtrack.

On November 30, 2020, Cho appeared in Seoul Connects U, a variety travel show jointly planned and produced by MBC and Seoul Tourism Foundation.

The program shows a time slip trip in the same space and at different times to global fans by linking the past and present of Seoul through photos of stars and fans in real-time.

In February 2021, it was announced that Cho was chosen to be the main host of Naver Now radio program Gossip Idle (소문의 아이들), hosting the radio weekly every Tuesday at 8 pm from February 9.

The radio show was initially aired as a trilogy to commemorate the comeback of (G)I-dle's fourth mini album I Burn in January, due to the response from fans, it has returned to the official live show.

In the same month, Cho was appointed as one of the new hosts of Mnet's music program M Countdown, a position which she held from February 18 with actor Nam Yoon-su.

She became the first female MC on the program in 9 years.

On the day of their first broadcast, the pair prepared a special stage as they sang a duet song "Dream" by Suzy and Baekhyun.

At the end of the month, Cho succeeded in making the list of Korean Business Research Institute's monthly "Individual Girl Group Members Brand Power Ranking" at number 3 with an increase of 96.20% behind Blackpink's Jennie and Rosé.

In May 2021, Cho appeared on Kingdom: Legendary War as a hidden card to help BtoB's "Blue Moon (Cinema Ver)" No Limit stage.

The stage was presented as a musical-like stage with the concept of the movie La La Land and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Cho's role caught in a love storyline between Minhyuk and Changsub.