Moon Tae-il

Moon Tae-il (, born June 14, 1994), known mononymously as Taeil, is a South Korean singer.

He is a member of the South Korean boy band NCT and its sub-units NCT U and NCT 127, managed by the label SM Entertainment.

Moon Tae-il was born on June 14, 1994, in Seoul, South Korea.

He was accepted to the Applied Music program of Hanyang University in 2013; that year, the program was reportedly the most competitive early-admissions program in the country, topping law and medicine at other prestigious schools.

Moon decided not to enroll in university after being accepted by SM Entertainment as a trainee.

On October 13, 2015, Moon was introduced as a member of SM Entertainment's pre-debut training team, SM Rookies.

Moon made his debut in April 2016 in the rotational unit NCT U and became a member of the Seoul-based unit NCT 127 in July 2016.

On January 27, 2016, Moon released "Because of You" (단 한 사람) as soundtrack for The Merchant: Gaekju 2015.

On April 9, 2016, Moon made his official debut as a member of NCT U, a subgroup of NCT, with the release of "Without You".

Moon later made his debut as a member of NCT 127, the second sub-unit of NCT, with the release of EP NCT #127 on July 7, 2016.

On December 30, 2016, Moon contributed vocals to "Sound of Your Heart" (너의 목소리), a collaboration song with other SM artists (Yesung, Sunny, Luna, Wendy, Seulgi and Doyoung as SM Town) and pianist Steve Barakatt.

It was produced to commemorate the "SMTOWN GALA 2016, Sound of Magic" charity event, with sales of the songs donated to the Smile for U campaign and support music production for Vietnamese children.

On August 7, 2017, Moon released "Stay in My Life" with NCT U's Taeyong and Doyoung as a soundtrack for School 2017.

Moon and Doyoung later released "Radio Romance" as soundtrack for Radio Romance on January 30, 2018.

On September 7, 2018, Moon and NCT U's Jaehyun released "New Dream" as soundtrack for Dokgo Rewind.

On March 30, 2019, Moon was featured in Sohlhee's "Purple" (보라색).

Later in November, he appeared on King of Mask Singer under the nickname "King Card".

On April 11, 2021, Moon featured in Moon Su-jin's "The Moon" (저 달).

In May 2021, it was announced that Moon would participate in Kim Min-ki's tribute album, titled Morning Dew 50th Anniversary Tribute Album.

On June 6 the first part of the album, featuring "A Beautiful Human Being" (아름다운 사람) sang by Moon, was released.

On June 28, the fourth part of the album, featuring "Morning Dew" sung by various artists including Moon, was released.

On July 6, 2021, Moon opened an Instagram account and broke the Guinness World Record for "Fastest time to reach 1 million followers on Instagram", previously held by Rupert Grint since November 2020.

On October 11, 2021, Moon, along with Korean rapper Lil Boi, participated in labelmate Raiden's debut EP Love Right Back, with the title track of the same name.

They promoted the release together on M Countdown and Inkigayo.

On December 27, 2021, Moon, alongside labelmates Onew and Kyuhyun, released the song "Ordinary Day" for SM Entertainment's winter album 2021 Winter SMTOWN: SMCU Express.

On February 13, 2022, Moon released "Starlight" for the first part of the soundtrack for the South Korean television series Twenty-Five, Twenty-One. In December 2022, Moon featured on "Happier", released as part of the album 2022 Winter SM Town: SMCU Palace alongside labelmates Kangta, Yesung, Suho, and groupmate Renjun.

On February 9, 2023, Moon released "Lovey Dovey" as the soundtrack of the South Korean romantic comedy series Love to Hate You.

On September 22, 2023, simultaneously with the premiere of the series, Moon released "Bandit" as the main official soundtrack of South Korean Netflix TV series Song of the Bandits.

On August 15, 2023, Moon got into a car accident in downtown Seoul while returning home by motorcycle after finishing his schedule early in the morning.

He will suspend all schedules for the time being and focus on treatment and recovery.