Lee Ji-eun, popularly known by her stage name IU, was born in South Korea on May 16, 1993.
She is a singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. She began her career as a singer at the age of fifteen with her first extended play (EP), Lost and Found, after signing a trainee contract with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007. (2008).
What K-pop group is IU from?
After ten months of preparation, IU made her stage debut in 2008 under the moniker “I and You become one via music,” which was created by LOEN. On September 18, 2008, she made her live debut as a professional singer on the music show M Countdown by singing her debut single, “Lost Child” (Korean: ), live for the first time.
IU said that throughout the performance, the audience had yelled abuses at her, and while she originally felt discouraged by it, she now sees it as a positive experience.
Even though her subsequent albums, Growing Up and IU…IM, were commercially successful, she didn’t become a household name in Korea until the release of the first single from her 2010 album Real, “Good Day” (Korean: ).
The song “Good Day” later spent five weeks in a row at the top of South Korea’s Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was named the best K-pop song of the decade by Billboard.
