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.
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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).
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.
With the success of her albums Real+ and Last Fantasy from 2011, IU solidified her girl next door reputation as Korea’s “little sister” and asserted herself as a strong force on the nation’s music charts. Her debut as a songwriter occurred in 2011 with the release of “Hold My Hand,” a song created for the television program The Greatest Love. With numerous tunes reaching the top 10 on the Gaon Digital Chart, IU’s third studio album, Modern Times (2013), demonstrated a more mature musical approach that signified a break from her prior girlish image.
