Jihyo

Early life

Jihyo was born on February 1, 1997 in Guri, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Her birth name was Park Ji-soo.[1][2][3]

Career

Main articles: Sixteen (TV series) and Twice

Debut and solo activities

JYP Entertainment had scouted Jihyo after she participated in a contest on Junior Naver and placed second.[1] She then joined JYP Entertainment as a trainee at the age of eight and trained for ten years before her debut.[4][5][6] During her trainee years, Jihyo was known as the face of Innisfree's teen line with boy band Boyfriend.[1] She trained with many JYP idols including Wonder Girls' Sunmi and Hyerim, Bae Suzy, Jo Kwon, and Nichkhun. Jihyo was set to debut in a girl group along with Nayeon, Jeongyeon and Sana, but the project was cancelled.[1][3] Instead, they all joined the reality television show Sixteen, a competition designed to select the founding members of Twice.[7][8] She legally changed her name to Jihyo before the competition.[1] As one of nine successful participants, she went on to join the newly formed girl group Twice.[4] Though not the oldest member of the group, Jihyo was later voted by her bandmates as their leader in an anonymous vote.[1][4][5] In October 2015, Twice officially debuted with the release of their first mini-album, The Story Begins,[9] with the lead single "Like Ooh-Ahh" being the first K-pop debut song to reach 100 million views on YouTube.[10]

Bibliography

Photobooks

Title Release date Publisher Ref.

Yes, I am Jihyo. August 20, 2021 JYP Entertainment [11]

Discography

Main article: Twice discography

Collaborations

Title Year Peak chart positions Album

KOR

Gaon

[12]

"The Reason Why I'm Beautiful"

(with Ben and Jung Eun-ji)[13] 2016 97 Popular Music Crush Pt. 1 from Inkigayo Music Crush

Composition credits

All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database unless stated otherwise.[14]

List of songs, showing year released, artist name, and name of the album

Title Year Artist Album Composer Lyricist

"Eye Eye Eyes" 2017 Twice Signal No Yes

"24/7" Twicetagram No Yes

"HO!" 2018 What Is Love? No Yes

"Sunset" Yes or Yes No Yes

"Girls Like Us" 2019 Fancy You No Yes

"Get Loud" Feel Special No Yes

"21:29" No Yes

"Up No More" 2020 Eyes Wide Open No Yes

"First Time" 2021 Taste of Love No Yes

"Real You" Formula of Love: O+T=<3 No Yes

"Cactus" (선인장) Yes Yes