Stephanie Hwang (Korean name: Hwang Mi-young; born August 1, 1989), known by the stage name Tiffany (Korean: 티파니; Japanese: ティファニー), is an American-born South Korean singer, TV presenter, promotional model, and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Girls Generation. Tiffany was born in San Francisco, California, in the same hospital as fellow band-mate Jessica Jung.[1] Although both born in California, the two would coincidentally end up attending and graduating from the same high school in Seoul, Korea Kent Foreign School, during their preparations for debut in the same group. Tiffany grew up in Diamond Bar, California, attending South Pointe Middle School and Diamond Bar High School. Tiffany was scouted whilst performing on stage in her home country. She was invited to audition at the SM Entertainment Starlight Casting System and joined the company on October 2004 in Los Angeles, California at age 15.[2][3] Despite initial objections from her father, she recalls packing up her former life and moving to South Korea after receiving the permission to do so within three weeks of making the decision.[4] She trained for 3 years and 7 months before debuting.[5] Tiffany is the youngest of three siblings. Her older sister studied anthropology at Berkeley.[4][6] For much of her early career when approached with the topic of mothers or family, Tiffany would often refer to her father or both parents; on a radio broadcast she stated that she missed her mother who was far away and she had not seen her in some time.[7] However, in late 2009 she said for the first time in public that her mother had already died.[8] She later said that her mother had died two years before she herself became a trainee, and that she is somewhat distant with her father, all of her immediate family living overseas.[9] In August 2009 Tiffany was absent from a group filming in order to fly to the US and attend the funeral of her grandfather.[10] Health In 2008, Tiffany was diagnosed with vocal nodules, wherein a mass of tissue grows on the vocal folds due to strain or overuse. The condition gave her dysphonia, causing a hoarseness in her voice as well as affecting the range of her singing voice. After receiving treatment her voice returned to normalcy, but the condition began affecting her voice even more drastically throughout the latter half of 2009, causing her to take a break from activities to receive hospital treatment in September.[11] She also experienced difficulties due to the disorder mid-2010, a company representative stating she would be taking a short hiatus while she was hospitalized again.[12][13] While treatment has been successful, Tiffany has stated that her current voice is different from her voice previous to contracting vocal nodules, although it is not necessarily something she views as a bad thing.[14] Throughout her career Tiffany has suffered several injuries requiring medical attention. She fell after a performance of Gee, injuring her left ankle and being put in a cast. Tiffany continued to perform with the group, albeit either sitting or standing to the side stationary.[15] Tiffany also suffered a wrist injury while filming for Lets Go Dream Team in early 2010 and was seen wearing a cast while continuing activities.[16] In August 2010, Tiffany suffered an injury to her right ankle after taking a fall during the SMTown Live 10 World Tour in Seoul. Although not a serious injury, she was put in a cast in order to make sure she would be healed enough to perform at Girls Generations upcoming Japanese showcase.[17] She suffered a more severe fall two months later during another performance, injuring her posterior cruciate ligament. Due to this, she was withdrawn from the groups promotions of Hoot, her absence from the spotlight lasting almost a month until she returned to join her fellow group-mates activities in Japan. The issue of Tiffanys return after injury was a topic of great interest within both the Korean and Japanese media.[18][19] Career Girls Generation Main article: Girls Generation Tiffany serves as a vocalist of the group. Tiffany is also a member of a Girls Generations sub-group, Girls Generation-TTS along with Taeyeon and Seohyun. Their first mini-album Twinkle (EP) was released on 2 May 2012. Solo singing career In 2008, she released two singles with fellow Girls Generation members Jessica and Seohyun — the first called Oppa Nappa (오빠 나빠, Bad Boy)[20] and the second titled Mabinogi (Its Fantastic!), a theme song for a video game.[21] Tiffany has also participated in the OST of SBS drama Jamyeonggo with the song By Myself 나 혼자서),[22][23] and was featured in a duet with K.Will in A Girl, Meets Love (소녀, 사랑을 만나다).[24] She was also featured in Oh! My Love to You (너만을 느끼며) by The Blue, alongside bandmate Sooyoung.[25] She also sang the theme song for Caribbean Bay with her fellow members Taeyeon, Seohyun, Sunny, Jessica, Yuri and k-pop boy group 2PM. In 2012, Tiffany participated in the OST of Love Rain which bandmate Yoona is a lead actress in. She and Kyuhyun of Super Junior sang the OST for To The Beautiful You. In 2013, Tiffany participated in the OST of All About My Romance. The song is called One Step Closer.[26] Show hosting career Apart from all her solo works, Tiffany was the co-host of Mnets Sonyeon Sonyeo Gayo Baekseo (Korean: 소년소녀 가요백서), along with Kim Hyesung from November 5, 2007 to June 13, 2008.[27] Tiffany, along with fellow Girls Generation member Yuri, was an MC on MBCs Show! Music Core. She left after a farewell on July 31, 2010 to focus on Girls’ Generations debuting in Japan.[28][29] On September 5, 2009, she was an MC for the 2009 Incheon Korean Music Wave with Yuri & announcer Oh Sang-jin.[30] On August 29, 2010, she was an MC for the 2010 Incheon Korean Music Wave with Yuri & announcer Oh Sang-jin.[31] On December 25, 2010, she was a host MC for Christmas Show! Music Core alongside Girls’ Generations Yuri. She was an MC for the 2010 SBS Gayo Daejeon award ceremony which was held on December 31 at the MBC Dream Center with Yuri and actor Ryu Si Won.[32] She also the MC for the 50th Anniversary Music Wave Concert which was held on March 12, 2011 together with Yuri and Nichkhun. On August 13, 2011, she was the MC for 2011 Incheon Korean Music Wave together with Yuri[33] and also for K-Pop All Star Live in Niigata which was held on August 20, 2011 together with Yuri & Sooyoung.[34] On October 11, 2011, Yuri and Tiffany return to Show! Music Core as permanent MCs after a 1 year and 3 months absence. On November 12, 2011, she was an MC for K-POP Music Festival in Sydney together with Yuri. On April 7, 2012, she hosted the 2012 Korean Music Wave in Bangkok together with Taeyeon and Nichkhun.[35] As of April 14, 2012, she hosts Show! Music Core together with Taeyeon and Seohyun. On November 10, 2012 Tiffany, along with Yonghwa of CNBLUE, and Kikwang of Beast, co-hosted the 2012 SBS Kpop Super Concert held at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California where numerous stars, including Girls Generation, Beast, and CNBLUE have performed. On September 1, 2013, Yuri and Tiffany returned as MCs for the 2013 Incheon Korean Music Wave, which makes it their 4th year as MCs for the event.[36] Acting career From November 25, 2011 to January 29, 2012, Hwang played Carmen Diaz in the musical Fame along with Eunhyuk of Super Junior, Son Ho Young, Go Eun Seong, Kim Chan Ho, Shin Ui Jeong, Lina of The Grace, Choi Ju Ri, KoN and Kim Jung Mo of TRAX.[37] Television appearances On September 23, 2013, SBS announced that they will showcase a new show called Fashion King Korea which will be a fashion contest among celebrities. Tiffany is one of the 8 celebrities chosen to be fixed members of the show along with SISTARs Bora, singer Yoon Gun, Lee Ji-hoon, Kim Na Young, Boom, Lim Dong Wook and Choo Mi Rim. The show began filming on October 2 and will premiere on November 17.[38][39] Discography Main articles: Girls Generation discography and Girls Generation-TTS#Discography Soundtrack appearances, collaborations and solo performances Year Title Song Duration Artist 2007 SBS Thirty Thousand Miles in Search of My Son Touch the Sky 03:49 With Taeyeon, Jessica, Seohyun and Sunny 2008 Emotional Bandaid Oppa Nappa 03:45 With Jessica and Seohyun Mabinogi OST Its Fantastic 03:40 With Jessica and Seohyun N/A Holding Hands 03:54 With Jessica, Tiffany, Super Junior, SS501, Jewelry, Brown Eyed Girls, Lee Hyun, T.G.U.S KBS Hong Gildong OST The Little Boat (작은 배) 03:27 With Taeyeon, Jessica, Seohyun and Sunny The Secret, Between Us Secret 03:30 Narrator of Kim Dong-wans song 2009 SBS Princess Ja Myung Go By Myself 04:14 Solo Dropping the Tears A Girl, Meets Love 03:50 Duet with K.Will The First Memories Feeling Only You (너만을 느끼며) 03:26 With Sooyoung and The Blue MBC Heading to the Ground OST Motion 04:06 With Taeyeon, Jessica, Seohyun and Sunny 2010 Haru OST Ring 03:33 Solo N/A Cabi Song 03:19 With Jessica, Taeyeon, Seohyun, Sunny, Yuri, Chansung, Junsu, Taecyeon N/A Cooky 02:50 With Jessica, Seohyun and Sunny My Friend Haechi Haechi Song (해치송) [40] 03:26 With Taeyeon, Jessica, Sunny and Seohyun 2012 Love Rain Because Its You 03:19 Solo To the Beautiful You Rise and Shine 04:01 With Kyuhyun 2013 All About My Romance One Step Closer 04:16 Solo Filmography Drama Year Title Role 2008 Unstoppable Marriage As BoolGwangDong (seven princess) (cameo) Musical theatre Year Title Role 2011–2012 Fame Carmen Diaz Television reality shows Year Title Episode 2008 Kko Kko Tour All 2009 Family Outing 81 & 82 2010 We Got Married Season 1 42, 45 & 49 Family Outing 2 8 & 9 We Got Married Season 2 40, 51, 52 & 69 (On Stage) 2013 Strong Heart 165 & 166 Happy Together 282 Fashion King Korea All (Judge) Television shows hosting Year Title Role 2007–2008 Mnets Sonyeon Sonyeo Gayo Baekseo Co-hosted along with Kim Hye-seong KBSs Champagne Co-host 2009–2010; 2011–2013 MBC Show! Music Core Co-hosted along with Yuri (2009–2010; 2011–2012) Co-hosted along with Taeyeon and Seohyun (2012–2013) Radio shows hosting Year Title Role 2013 MBC SJ Shin Dongs Shim Shim Ta Pa Guest DJ together with Taeyeon (fill-in for Shindong) Music video appearances Year Song title Artist Role 2008 Mabinogi(Its Fantastic!) Alongside with Jessica and Seohyun As herself Love Hate Jessica, Tiffany and Seohyun Its Fantastic! Tiffany, Jessica and Seohyun Haptic Motion Jessica, Yoona and Tiffany 2010 Caribbean Bay Girls Generation & 2PM As herself Endorsements Aside from her endorsements alongside Girls Generation, Tiffany has also endorsed the following brands: Year Commercial Note 2008 SK Telecom 1682 Collect Call Nexon Mabinogi Samsung Anycall Haptic A-Solution Until 2009 2010 Biotherm Aquasource 1,2,3 2011 Dior Snow With Sooyoung, Yuri, Sunny, Hyoyeon and Jessica 2012 Bean Pole International Official Muse for Bean Pole Chanel With Jessica 12plus With Super Juniors Siwon Levis 2013 QUA IPKN Awards See also: List of awards and nominations received by Girls Generation Year Award Result 2008 Mnet 20s Choice Awards: Hot School Girl Nominated 2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards: Best OST for By Myself Nominated[41] 2011 2011 MBC Entertainment Awards: Special Award: MC Division (with Yuri) Show! Music Core Won[42]
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:23:26 +0000