天上智喜 The Grace (천상지희 The Grace or Chun Sang Ji Hee The Grace in Korea, Tenjochiki in Japan) is a 4-member female pop/acapella group formed by SM Entertainment. Their former Korean name was simply 천상지희, Chun Sang Ji Hee, and their new official English name is simply The Grace.
The group consists of former soloist DANA, Jiyeon (now going by the name of Lina) from duet Isak N Jiyeon, soloist Sunday, and Stephanie who was picked-up through auditions in the United States.
Members
Sunday
Lina
Dana
Stephanie
Information
Prior to the group's official debut in April 2005, the four girls sang a song together on the album 2004 Summer Vacation in SMTOWN.com.
The concept of the group's name is from fellow SMTOWN group, Dong Bang Shin Ki, where each character in the group's name comes from the former stage name of each group member: Chun Moo Stephanie, Sang Mi Lina, Ji Sung Sunday, and Hee Yul Dana.
Like many of their fe...
天上智喜 The Grace (천상지희 The Grace or Chun Sang Ji Hee The Grace in Korea, Tenjochiki in Japan) is a 4-member female pop/acapella group formed by SM Entertainment. Their former Korean name was simply 천상지희, Chun Sang Ji Hee, and their new official English name is simply The Grace.
The group consists of former soloist DANA, Jiyeon (now going by the name of Lina) from duet Isak N Jiyeon, soloist Sunday, and Stephanie who was picked-up through auditions in the United States.
Members
Sunday
Lina
Dana
Stephanie
Information
Prior to the group's official debut in April 2005, the four girls sang a song together on the album 2004 Summer Vacation in SMTOWN.com.
The concept of the group's name is from fellow SMTOWN group, Dong Bang Shin Ki, where each character in the group's name comes from the former stage name of each group member: Chun Moo Stephanie, Sang Mi Lina, Ji Sung Sunday, and Hee Yul Dana.
Like many of their fellow SM artists, the group aims to take all of Asia by storm, focusing on Korea, Japan, and China. Helping them in their goal are the multilingual skills of their members: Stephanie is fluent in English, Sunday is fluent in Japanese, and Dana and Lina are studying Chinese, with Dana majoring in the subject.
As benchmarks in their goal of reaching all of Asia, the group had their debut performance in China on April 29, 2005, and released their first Japanese single on January 25, 2006. For their second single The Club, the group released it simultaneously in Japan and Korea.
With the release of the group's third Korean single, My Everything, the group underwent a slight name change to Chun Sang Ji Hee The Grace. The girls' individuals stage names also changed. Instead of having the individual Chinese names attached to their names, they would be simply Stephanie The Grace, Lina The Grace, Sunday The Grace, and Dana The Grace. The change was made to "emphasize the image of an acapella group based on abundant ability and fantastic harmony."
Piranha (2007)In 2007, after a year of being away from Japan, they returned in the summer to release a single called Piranha. With Tohoshinki's member, JEJUNG featuring on one of the single's tracks, it became their best-selling single since their Japanese debut in 2006.
A few months after the release of Piranha, the girls finally released their first Japanese album, Graceful 4. However, the album did not fare well on the Oricon charts. Until the end of 2007, they travelled to and from Korea and Japan, and made the 2007 MKMF awards as their last public appearance on Korean television before returning back to Japan in early 2008.
From the beginning of 2008, they continued to stay in Japan, mainly promoting themselves with live performances. In March 2008, it was announced that the four girls would be holding their first ever live concert tour in Japan, called "Graceful Part Vol. 1". It was also rumoured that they would soon release a single later in May, but so far, nothing has been confirmed. During the live tour period, it was made public that the four girls will remain in Japan for most of their activities.
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