Luna

> *"별들에게 갈 거야, 신루나! 안녕하세요, 루나 입니다!~"*
> *"To the stars, Shin Luna! Hello, I'm Luna!~"*
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Luna during "New place sad place"

**Luna**, also known as **Lunaria** (formerly known as Flarea), is an independant singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. She is currently working to make her solo debut as a vocalist.

Luna releases her vocal songs using her first name as her stage name, and uses her alias and online nickname Lunaria to release instrumental-only music, and for potential producing projects in the future.

As Lunaria, she made her debut with the release of her first track "Shuffled Things" on January 28, 2022.

Luna's goal and dream is to make a debut as an idol in South Korea.

## History and career

### 2019 - 2021: YouTube and Twitch activities

Luna opened her Twitch channel in late 2017, holding her first livestream in April 2018, but started frequently streaming around February 2019. In mid-January 2019, Luna opens her French gaming-focused YouTube channel, titled "Aurelia", which was her former username. She then began filming and uploading Let's Play series on several games she either loved or wanted to discover.

She changed her usename to Flarea in June 2019, saying she was looking for a name she wouldn't be bored of shortly after choosing it. In 2021, Luna publicly announced her desire to make music, expressing the passion for music and singing she's had since her very childhood. It's only later that she would express her dream of becoming an idol.

### 2022: First releases, finding the right path

In late 2021, Luna sets up a YouTube channel dedicated to music. After toying around and a bit of teasing, she finally releases "Shuffled Things", an electronic track and her first track as Flarea. She would release two other similar tracks in the same year. Around the end of summer, Luna announced during a Twitch livestream that she would move to another city to follow a music theory course at the local arts university, and that she had plans for a solo debut as singer Luna, plans she would execute as soon as she would feel skilled enough.

From September to December 2022, she was a member of a short-lived seven-member project team formed for a semester-long university project. This team produced an experimental rock song named "Samtalen", and the group used that word as its name as well. As a group member, Luna served as a sub-vocalist, barely singing any lyrics and focusing on vocal drones.

### 2023: Upcoming vocal debut, alias change

On May 1st, 2023, Luna announced that she would release a first vocal song by July, and a first voice cover could be expected shortly after, although she didn't reveal the song she would be covering. Later the same day, she explained the upcoming song wouldn't be her official debut yet, but instead would be a piece of a pre-debut plan she had already wrote.

On June 24, 2023, Luna took it to Twitter and Discord to reveal that she got diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and sleep-related disorders, inducing a medical treatment, and that she went back to making some music after a one-month break. She then announced that her first song was delayed, but not cancelled.

On August 7, 2023, using the results of a poll published on her Discord server, Luna announced that she would be dropping her alias Flarea in favor of Lunaria, pushed by the will of using her first name Luna more, plus a growing dislike of her previous nickname. She then changed all of her links and online usernames to Lunaria, and changed the artist name on her three first instrumental songs.

On August 25, 2023, teasers were posted on all of Luna's SNS accounts, announcing that her first digital single "New place sad place" would be released on September 1st. The song was released on all platforms at the announced date after five countdown teaser pictures were shared.

On October 14, 2023, Luna uploaded teasers with nighttime pictures to Instagram, all captioned with "Twilight Days, 2PDDSA, 202X", then deleted all the pictures three hours later. She then uploaded a picture with colored text on a black background, with lines saying: "- Twi. Dy. - 2nd pre-debut Digital Single Album, Coming in 202?". The general meaning seems to be the teasing of Luna's next release as her 2nd pre-debut digital single seems to be coming soon.

On October 31, 2023, a cover of IZ\*ONE's "Vampire" was released by Michiko Yamashita, featuring nine other idol singers, including Luna.

## Discography

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### As Luna

#### Digital singles

* [2023.09.01] "New place sad place" *(pre-debut)*
* [Upcoming] "Twilight Days" (202x) *(pre-debut)*

### As Lunaria

#### Digital singles

* [2022.01.28] "Shuffled Things"
* [2022.05.25] "Strings of the Clouds"
* [2022.09.22] "Disrupted Lament"

## Credits

 "Strings of the Clouds"
 "Disrupted Lament"
 Samtalen

## Trivia

* She is a huge fan of Nintendo and its related series.
* She is known as a fan of many female idols and artists, and a great lover of girl groups.
* Her favorite group of all time is IZ\*ONE, tied with Starrysky(fr), and her favorite solo artists are Heize and Reol.
	+ Some other artists she's a big fan of are WJSN, LE SSERAFIM, Dreamcatcher, LOONA (and all related acts, such as sub-units and newer groups with the members), IU, fromis\_9, IVE, Red Velvet and more.
	+ She also enjoys numerous Japanese artists, including Reol, DECO\*27, Kawaguchi Yurina, NiziU, the AKB48 Groups, and groups from the Love Live! series, especially µ's.
* Her favorite idol is Miyawaki Sakura.
* Her favorite games of all time are Pokémon Ultra Moon and Monster Hunter Rise.
* The first album she was able to physically buy was IZ\*ONE's fourth mini album *One-reeler / Act IV*.
* She made the promise that one day or another, through a way or another, all of her music would be released on physical supports.
* Her MBTI personality type is INFP-T.