Chungha

**Chungha** (청하) also known by her English name **Annie Kim** or **Kim Chungha** (Korean:김청하) is a South Korean singer and solist. Chungha debuted with I.O.I in their song "Dream Girls".

Chungha born as **Kim Chan-mi** (Korean:김찬미) on Feb 8, 1996 in Seoul, South Korea. Chungha made her solo debut with the mini album "Hands On Me as of 2017.

Ranking 4 on Produce 101 as the only MNH Entertainment trainee she is currently a soloist under her original agency. Chungha also lived in Dallas, Texas for 8 years and can speak fluent Korean and English.

## Early Life

Chungha was born on Feb 8, 1996 in Seoul, South Korea. Using her English name Annie Kim, she lived in Dallas, Texas 8 years before returning to South Korea. She can also speak fluent English and Korean. Before joining MNH , Chungha auditioned for JYP Entertainment and YG Entertainment as well. She trained 3 years before debut and had been dancing for 6.

## Career

### Produce 101

On Produce 101, Chungha represented MNH Entertainment as a trainee along with Oh Seojung. She reanked A with a re-evaluation grade of A as well. In the finale Chungha ended up totaling with a total of 403,633 votes and getting 4th place debuting in I.O.I. She was praised for her choreography as well for "Whatta Man" as they chose hers over everyone elses.

### Solo debut

After I.O.I had disbanded Chungha returned to her respective agency MNH. It was announced that that Chungha would be making her solo debut in 2017. On March 15, 2017 it was officially announced by MNH that Chungha was working on her debut album.

On Oct 10, it was revealed that Chungha was making upcoming music and would be returning in November. A teaser was released on Nov 6, that officially confirmed the speculations. On Dec 24, MNH revealed her official colors and her official logo. She also reacted to them as well.

On Jan 17, 2018 her comeback Offset. It was released with the title track "Roller Coaster". Later on June 26, MNH confirmed that Chungha would return on July 18, with the mini album titled Blooming Blue with the title track "Love U". On Jun 26, her official fandom name *"BYULHARANG"* (별하랑) was revealed with *Ha* cmoming from Chungha's name, *Byul* meaning star, and *Rang* meaning With, meaining *"Stars with Chungha"*.

ON Aug 8, it was announced that Chungha would join the project group consisting of w:c:redvelvet:Red Velvet's Seulgi, (G)I-DLE's Soyeon, GFriend's w:c:gfriend:SinB\SinB and Chungha. They released the single "Wow Thing" on Sept 8.

On Jan 2, 2019 Chungha's "Gotta Go" in the single album XII was released. She then released her fourth mini album Flourishing on June with the title track "Snapping".

## 2020 Present

As of Jan 2020, Chungha released a collaboration with Paul Kim titled "Loveship". She made her first comeback of 2020 in the new.wav project for MNH Entertainment titled "Everybody Has". On Apr 27, her pre release single "Stay Tonight" for her upcoming maxi single "Play" was released which peaked at number 9 on the Gaon charts.

## Discography

 "Love U"

1. ↑ Youtube:Can Chungha Speak Spanish?
2. ↑ Soompi:Chungha Make Solo Debut
3. ↑ Soompi:Kim Chungha To Officially Debut As Solo Artist
4. ↑ Soompi:Kim Chungha Revealed To Be Preparing For New Comeback
5. ↑ Soompi:Chungha Confirmed To Make Janurary Comeback
6. ↑ Soompi:Chungha Has A New Fanclub Name And We're Loving It