2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
The Korean wave is successfully moving all over the planet, having conquered Asian countries, and now it has reached Europe and America. Musical groups and television series are the driving force behind cultural expansion. Moreover, the leaders of many K-pop groups successfully try themselves in the cinema. Park Chan-yeol, a member of the popular boy band EXO, is now acting in a lot of movies and TV shows. And in recent years, he tried himself as a composer and TV presenter.
Early years
Pak Chan-yeol (sometimes spelled Chanyeol or Chanyeol) was born on November 27, 1992 in the South Korean capital of Seoul. His parents are engaged in small business: his father owns a bar, and his mother owns the Italian restaurant Viva Polo. The older sister, Park Yuri, works as a director at the MVS television channel. He studied at the prestigious Hyundai Private School in Apgujeong, one of the most elite areas in Seoul. There are many plastic surgery clinics here and one of the mostlarge music studios working in the K-pop genre.
The guy became interested in music after watching the comedy "School of Rock". He especially liked the drummer, so he began to learn how to play the drum set. The father, who was engaged in music in his youth, fully supported his son's new hobby. Soon, Park Chan-yeol formed the musical group Heavy Noise, with whom he played for 3 years. From the age of 16 he studied at a private acting studio. Later he continued his studies at Kyunghee University (in the department of culture and management), where Suho and Baekhyun, other members of the EXO group also study.
Choice of profession
In 2008, Park Chan-yeol took second place in the Smart Model Contest and successfully passed the casting at the production company SM Entertainment, where he was accepted as a trainee. At this time, he was in high school, where he was a member of the Sirena group for a long time.
Given his school experience in a rock band, he thought he would perform in a band like TraxX. However, he soon realized the unreality of this. After numerous rehearsals and listening to music of various genres, the guy decided to concentrate on rap. In the same years, Park Chan-yeol's first film was released: he got a small role playing one of the students in the popular KBS2 teen drama "High Kick". In 2010, he starred in a music video for the super-successful girl group Girls' Generation, intended for broadcast on Japanese television. In addition, he starred in several music videos.other K-pop groups.
Pro debut
After four years of training, in the spring of 2012, Park Chan-yeol's creative biography finally had a real breakthrough. He was included in the composition of "Echo-K", speaking in Korean, another composition of "Echo-M" spoke in Chinese. The name of the boy band comes from the English word exoplanet, meaning a planet from another galaxy. The members associated themselves with various elements, Chanyeol became the personification of fire. The group's first album, HoHo, sold over a million copies, becoming the best-selling album in South Korea in the past 12 years. Participants of the "biggest boy band in the world" - as the press called them, were recognized by Korean Forbes as the country's most influential artists in 2014-2015.
Besides his performances in the band, he participates a lot in various television projects: the sitcom "Royal Villa" (cameo), the music video with actress Lee Hojun, the entertainment TV show "Date Alone" and the reality show "Laws of the Jungle in Micronesia for which Park wrote the theme song "The Last Hunter". As a special guest, he participates in numerous talk shows and entertainment programs. Photos of Park Chan-yeol and other members of the boy band almost never leave the covers of the country's leading publications.
At the top of the Korean wave
In recent years, Park Chan-yeol pays special attention to composing and acting. He wrote the rap parts for several of the group's songs, music for the radio show, the television program I Am Korea, and the soundtrack for the drama "Dokkaebi". In 2015, the mini-series "My Neighbors EXO" was released, in which the members of the boy band played themselves. In the same year, he first appeared on the big screen in an episode of the film "Changsu Store".
In 2016, he starred in the comedy "So I Married an Anti-Fan", which was created by the production company for the promotion of Park Chan-yeol. The film turned out to be uncomplicated, with a somewhat primitive script. The following year, the singer starred in the drama The Lost Nine, in which he played the musician Lee Yeol. In 2018, two more series were released, where Park again received minor roles.
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