Sunday (singer)

Sunday

Sunday (in the back with the microphone) with Dana at the Cyworld Dream Music Festival.

Korean spelling
Korean alphabet :	진보라
Hanja :	秦寶 拉
Revised Romanization :	Jin Bo-ra
McCune-Reischauer :	Chin Bora

Jin Bo-Ra (born January 12, 1987 in South Korea ) is known in South Korea and Japan by her stage name Sunday . She was originally a solo singer and made her debut in Japan in 2004. She is now a group member of the South Korean girl band The Grace , which debuted in 2005.

Career

Sunday was first heard from the record company SM Entertainment in 2002 when they signed a contract. She was trained to be a solo singer there and should make it big in Japan. She was originally supposed to debut there under the stage name Bora . Due to the similarity of the name with that of the South Korean singer BoA, who is also under contract with SM Entertainment, and the resulting likelihood of confusion , her record company changed the name to Sunday .

To make her debut in Japan in 2004, she lived in Japan for two years and learned the Japanese language there . She signed a record deal for Japan with Avex Trax , where Asian music legends like Ayumi Hamasaki , BoA, Kumi Kōda , Namie Amuro and many more. can be found. She then released her first Japanese single Lira no Kataomoi ( リ ラ の 片 想 い ) on July 8, 2004 , which debuted at number 120 on the Oricon charts and sold 1,824 times in the first week. In addition, the second Japanese single followed a year later, on April 20, 2005, which was called Usotsuki Boy ( ウ ソ ツ キ BOY ). This single was much better received in Japan, debuting at number 87 and selling 5,057 copies after five weeks. In the same year, however, she decided to continue with the band The Grace .

Since 2010 she has also played in several musicals, for the first time in the South Korean version of the musical Rock of Ages . Several well-known celebrities were in this musical, such as Dana or Onew and Jay, a member of the South Korean band Trax.

At the end of June 2011, SM Entertainment announced the return of the band "The Grace" in a reduced line-up with changed band names. The new name, which only consists of the two group members Dana and Sunday, is The Grace: Dana & Sunday . On July 8, 2011, they released the music video for the new single "One More Chance". The single has been available in digital format since July 11, 2011.

Discography

Singles

#	title	publication	placement	Sales
1.	Lira no Kataomoi リ ラ の 片 想 い	0July 8, 2004	120	2,000
2.	Usotsuki Boy ウ ソ ツ キ BOY	April 20, 2005	87	5,000

Music videos

1. Lira no Kataomoi
2. Usotsuki boy

Releases with The Grace

→ Main article: The Grace / Discography

Releases as Dana & Sunday

#	title	publication	format	Sales
1.	나 좀 봐줘 (One More Chance)	July 11, 2011	Digital format	834,000

Web links

Commons : Sunday Jin  - Collection of Images

• Official Japanese website
• Official website of Dana & Sunday
• Official Korean website of The Grace
• Official Japanese website of The Grace
• Official Rock of Ages website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Japanese website. biography
2. ↑ mydaily. 다나, "앳된 이미지 벗 으려 무대 서 안 웃었다"
3. ↑ Eternal Shapley Archives. All About The Grace
4. ↑ Jpopmusic. Archive ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Generasia. Usotsuki boy
6. ↑ Official Rock of Ages website. Korean main page ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ sportsworldi.segye Dana & Sunday
8. ↑ Generasia. Profile of Sunday
9. ^ Gaon Chart. Weekly charts

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Jin is the family name here, Bo-Ra is the first name.