HARMONIX - TXT Yeonjun

One (Iseul story to Pledis)

*~2014 with 15 year old Iseul*~

The year was 2014, I was 15 years old and had spent pretty much my whole life here in Las Vegas Nevada, I was born and raised in Las Vegas Nevada with my family, my dad is Korean singer, he started singing in the 80s up until now, and my mother is American and Columbian who studied abroad in korea and then became a model and singer in both America and Korea, my mom felt very homesick being a foreign exchange student in Korea where she met my dad, after they married they stayed in Korea and had my older brothers(who are also singers) and I and then moving to Nevada to be closer to my mom's family, since then I've taken trips back and fourth to see my dad's family in Korea every year for the holidays. My family was very fanous in Korea even after moving to Vegas, tbey continued their careers as singers, actors and modeling while keeping their fans, and gaining new ones. My whole family has done many interviews and talk shows in Korea and America but this was different. Today my family and I were packing up to leave the states for good as I just officially got signed to SM Entertainment, a South Korean music company home to the artists: TVXQ, BOA, Super Junior, Girls Generation, Shinee, Red Velvet, and F(X) with more artists on the way.

To start with some more information about myself and how I was scouted by SM- My Korean name is Jung Iseul, my English name is Isabella (Bella) Jung, and I'm a international superstar. I didn't have much of a normal childhood due to my families name, I've been raised and treated like a celebrity all my life, and honestly i didn't like it as much, i had to miss out on "normal childhood" experiences. When i was 2 I began to take ballet classes as I loved seeing the girls in the big tutus dance around so effortlessly on the stage, I then began types of dance styles and stuck with the ones I liked best being Ballet, Jazz, Hip-hop, Aerial, contemporary, and breakdancing(b-boying) as the years went on and I got older and got better I ended up becoming the captain of my dance teams where we competed at dance competitions around Nevada and California, my team got very popular in the states, with breath taking choreography, and inproved each competition until we reached nationals, then finals and became grand champions.  When I was 6 years old I took my first singing class, when I first joined I was told I had a very soft voice and that my teacher would be able to work with me to perfect my technique and open up my diaphragm to better my singing my parents then took over my singing lessons. I mostly sang ballads and rock, as that's what I think suited my voice and those are the styles I was most comfortable singing and listening to. By the time I was 10 I realized I loved the feeling of singing and dancing, I joined the musical theater class at my school which allowed me to dance and sing at the same time as well as try acting and work on emotion and facial expressions, In my class i got casted for a few of our shows and one, the I'll always remember, was Mozarts The Magic Flute, it was an Opera really known in America and France, and because of my role, i had to learn to sing opera. I took opera lessons for about a year and I'd say thats one of my skills I'm really proud of. I was 13 when I put out my first mini album in America, that album blew up everywhere, Asia, North and South America, Europe, practically everywhere, I won my first award as a singer on American Music Awards, my popularity only continued to grow. when I was 14 One of my dance videos from my company went viral all over YouTube and social media platforms and SM just happened to come across the video

SM then reached out to my schools dance team and my families management which led them right to me. My dance teacher at the time actually really liked Kpop and told me to go for it, and after speaking with my parents we all agreed and now I'm here, in Seoul South Korea infront of SM Entertainment about to sign myself over to them.