Choi Sarang (최사랑) is a South Korean soloist and actress under Bighit Music. She debuted on 7th August 2015 under Bighit Music ( formerly known Bighit Entertainment).
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Stage Name:- Sarang (사랑)
Birth Name:- Choi Sarang (최사랑)
English Name:- Luna Choi
Birthday:- 11 April 1997
Zodiac Sign:- Aries
Height:- 164cm (5ft 4in)
Weight:- 47kg (103 lbs)
Blood type:- B
MBTI TYPE:- INTP
SARANG FACTS
- She was born in Daegu, South Korea.
-She's an only child.
- Her family moved to Seoul when she was 12.
-She was extremely studious and always top of her class throughout her schooling.
-She can play 12 different instruments including piano, guitar, drums, violin, ukulele, cello and flute.
-She's been composing and producing music since she was very young.
-She was often street casted by lots of companies.
-She revealed she had received business cards from 16 companies.
-She has passed all big3 companies' auditions but chose Bighit cause of Yoongi.
-She graduated top of her class and was in top 1 percentile of the students in Korea.
-Her IQ is 146 (weekly idol).
-Sarang joined Bighit when she was 15 and trained for 3 years.
-She has a great alcohol tolerance and has earned the nickname "술퀸" (Alcohol queen).
-Though never professionally trained, she's known as one of the best kpop dancers.
-Her hobbies are:- Reading, watching dramas and movies, visiting art galleries and museums, listening to music, dancing and making new music.
- She's fluent in Korean, Japanese, English and Chinese.
-She had stayed with her aunt in Shenyang for couple of months and later in Guangzhou for two months.
-She had learned Chinese by herself and by watching dramas.
- Her Mandarin and Cantonese are really good especially Mandarin. She's almost at a native level but doesn't believe it herself.
-She revealed that growing up she used to watch lots of foreign shows and documentaries and that's how she picked up the foreign languages.
-While speaking English she has a distinct British accent.
-Sarang has a pet dog named Oreo.
- She made her acting debut in 2017 with a supporting role in Scarlet Heart:Ryeo.
-She played the role of Chaeryung.
- She played several minor/supporting roles but it wasn't until 2017 when she finally got recognition from knetz and international fans alike.
-She played the role of Hong NamJoo in School 2017 and though it was a side character she went viral and people started noticing her potential and talent.
-Since then she's starred in multiple dramas and has rose to the top and is praised as one of the best idol-actress.
-She's produced and composed several hit osts and songs including beautiful, Stay with Me, I'll go to you like first snow from Goblin.
-She won several awards for the soundtrack of Goblin and other dramas.
-She has also participated in the soundtrack of Hospital Playlist, Dr. Romantic, Hi, bye mama, Scarlet heart: Ryeo, The Red Sleeve, Tale of Mine Tailed, Doom at your service, and more.
-Her favorite snack is tteokbokki and chimaek.
-She's friends with the 97liners.
- Among the 97liners, Mingyu, DK, THE8 of Seventeen and Cha Eunwoo are her closest friends and they often hang out together.
- Since she's the only girl among the them she's treated like a princess and the boys even call her as 공주님 (Gongjunim/princess).
- Sarang's best friend is Jungkook.
-She's also friends with Jihyo, Mina,Miyeon, Soyeon, IU, Sejong.
- Her role models are IU and Yoongi.
- she LOVES coffee, alcohol and Barley tea.
-Sarang is a great cook and often cooks delicious meals for her label mates and friends.
-Jungkook is her official taste taster of any food she experiments with. (Weekly idol ep 331).
-She loves Taylor Swift songs.
-Sarang often uploads covers on her official YouTube channel and SoundCloud.
- She's surprisingly super athletic and strong despite her petite frame.
- She ran 400m in less than a minute. (ISAC 2016)
- The running man episode she appeared on is one of the most watched episode of the show.
- Her favorite seasons are autumn and winter.
- After Suzy she's earned the title of Nation's First Love (a/n ik Suzy holds this title but let's pretend Sarang holds it too <3) and Nation's Sweetheart.
- In 2019 following her rap album, she was given the title of Nation's Ace.
- Sarang is called as 'idol of idols'.
-She appeared in the Boy in Luv and War of hormone mvs of BTS.
- She's also appeared in 2pm, Nu'est and Epik High mvs.
- Tablo of Epik High praised her and asked her to feature on two of his songs. Both were hits domestically and internationally.
- Sarang confessed as a High Skooler (Epik High's fandom name) she said it was like her biggest dream came true.
-Her debut album was called Love and it did really well on charts in terms of longevity.
- She debuted with the song "Your love", it was a ballad but it didn't gain much attention until early 2016.
-Though she had to face lots of prejudices and difficulties as she was from Bighit, a relatively small company back then. (Interview with Variety, 2022)
-Her second comeback was so successful that she was instantly catapulted into stardom.
- She has collabed with BTS on two tracks, one for their album and one for hers.
- She's one of the main producer and composer of Bighit/Hybe and has participated in song making for almost every artist under Hybe.
-She became the first kpop female artist to top billboard charts and the second overall after BTS.
- Her song Hold Me Close from her fifth studio album released in 2022 topped billboard hot 100.
- "Just Do It" one of her pop songs topped billboard Hot 100 and stayed in the top 10 for the entire year.
- She became the second kpop artist to be nominated for Grammy.
- Sarang has won several prestigious awards for acting.
-Sarang won Best Actress Award two years in a row.
-She's the most streamed soloist in Korea and the fourth most streamed overall after BTS' rapline.
-She's made several rap songs all of which were praised by the hip hop community and netizens alike.
-Billboard named her as the "Diamond Voice of kpop"
-Rolling Stones named Sarang as one of the best vocalist of this century.
- She was linked with several artists but none of the relationship rumors were confirmed.
- Her ideal type is someone who's sweet, kind, considerate, funny, loves music and animals.
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