All About the Amazing Soloist, BoA
BoA is a South Korean soloist under S.M. Entertainment. BoA is one of the soloists from S.M. Entertainment, but she is the most famous compared to other soloists. She is well known as the Queen of Kpop, and is also the youngest soloist to debut in her era. BoA is famous not only in Asia, but also overseas in countries like America. BoA’s songs are always nice to hear, even a decade after their released. Here is a brief history of BoA.
Full Profile of BoA
- Real Name : Kwon Bo-Ah
- Stage Name : BoA
- Nickname : Beat of Angel, Best of All, Kkamshi, Queen of Kpop
- Birthday : November 5, 1986
- Origin : Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- Zodiac Sign : Scorpio
- Religion : Catholic
- Nationality : Korea
- Height : 160 cm
- Weight : 48 kg
- Hobby : Listening to music, watch movie and karaoke
- Language speciality : Korean, Japanese, English
- Favourite Sport : Golf
- Favourite Singer : Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Whitney Houston and Ne-Yo
- Agency : S.M. Entertainment
- Fandom : Jumping BoA
- Current Position in Agency : Board of Director and Singer
- Social media : @BoAkwon (Twitter) | @boakwon (Instagram)
Surprisingly Facts About BoA
- BoA is the youngest soloist to debut in the K-Pop industry.
- BoA’s real name means ‘Kwon’ for power and authority and ‘Bo-Ah’ for precious jewel.
- BoA always drinks a glass of water first thing in the morning after she wakes up.
- BoA likes to play golf.
- BoA is close to Pro Golfer Choi Na-yeon, because they similarly debuted at a young age.
- BoA learned the choreography for ‘One Shot Two Shot’ in just 1 day.
- BoA’s hips are prone to getting hurt because one time her pants got caught on something backstage during a concert and her hip has hurt since then.
- BoA really likes to eat seafood and rice noodle soup.
- BoA has her own circle called Natgarim Club where the members of the club are actually shy people. The members of the club are BoA, Son Hyun-Joo, Ko Chang-Seok, Ma Dong-Seok, Kim Ju-Ha and Minho SHINee.
- BoA once lived in Japan for 2 years with CJSH’s Sunday and Girls Generation’s Sooyoung.
- BoA’s closest friend is Crystal Jay, a J-Pop idol.
- BoA doesn’t go very far when she is travelling alone.
- Among S.M artists, BoA is really close to Key and Minho from SHINee also Yunho from TVXQ.
- BoA’s songs since she debuted didn’t really have a catchphrase before until ‘One Shot Two Shot’ released.
- BoA became a host for Mnet “Produce 101 Season 2” in 2017.
- BoA got closer to Key from SHINee after both of them hosted “Keyword BoA” together.
- BoA loves Winnie The Pooh.
- BoA has 2 pets, a dog named Pama and a cat named Sara.
- BoA like to drink alcohol very much.
- BoA was a judge for SBS’s “Kpop Star” as a representative from S.M Entertainment.
- BoA likes to eat In-n-Out burgers and McDonald’s Hazelnut Iced Coffee, because she likes coffee so much.
- BoA has collaborated with American record producer, rapper, singer and songwriter, Sean Garret, for a song in English, ‘I Did It for Love’ in 2009.
- BoA likes to carry a mirror around with her so she can check her teeth. She does that because she is always smiling with her teeth showing.
- BoA danced to her own version of Red Velvet’s ‘Red Flavor’ during the S.M. Town Halloween party while dressed as one of the Mario Bros in 2016.
- During her appearance on MBC’s “Weekly Idol”, she amazed the MC’s during her dancing section because she still remembered the moves from her debut era.
- During her appearance on JTBC’s “Knowing Brother” and MBC’s “Weekly Idol”, she amazed the MC’s with her ability to remember other group’s dance moves after just watching the dance video one time.
- BoA is really honoured to sing Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’ as a part of SM Station 2 with Siedah Garret as a Tribute to Michael Jackson.
- BoA sang on several anime soundtracks: ‘Every Heart’ for Inuyasha and ‘Masayume Chasing’ for Fairy Tail.
- BoA spoke about her loneliness whenever there are events in S.M.Town, because the other groups are chatting with each other while she is sitting alone.
- BoA doesn’t like it when people tell her, “You Are BoA” when she feels down.
- BoA compared her Japan debut era to other S.M. Artist, saying that she and TVXQ needed to learn Japanese and had to do interviews without a translator, while the other artists were accompanied by at least one translator.
- BoA used to be closed to TVXQ’s Jaejoong.
- BoA isn’t good at taking selfies. On an episode of “Keyword BoA”, Key teaches BoA how to take a good selfie.
- When BoA smiles, her upper lip curls back and showing her teeth.
- BoA doesn’t like to be called a ‘Pioneer’ in K-Pop industry to breakthrough to the Japanese market because of her difficulties during that time.
- BoA has 2 managers, one in Korea and one in Japan.
- When choreographing the dance for ‘One Shot Two Shot’, her choreographer, Rikimaru, mistook her song as being about drinking alcohol, while BoA says that it is about fireworks. Luckily, Key brought this up during dance practice.
- BoA’s real personalities actually shy and she seems like a normal girl, which is different from her stage personality that always seems strong and bold in every performance.
- BoA has her own show with Key for her comeback in 2018 entitled “Keyword BoA” which can be stream through V Channel.
- While she was dating actor Joo-Won, she misheard Joo-Hoonie instead of Joo-Wonie during Mnet “Produce 101 Season 2” filming.
- For the ‘Only One’ partner dance, she was partnered with Yunho from TVXQ, Eunhyuk from Super Junior, Taemin from SHINee, Sehun from EXO, Luhan (when he still in EXO), and Minhyun Wanna One / Nu’est.
