Red Velvet (레드벨벳) is a well-known K-Pop girl group under SM entertainment that has risen to popularity with their addictive songs and crazy concepts. The group consists of 5 members: Irene, Wendy, Seulgi, Joy and Yeri.
Debut Date: 1st August 2014
Debut Album: The Red
Debut Song: Happiness
Fandom Name: ReVeluv
Instagram: @redvelvet.smtown
Indian Fan Accounts: @reveluv_india @i_ship_rv_with_me
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MEMBERS PROFILE
IRENE (Bae Juhyun)
Position: Leader, Rapper, Dancer, Vocalist
Birthday: 29th March 1991
Designated Colour: Pink
Representative Animal: Rabbit 🐰
Instagram: @renebaebae
She is known as the ‘ending fairy’ of the group
She dislikes chicken and coffee
Some people misunderstood her as ‘cold’ because of how she didn’t interact with others much
As well as being a singer, she is an actress and had a role in the K-drama Game Development Girls
She is a part of the recently debuted subunit ‘Seulrene’ with Seulgi
SEULGI (Kang Seulgi)
Position: Dancer, Vocalist
Birthday: 10th February 1994
Designated Colour: Yellow
Representative Animal: Bear 🐻
Instagram: @hi_sseulgi
She is a very calm person by nature
She looks up to Beyoncé, Luhan and Super Junior
Seulgi is the type to easily fall asleep anywhere
The rest of the members admit that she is the best at eating spicy food
She is a part of the recently debuted subunit ‘Seulrene’ with Irene
WENDY (Wendy Son/Son Seungwan)
Position: Vocalist
Birthday: 21st February 1994
Designated Colour: Blue
Representative Animal: Squirrel 🐿
Instagram: @todayis_wendy
Her musical talents are no joke and she can play a lot of instruments including the saxophone and flute
Reportedly, she is the first member to wake up in the morning
She is like the mother of the group and she likes to bake and keep her surroundings clean
She frequently posts covers on Instagram
Her role model Jessie J noticed her cover of Price Tag
JOY (Park Sooyoung)
Position: Rapper, Vocalist
Birthday: 3rd September 1996
Designated Colour: Green
Representative Animal: Chick 🐥
Instagram: @_imyour_joy
She is the cutie of the group and is in charge of aegyo
The members say her eating habits are the best
She is called the selca queen and she takes the most selfies in Red Velvet
Like Irene, she is an actress and has appeared in the K-dramas Tempted and The Liar and His Lover
She went viral as ‘the girl in the rainbow dress’
YERI (Kim Yerim)
Position: Vocalist, Rapper, Maknae
Birthday: 5th March 1999
Designated Colour: Purple
Representative Animal: Turtle 🐢
Instagram: @yerimiese
She got added into the Red Velvet lineup post-debut in the beginning of 2015
The savage maknae of the group
She likes different types of perfume
In Korea, she is a certified songwriter and composer
She’s a social butterfly and has lots of idol friends
MILESTONES
• In 2015, they won the (Best) Rookie Award at the Golden Disk Awards, Korean Entertainment Arts Awards and Seoul music awards
• They won their first music show award on Music Bank for their song Ice Cream Cake on 27th March 2015
• At the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Ice Cream Cake also won the category for Best Dance Performance (female group)
• On 1st April 2018 they performed in North Korea for 1,500 viewers including the country’s leader Kim Jong-Un
• At the Seoul Music Awards, they have won an award every single year from 2015 (Rookie Award in 2015 and Main Award in 2016-2020)
• In 2016, 2017 and 2019 they have won the Main Award at the Soribada Best K-music Awards along with others like Icon Award, Artist Award and Best Stage Award
• At the Fact Music Awards 2019 they won the award for Artist Of The Year and World Wide Icon
• They won the Choice Electronic/Dance Song category at the Teen Choice Awards 2019 for their song Close To Me with Ellie Goulding
• They have had 3 headlining concert tours: Red Room (Asia/2017-2018), Redmare (Worldwide/2018-2019), La Rouge (Worldwide/2019-)
Check out their debut song Happiness
Listen to the song that got them their first win- Ice Cream Cake
Jam to their popular songs Peek-A-Boo and Red Flavor
Last but not the least, hear their latest OT5 comeback title track Psycho
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