The Korean pop singer BoA was born November 5, 1986. She is active in both South Korea and Japan. She was raised in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. After two

years of training, she released ID; Peace B, her debut Korean album, under SM Entertainment, and two after that she released her debut Japanese album, Listen to My Heart, under the Avex label, in 2008 she debuted in the United States with the single “Eat You Up”. BoA multilingual skills has helped here with her commercial success in South Korea and Japan and her popularity throughout Asia, She is one of only two non-Japanese Asians who have had million-selling albums in Japan and is one of only two artists to have first six consecutive num

ber-one studio albums o

n the Oricon charts. From 2001-2007  she hosted Beat it BoA’s World, a radio program on the Japan FM Network. She bought some controversy in Japan when she donated ?KRW50 million to a memorial project for Korean independence activist and nationalist An Jung-geun. She also voiced Heather the opossum in the Korean and Japanese version of Over the Hedge.

Discography

Korean studio albums