Boa Kwon

Boa Kwon (born November 5, 1986 in Guri, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a South Korean singer, better known by her stage name BoA. She is active in South Korea and Japan. Her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, has positioned her to become a cross-cultural idol in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. At age eleven, BoA went hand in hand with her more seasoned blood mate to a SM Entertainment talent quest. Though her brother was the one who auditioned as a break-dancer, SM talent scouts instead took notice of BoA and offered her a contract on the same night as the auditions.
Her parents initially opposed the notion of BoA's leaving school to enter the entertainment business but eventually consented at her older brothers' persuasion.She has said that her early influence as a singer was Seo Taiji.

BoA underwent a few years of educating (including vocal, move, and Japanese lessons), and at the time period characterized by thirteen discharged her presentation collection ID; Peace B in South Korea on August 25, 2000. The album was moderately successful; it entered the Top 10 of the South Korean charts and sold around 156,000 units. Meanwhile, her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, made arrangements with Japanese label Avex Trax to launch her music career in Japan. She was forced to quit school to prepareand in early 2001, BoA released her first mini-album, Don't Start Now; it sold around 90,000 units. After its release, she took a hiatus from the Korean music industry to focus on the Japanese market at which time she worked to solidify her skills in Japanese.

On March 1, 2010, SM Entertainment proclaimed that BoA could produce a comeback in South Korea for her 10th make a big appearance commemoration and could discharge a first full-length Korean collection following five years.On July 21, 2010, Avex released the "Woo Weekend" single, the lead song of which was used to promote Disney on Ice's 25th Anniversary in Japan BoA's official Korean website announced on July 23, 2010 that her comeback sixth Korean album would be entitled Hurricane Venus. Hurricane Venus was released on August 5, 2010 and debuted at No.1, where it stayed for 2 weeks.

The two singles, "Game" and "Hurricane Venus" charted at No.6 and No.1 respectively. A repackaged version of the album with two new songs under the name of "Copy & Paste" was released on September 27, 2010. BoA has released information regarding her Hollywood movie debut. The dance film, directed by Save the Last Dance screenwriter Duane Adler and produced by Robert Colt, will be titled 'COBU 3D' and is set for a early 2012 release. BoA will play an character called Aya while Derek Hough (known from the U.S. TV indicate Dancing with the Stars) will play the male head of Donny. Aya and Donny fall head over heels in love, admitting that their clans are foes on the move scene. Filming is set to begin in Spring in New York City and Toronto, Canada.