Chaekyung
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Born in 1996. Competed on Produce 101 and was a guest member before joining in November 2016.
Their story
DSP's spring group
DSP Media, the agency of KARA and Rainbow, announced a new girl group in February 2015. The name was explained letter by letter: "A" for the best girl group, "pril" for lovely girls. April debuted on 24 August with the EP Dreaming and "Dream Candy". The first six were Somin, Chaewon, Hyunjoo, Naeun, Yena and Jinsol, the youngest. Somin left before the end of that year and later turned up in KARD, DSP's co-ed group.
Fairy tales and a new line-up
From the start April leaned on storybook concepts. "Tinkerbell" in 2016 borrowed the name of a fairy, and the fan club took the name Fineapple, a pun on April. After Hyunjoo left that autumn, DSP added two members in November 2016: Chaekyung, known from Produce 101, and Rachel, a trained ballet dancer who had studied in Oregon. The six returned in January 2017 with "April Story", whose Korean title tells of the land of spring.
Growing up on record
The later EPs moved slowly away from the sweet early sound. The Blue and The Ruby came in 2018, the second with the bolder "Oh! My Mistake", and that April they also debuted in Japan with a Japanese "Tinkerbell". Da Capo, a musical term for going back to the beginning, arrived in April 2020 with "Lalalilala" and gave them their best chart week: No. 5 on the Gaon album chart.
The final chapter
A summer single album, Hello Summer with "Now or Never", followed in July 2020 and turned out to be the last new April release. On 28 January 2022 DSP Media announced that the group would disband after six years, and asked fans to support the six members in their new paths. Chaewon's contract with the agency ended two weeks later.