Heo Ga-yoon

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Heo Ga-yoon
허가윤
Heo in September 2012
Born	Heo Ga-yoon (1990-05-18) May 18, 1990 (age 34) Goyang, South Korea
Alma mater	Dongguk University
Occupations	Singer actress
Years active	2011–present
Agent	BS Company
Musical career
Genres	K-pop
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	2009–2016
Labels	Cube
Formerly of	4Minute 2Yoon United Cube
Musical artist
Korean name
Hangul	허가윤
Hanja	許嘉允
Revised Romanization	Heo Ga-yoon
McCune–Reischauer	Hŏ Kayun

Heo Ga-yoon (born May 18, 1990), better known by the mononym Gayoon, is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of South Korean girl group 4Minute and its sub-group 2Yoon.

Heo was born on May 18, 1990,^[1] in Goyang. She received second place at SM's 9th "Best Singer Contest" in 2005.^{[2][unreliable source?]} She graduated from Dongduk Girl's High School. In 2008, Heo appeared in Mario's "I'm Yours" music video, with Seulong from 2AM.

In 2011, she enrolled into Dongguk University where she majored in film and theater.^[3] On September 17, 2014, Heo, along other stars, were appointed as ambassadors of Dongguk University.^[4] She graduated in 2016.^{[5][unreliable source?]}

Heo was chosen as a member of 4Minute in 2009. The five-member girl group official debuted on June 18, 2009, performing their debut single, "Hot Issue", on Mnet's M! Countdown.^[6]

On February 11, 2010, Heo was featured on the soundtrack for The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, singing a duet with Han Ye-ji in the song "One Two Three".^{[7][unreliable source?]} On September 3, 2010, Ga-yoon was a featured artist in Sunny Side's album, "Bad Guy Good Girl" with the song "Bad Guy Good Girl".^{[8][unreliable source?]} In October 2010, Heo Ga-yoon was one of twenty idols from different South Korean groups that recorded the song, "Let's Go", for the purpose of increasing public participation in the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit. She provided vocals along with labelmates Yong Jun-hyung and G.NA.^{[9][unreliable source?]}

Heo recorded "Wind Blow" for the soundtrack of MBC's My Princess; the song was released on January 5, 2011.^{[10][unreliable source?]} She also recorded "Shameless Lie" for the soundtrack of SBS' Lie to Me, which was composed by Jadu and E-Tribe. The song was released on May 17, 2011.^{[11][unreliable source?]} Heo made her acting debut on I'm a Flower Too with a cameo appearance as a high school student.^{[12][unreliable source?]} On October 24, 2011 she released her OST song "I Think It Was a Dream" for KBS's Poseidon. Ga-yoon was also featured on Mario's song "Message" and promoted alongside him for that song.

In 2012, Ga-yoon played Hyun Kyung in MBC's drama Light and Shadow. In May 2012, Ga-yoon made an appearance along with group mate Hyuna on Top Gear Korea.^{[13][unreliable source?]} Ga-yoon released a solo single on November 16, 2012. The song is called "My Love By My Side" and is a duet with BtoB's Ilhoon.^[14] On the October 21 episode of the live music show Inkigayo, Ga-yoon performed a new song for the SBS Gayo Daejeon music spectacular. As part of Mystic White, Ga-yoon released the charity song "Mermaid Princess" on December 26, 2012.^{[15][unreliable source?]} The group would go on to perform the song in a one off performance during the year end SBS Gayo Daejeon show.

In 2014, HyunA, Ga-yoon, and Sohyun released the song "Only Gained Weight" for Brave Brothers' tenth anniversary album in January.^{[16][unreliable source?]} In September, Gayoon became an MC for the third season of OnStyle's fashion program Style Log, together with Beast's Lee Gi-kwang and Do Sang Woo. The season premiered on September 12.^{[17][unreliable source?]}

In 2015, Gayoon released an OST for SBS's Yong-pal called "Nightmare" together with Yong Jun-hyung on August 18.^{[18][unreliable source?]} In November, it was revealed that Gayoon will make her big screen debut with the movie Father, Daughter. Gayoon, Jung So-min and Min Do-hee will be acting as daughters.^[19]

On June 13, 2016, Cube Entertainment announced that 4Minute decided to disband and the members were still in discussions on renewing their contracts.^{[20][21][unreliable source?]} On June 15, 2016 Cube Entertainment officially announced that Jihyun, Gayoon, Jiyoon and Sohyun's contracts expired on June 14 and none of them had decided to renew with the company.^{[22][23][unreliable source?]}

On October 14,^{[year missing]} it was announced that Gayoon would be joining BS Company as an actress.^{[citation needed]}

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