Jeon Somi

Born

2001-03-09

Birthplace

Ontario, Canada

Biography

Ennik Somi Douma, known professionally as Jeon Somi, is a South Korean and Canadian singer. Born in Canada to a South Korean mother and a Dutch-Canadian father, she moved to South Korea as an infant. Somi initially rose to fame in South Korea as the first-place winner of the survival reality show Produce 101 and as a member of the show's corresponding eleven-member girl group I.O.I. Following the conclusion of I.O.I's activities, she signed with YG Entertainment's subsidiary, The Black Label. She made her debut as a solo artist on June 13, 2019, with the single "Birthday". In 2021, she released her first studio album XOXO, which included the top-ten single "Dumb Dumb". She achieved her first top-five single in South Korea with "Fast Forward" in 2023.