Tiffany

Tiffany (Korean name: Hwang Mi-Young; Hangul: 황미영; Hanja: 黃美英; Born Stephanie Hwang on August 1, 1989), is a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation, where she is one of the main vocalists.Tiffany was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Diamond Bar as the youngest of three siblings. She was born in the same hospital with her fellow Girls' Generation member, Jessica. Tiffany's mother died when she was 13. She auditioned at the SM Entertainment Starlight Casting System and joined the company on October 2004 in Los Angeles. She was trained for 3 years and 7 months in SM Entertainment. Although Tiffany graduated from Korea Kent Foreign School on April 2007, she had attended primary and secondary schools in California - South Pointe Middle School (US) and Diamond Bar High School (US). Tiffany speaks fluently in English and Korean and conversationally in Japanese. In 2008, she released two singles with co-members of Girl's Generation Jessica and Seohyun — the first called "Oppa Nappa" ("오빠 나빠", "Bad Older Brother") and the second titled "Mabinogi (It's Fantastic!)", a theme song for a video game. Tiffany has also participated in the OST of SBS drama Jamyeonggo with the song By Myself 나 혼자서), and was featured in a duet with K.Will in A Girl, Meets Love (소녀, 사랑을 만나다).

She was also featured in Oh! My Love to You (너만을 느끼며) by The Blue, alongside bandmate Sooyoung. She also sang the theme song for Caribbean Bay with her fellow members Taeyeon, Seohyun, Jessica, Yuri and k-pop boy group 2PM. In addition, Tiffany was featured in the Korea Tourism Organization's promote tourism to South Korea campaign drama Haru soundtrack, in which she sang the song "Banji" ("Ring", Hangul: "반지"). Apart from all her solo works, Tiffany was the co-host of Mnet's Sonyeon Sonyeo Gayo Baekseo (Korean: 소년소녀 가요백서), along with Kim Hyesung from November 5, 2007 to June 13, 2008. Tiffany, along with fellow Girls' Generation member Kwon Yuri, was an MC on MBC's Show! Music Core, leaving after a farewell on July 31, 2010 to focus on Girls’ Generation's Japan debut. On December 25, 2010, she was also a host MC for Christmas Show! Music Core along side Girls’ Generation's Yuri. She was an MC for the 2010 SBS Gayo Daejeon award ceremony which was held on December 31 at the MBC Dream Center with Yuri & actor Ryu Si Won. She was also the MC for the 50th Anniversary Music Wave Concert which was held on March 12, 2011 together with Yuri & Nichkhun. On August 13, 2011 she was a MC for 2011 Incheon Korean Music Wave together with Yuri and also for K-Pop All Star Live in Niigata which was held on August 20, 2011 together with Yuri & Sooyoung