Real Name: 조규현 (Cho Kyu Hyun)
Birthday: Febuary 03, 1988
Height: 180 cm
Blood Type: A
Random Fact: Cho Kyuhyun’ won third place at the Chin Chin Singing Competition in 2005. He soon signed under SM Entertainment and was featured in the video remake of TVXQ’s single “Hi Ya Ya”.
Before Kyuhyun’s addition to Super Junior, the original twelve members were said to be separating and “graduating” as the band was still presented as a project group at the time.
He is the “maknae” (youngest) of the Super Junior members. He is considered as one of the four lead vocalists of the group. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps.
He has a sister named Cho Ara. He is a devout Christian.
Kyu Hyun’s father is in the education business and owns an academy. Largely due to his parents’ involvement with the education business, he spent a lot of time studying and preparing for exams. Kyuhyun is known to be a smart student in his schooling days, placing 2nd rank in middle school. He has expressed a lot of interest in mathematics in particular, joining a Math Olympiad when he was younger.
Kyu Hyun was initially urged to study law and had stated that if he did not become a singer, he would have chosen to become a lawyer. His original plans were abandoned once Kyu Hyun joined a band in high school, where he became more interested in music and singing. His father was against his dream of singing but soon made a deal with Kyu Hyun, seeing how he expressed such interest in singing. Kyu Hyun’s father made a deal that if Kyu Hyun did well for his college entrance exams and was accepted into a prestigious university, it was only then that he would allow Kyu Hyun to pursue music.
Kyu Hyun was accepted into Kyunghee University and his father had allowed him to go on with his musical career. He currently studies at Kyunghee University majoring in Post Modern Music.
He is nicknamed “GameKyu” because he likes to play computer games and is very good at it. Kyuhyun has become infamous for his habit of playing computer games and admits that he is an absolute StarCraft fan. He was even caught once in a Starcraft convention in Seoul.
April 2007 Car Accident
In the early morning of April 19, 2007, just one month before Kyu Hyun’s first anniversary in Super Junior, Kyu Hyun with Super Junior members Lee Teuk, Shin Dong, Eun Hyuk, and two managers were all hospitalized due to a serious car accident when returning from the Super Junior Kiss the Radio show that night. The driver lost control of the vehicle as the van flipped over on its right side. Kyu Hyun, who was sitting behind the driver’s seat when the accident occurred, was the most injured and had a fractured hip, pneumothorax from broken ribs, and facial scratches and bruises. He was slipping in and out of consciousness and was mute because of the shock. Kyu Hyun spent 6 days in the ICU before he was moved to a regular hospital room. Kyu Hyun also did not need the respiratory machine anymore to support his breathing, though it was said that he was only able to walk on his own one month after the accident. Kyu Hyun was discharged on July 5, 2007 after 78 days.
Musicals
He was a hot topic after being offered a role in the musical The Three Musketeers.
From the 15th of December to 30 January next year, he will be acting with Yoo Jun Sang, Im Ki Jun, Kim Mu Yul, TRAX’s lead vocalist Jay, and Dana at the Chungmu Art Hall.
Solo
In 2009, for the promotions of Super Junior’s third studio album Sorry Sorry, Kyu Hyun performed as one of the lead vocalists and traveled with the other members to overseas events, including Jackie Chan’s Bird Nest Concert on April 8, 2009 with Zhang Liyin. The album brought immense popularity to the group after their long hiatus, allowing Super Junior to appear regularly in several variety shows and endorsements. They also held their second official Asia Tour, Super Show II.
Kyu Hyun featured on Yoo Youngsuk’s 20th anniversary tribute album, singing his first solo: a remake of Yoo’s hit song “7년간의 사랑” (“7 Years of Love”). He first performed the song on July 10, 2009 on Yoo Hee Yeol’s Sketch Book, the episode airing 2 days later. The song was released as a digital single, and Yoo Youngsuk’s album was available online on June 30, 2009, with all proceeds going to UNICEF.
He and bandmate Dong Hae performed a special song ”Happy Bubble” for a facial wash product commercial “Happy Bath” with actress Han Ji Min. A full music video was released on August 19, 2009.
Kyu Hyun, along with the rest of Super Junior-M, returned in September 2009 to China to promote their first mini-album: Super Girl.
On January 6, 2010, Kyuhyun released his solo song ”Listen To You”, it is the main theme song for Korean drama ”Pasta”. When the song was first released on the music site monkey3 (www.monkey3.co.kr), it garnered a lot of attention and reached #1 on the real time chart.
On August 5, 2010, Kyu Hyun released his third solo song “희망은 잠들지 않는 꿈 (Hope, a dream that never sleeps)” as OST for popular TV drama 제빵왕 김탁구 (Baker King, Kim Tak Goo).
Aside from the official solo releases, Kyu Hyun has also performed a variety of other songs such as ”Believe”, Qi Qin’s ”Won’t Let My Tears Accompany Me Through The Night”,Nicholas Teo’s ”Tears of Polaris”, Jam Hsiao’s ”Forgive Me” and ”A Goose’s Dream” with Jonghyun of SHINee. Kyuhyun also collaborated with The Grace in early 2008 to perform “하루만 (Just For One Day)” for The Grace’s first album 한번 더, OK?. During the SMTown Live ’10 World Tours he sang the song “Call With My Heart” with Girls’ Generation’s Seohyun.
