Minatozaki Sana, popularly known as Sana, is a Japanese-born singer and member of musical group TWICE (South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015 through a reality show SIXTEEN ).
On the reality show, 16 contestants competed for eight coveted spots in the group (which later became known as Twice) and Sana was selected for her skills and pop-star potential. The other group members are Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun Chae-young, and Tzuyu.
Since the group debuted in 2016, Sana’s fame and popularity has continued to rise as the group’s vocalist and lead dancer. The group’s second EP (released in 2016) was the most popular album released by a girl group in South Korea. As revealed by JYP Entertainment, over 160,000 copies have been sold.
Below is the biography/profile of the star girl with a quirky and outgoing personality and seven other fascinating facts you need to know about her.
Minatozaki Sana – Profile, Biography
Minatozaki was born in Osaka, Japan on December 29, 1996. Her desire to join a K-pop group (a broad name for the music genre produced in South Korea’s music industry) as a singer and dancer actually started after seeing the rise of girl groups such as Girls’ Generation (also known as SNSD) and KARA.
Her dream came true when after an audition in 2012, K-pop conglomerate – JYP Entertainment recruited her while she was still in middle school in Japan.
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7 facts you need to know about her
- She is an only child
Although her parents are not that popular online, Sana is the only child born to them. They have no other children after her.
- Sana gets dumped while shopping with friends
Although there are relatively standard ways to become an intern in Korea and many aspirants would do anything to be among the best in the industry, some of the top idols in the industry were actually cast in very unconventional ways, some weren’t. did not even aspire to the position even if they had the talent and Sana was such.
Sana was spotted by a scout while shopping with a friend in Japan. He was offered a casting offer on JYP Entertainment talent hunt. Sana who was in 9th grade at the time turned down the offer but later accepted it when she learned that Wooyoung and Suzy from KBS drama Dream High were in the company.
- She baked spring rolls on sixteen
Can you beat that? While other contestants were busy showing off their singing and dancing skills at the JYP survival show SIXTEEN, Sana actually showed off her cooking skills by making spring rolls. At least the judges were able to look beyond cooking skills to see a potential singer/dancer.
- She is clumsy
Oh yes! it’s a word that Minatozaki Sana actually used to describe himself. She said she is clumsy but at the same time tries to have fun. During a reality TV show, Sana says “To be honest, I don’t really have a sense of balance.”
Speaking to GQ Korea, she said when she was a trainee, she couldn’t look at herself in the mirror so much since she was just practicing, but now she spends a lot of time in front of the mirror doing her hair and dressing. make up.
- She is multilingual
The talented singer/dancer is also good with languages. Sana speaks Japanese, Korean and English. Although she admitted to GQ Korea that her Korean was better before appearing on SIXTEEN than it is now. She said these days, her tongue kept twisting and turning and her pronunciation was not as good as before.
- She appeared in Got7 and Junho music videos
As a trainee at JYP Entertainment, she appeared in Got7’s music video “A” as well as Junho Feel’s music video.
- His hobbies are
La Sana, very energetic and friendly, enjoys shopping, collecting perfumes and eating.
She once confessed that she and Momo secretly ordered jokbal (a Korean dish) while they were trainees, unfortunately they were caught by their manager because they forgot to clean a piece of lettuce on the floor.
Minatozaki Sana would eat yogurt smoothies everyday, anytime because she loves it but will never try beans and eggplant.