Prior to joining SM Entertainment, Wendy used to upload music videos of her singing on YouTube.Top 10 Asia-Pacific Gold Song of the Year Voice-over of Queen Poppy for the Korean-dubbed version ✖ = Not participated as writing/composer/arrange Album ✓ = Participates as writing/composer/arrange " This Is Your Day (for every child, UNICEF)" " Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" She made a cameo in the series, Descendants of the Sun and made an appearance in the documentary, SMTown: The Stage. Since her debut, Wendy has appeared on the variety shows, We Got Married, King of Masked Singer, Trick and True, Raid the Convenience Store and Battle Trip. Wendy released a collaboration single with Eric Nam titled " Spring Love" on March 4, 2016, as part of SM Entertainment's SM Station project. On King of Mask Singer (episode 43 aired on January 24, 2016), she participated as a contestant with the stage name "Space Beauty Maetel". On January 9, 2016, she became a panelist on We Got Married. She released another song " Let You Know" for the soundtrack of the JTBC drama D-Day on October 16. The song was released on Jand debuted at #31 on the Gaon Singles Chart. Wendy has also collaborated with rapper Yuk Ji-dam for the song " Return", one of the OSTs of KBS2's drama Who Are You: School 2015. In late-July 2014, Wendy was assigned to represent the color blue and chosen to be the main vocalist of Red Velvet, which debuted on Augwith the single " Hapiness". A clip of Wendy singing a cover of Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" was released on SM Entertainment's official Youtube channel. She trained for less than two years before she was introduced as a member of SM Entertainment's pre-debut trainees team SM Rookies on March 14, 2014Īs part of SM Rookies, Wendy released the song " Because I Love You" for the soundtrack of the Mnet drama Mimi, which was one of the soundtracks of the Mnet drama series, Mimi, which labelmate Changmin starred in, appearing in the music video as well. In 2012, she auditioned at the 'SM Global Audition' in Canada and was recognized for her musicality, being able to play several instruments, as well as having strong vocal skills. G.NA personally picked the 15 finalists with Koreaboo to open for her first solo showcase, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Prior to this in 2010, she auditioned for the "Koreaboo: Cube Entertainment Global Auditions 2011" with an online audition and was picked from over 5,000 videos by Koreaboo and Cube Entertainment to continue to the final round in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For her education in these countries, she attended Shattuck St Mary's School and Richmond Hill High School.Īfter graduating high school in 2012, she moved to South Korea to establish a professional singing career. Whilst living in the North American continent, Wendy began using the name, Wendy Son and learnt to speak English, French and Spanish, alongside her native Korean. Wendy aspired to become a singer from the age of only six and throughout her life trained to fulfill this goal, as well as learning to play the saxophone, piano, flute and guitar.Īt the age of 12, Wendy and her sister, moved to live in the USA and later Canada. Wendy spent most of her childhood years in Cheongju, South Korea. Her family consists of her parents, an affluent couple, whose names haven't been revealed to the public and her sister, named Son Seung-hee who is three years her senior.
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