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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Kang Chan-hee
Person · male · South Korea · Daegu · born 2000
South Korean singer and actor
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Also known as Chani · 찬희 · Chani · 姜燦熙
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
2000s
Biography
English biography153 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1376628295
Biography
Kang Chan-hee (Korean: 강찬희; born January 17, 2000), also known by his stage name Chani, is a South Korean singer and actor. He began his career as a child actor, in the television dramas Listen to My Heart (2011), The Innocent Man (2012), The Queen's Classroom (2013), interactive drama Click Your Heart (2016), crime drama Signal (2016), and high-rated drama Sky Castle (2018). In 2015, he was introduced as one of the first members of NEOZ, which was a first group of FNC Entertainment's pre-debut team Neoz School. He debuted in October 2016 with the boy group SF9 and the single "Fanfare".
Kang's best-known acting role was his part in the 2018-19 hit television drama Sky Castle, where he played the role of Hwang Woo-joo, a smart and sweet high school student who lives in a high-end residential area called Sky Castle. It has also gained him a lot of fame and popularity.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 17 | 76.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Kang Chan-hee head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 17 | 76.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF9(band) | October 2016 | present | original |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chani_for_Marie_Claire_Korea_in_August_2021.pngaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f280e46-3eb6-44e6-9572-286734c528f3discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f280e46-3eb6-44e6-9572-286734c528f3core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6824033genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6824033seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chan-heebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Chan-hee
Why this artist is in the database
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Image: Marie Claire Korea · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q6824033 · MusicBrainz: 6f280e46-3eb6-44e6-9572-286734c528f3
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