NC.A

Biography

Im So-eun (Korean: 임소은; born October 7, 1996), better known as NC.A (Korean: 앤씨아), is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted in August 2013 with the single "My Student Teacher". She was last active as a member of South Korean girl group Uni.T, until their disbandment in September 2018.

Early life and education

NC.A was born on October 7, 1996.
She attended Osan Middle School then Hanlim Multi Art School, and graduated in February 2015.

Pre-debut

Towards her graduation of junior high school, NC.A started going to a music academy. She performed there, and someone had it video-taped and uploaded online. The video ended up in the hands of Chae Jong-ju, the CEO of JJHolic Media, who later called her in for an audition. Upon passing the auditions, she became a trainee.
In 2012, she performed in a concert of her label mate Yurisangja.

2013: Debut with My Student Teacher and Oh My God

On August 11, 2013, NC.A released her debut digital single "My Student Teacher". The song, with lyrics talking about high school life, was composed by Park Seung-hwa of Yurisangja, written by Lee Ji-won and edited by Seo Jung-jin, which presented Lee Hye-ri.
She portrayed the role of a high school student in tvN's Reply 1994. The drama's producing director Shin Won-ho saw a pre-debut photo and asked her to audition for the drama.
On November 15, she released her second single "Oh My God×Oh My God14 November 2013 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracks1Oh My God3:162Oh My God (instrumental)3:17", with her appearing in the music video this time.

2014: Scent of NC.A, Crazy You & Hoo Hoo Hoo

On March 21, 2014, NC.A released her digital single "Hello Baby×Hello Baby21 March 2014 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracks1Hello Baby3:292Hello Baby (Instrumental)3:27". Following this single, NC.A released her first mini-album on April 9.
Along with Sungwon from A-Prince, NC.A was an MC of the new music show Ranking Reformat which aired from Monday to Friday at 12AM KST. The premiere was on April 7 . On the same date, the teaser of the MV "I'm Different" was released on NC.A's Official YouTube channel. On April 9, the music video for "I'm Different" was released.
On August 28 NC.A posted on Twitter a message announcing she would release a new single on September 2.
On September 2 NC.A released a pre-release single "Crazy You" featuring Sims of MIB as a surprise for fans and also their upcoming studio album, NC.A released the music video on September 20.
On December 18 NC.A released the MV for Hoo Hoo Hoo.

2015–present: Multiple solo singles, Time To Be A Woman and The Unit

On December 31 NC.A posted the teaser for her new single "Coming Soon×Coming Soon5 January 2015 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracks1Coming Soon3:152Coming Soon (instrumental)3:15" on her YouTube channel, announcing that it would come out January 5. Coming Soon is a song about a girl who wants to confess her feelings to the boy she's been admiring. She held her debut stage of "Coming Soon" on KBS's Music Bank January 2. The song and MV were released January 5. "Coming Soon" is NC.A's first try at rapping since her debut.
On February 21 NC.A announced that she would be coming back with a ballad song on March.
Through NC.A's official Facebook and Twitter it was announced on March 25 that the following day she would release her new single Cinderella Time and they posted the concept images. The single and MV were released on March 26 and in the MV Sungjae from BTOB and Dino from Halo appear.
It was announced that NC.A would make her comeback on July Through her official Facebook, NC.A posted a teaser for Vanilla Shake showing her in a short haircut and later posted that it would be released the 20th of the same month.
On July 20 NC.A released her new song Vanilla Shake and Jeong Jae Yong and NS Yoon-G were featured in the MV.
She released the OST "Instinct×Instinct24 August 2015 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracks1Instinct3:052Instinct (inst.)3:05" for the drama The Law of the Jungle on the 23rd.
NC.A was cast in the drama Three by Three together with Fiestar's Jei and Dal Shabet's Jiyul.
Through the project to fund albums Makestar, NC.A released her first Korean studio album Time to Be A Woman×Time to be a woman28 October 2016 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 10 tracks1Next Station3:502Hoo Hoo Hoo3:443U in Me3:224Vanilla Shake3:335Coming Soon3:166Cinderella Time3:357Crazy You3:118How Long Time..3:449Instinct3:0510Next Station (inst.)3:50 that will be released in October 2016.
In October 2017, NC.A participated on South Korean survival reality show, The Unit. The concept of the show is to form male and female unit groups of nine members each, among idols who had already debuted. On the last episode NC.A ranked #3, thus making her one of the nine members of the temporary girlgroup Uni.T.