It was in 2014 when we first saw Lisa as a product endorser when she joined iKON’s B.I. She even had a chance to perform live, predebut, on music shows to promote “Black”. For one, Jennie continued to lend her voice to her seniors – this time to Big Bang’s Seungri for the song, “GG BE’ and G-Dragon’s “Black” for their respective comebacks. Regardless of the delay that year, the revealed members were still seen on some of YG artists’ projects. He further disclosed that the members are multilingual who are fluent in Korean, English and Japanese. Unfortunately, Kim Euna dropped out and left the agency before the supposed debut. He said that they are planning to debut the girls on October 2013 with the remaining 6 members adopting an unconventional debut promotion. Though the girls were supposed to debut early that year, YG later announced another postponement through “FROM YG” on June 19. Moreover, Jennie was featured on “Special”, a track from Lee Hi’s first full-length album. In the video, Jennie is seen sing-rapping to Lotus Flower Bomb by Wale feat. A few days after, a new practice video of Jennie Kim was unveiled to the public. The agency revealed her as the second official member of the upcoming girl group along with 2 new photos. YG started 2013 by naming Mystery Girl #2 from the black and white teaser photo as Kim Jisoo. August 31st, Jennie stars in the music video of G-Dragon, for his song 'That XX'.Reports back then claim that the girls were set to debut that year on September with more than 7 members but for unknown reasons was pushed back January 2013. In the video they revelead her name, age and the languages she speaks.In the video the also used the original name of the group, which was PinkPunk.
August 29th, a video of Jennie is posted on the official YG channel. The first picture of Jisoo was revelead on 4th May of 2012, under the caption "Who's that girl?".Ī few days later, on the 11th a video and picture of Lisa was posted as well, again using the caption 'Who's that girl?'. On the 10th, a picture of Jennie was posted under the caption 'Who's that girl?'. Slowly the original line-up of 7 girls decreased to 5. Later both of them got dropped from the girl group. On the 6th of April 2012, a video of two trainees, Kim Eunbi and Kim Euna was posted. Rosé was the last one to become a trainee, as she joined the agency in May of 2012, after passing the auditions in Australia. She explained in an interview, that every one in her family likes to sing, so she wanted to became a singer.
Jisoo became a trainee at YG in July of 2011. Lisa signed to be a trainee in September/October of 2010, after she placed 1st at the YG auditions held in Thailand. Making her the first among the now-members to join the agency. Jennie became a trainee in August of 2010. Following him mentioning a new girl group in the making (Nov 8), on the 21st, YG posted a teaser picture about a trainee, named Kim Eunbi, who was set to debut with the girls. Yang Hyun Suk first mentioned creating a new girl group, back in November of 2011. 4 2018–2019: International breakthrough and first world tour.3 2017 As If It's Your Last, Japanese debut.