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Lee Soon Kyu (Hangul 이순규; Hanja 李順圭), known as Sunny, was born on May 15, 1989. She is a South Korean singer, of 9-member girl group Girls' Generation (소녀시대), formed by SM Entertainment in 2007. Sunny and the other eight members of her group debuted on August 5, 2007.

Biography
Sunny was born in United States of America, moved to Kuwait and later to South Korea. In 1998, Sunny entered Starlight (one of SM Academy) and became a trainee for 5 years before transferring to Starworld where she was became a member of a duet called "Sugar" which never debuted. In 2007, she was then recommended by Ayumi, who transferred to SME. After several months of training under SM Entertainment, Sunny debuted as a member of Girls' Generation that same year. She was a co-DJ of ChunJi until the broadcast ended in July 2008.

She is also the niece of Lee Soo Man, the founder of SM Entertainment. She also revealed that her dad was in Hwaljooro, the famous college band with Bae Chul-soo, a famous radio DJ and the host of show 7080.

She has a phobia of fireworks due to the Gulf War, which happened in Kuwait when her family was living there and while she was still very young.

Solo Activities
Sunny alongside with Yuri are part of reality show "Invincible Youth", which they will be part of G7 (consisting of 7 girls from popular idol groups). She also sung a duet with member Sooyoung called "Happy Me", "Finally Now" on the soundtrack for the movie "Story of Wine", "Your Doll" for the "Oh! my lady OST", a duet with Taeyeon, "SarangInGulYo!" (aka "It's Love"), "Motion" with her fellow members Seohyun, Jessica, Tiffany, and Taeyeon,    "S.E.O.U.L. Song" with Super Junior's Kyuhyun, Ryeowook, Sungmin and Donghae and fellow group members Seohyun, Sooyoung, Jessica and Taeyeon. Sunny appeared in Super Junior-H's music video for "Cooking? Cooking!". She also co-hosted a music show called "The M" with SS501's Hyungjoon and 2AM's Seulong but had to say goodbye to the show due to her busy schedules. Her last appearance as an MC for the show was on April 4th, 2010.

In April 2010, she sang 그대 인형 for "Oh! My Lady OST".