Chun Sang Ji Hee The Grace

Tenjo Chiki promoting Dear... (2009)

天上智喜 The Grace (천상지희 The Grace or Chun Sang Ji Hee The Grace in Korea, Tenjo Chiki in Japan) is a 4-member female pop/acapella group formed by SM Entertainment. Their former Korean name was simply 천상지희, Chun Sang Ji Hee, and their new official English name is simply The Grace.

The group consists of former soloist DANA, Jiyeon (now going by the name of Lina) from duet Isak N Jiyeon, soloist Sunday, and Stephanie who was picked-up through auditions in the United States.

Members

• Sunday (aka: Sunday The Grace, 智聲 Sunday, Zhi Sheng Sunday, Ji Sung Sunday)
• LINA (aka: LINA The Grace, 上美 LINA, Shang Mei LINA, Sung Mi LINA, Jiyeon)
• DANA (aka: DANA The Grace, 喜悅 DANA, Xi Yue DANA, Hee Yul DANA)
• Stephanie (aka: Stephanie The Grace, 天舞 Stephanie, Tian Wu Stephanie, Chun Moo Stephanie)

Information

Tenjo Chiki promoting Boomerang (2006)

Prior to the group's official debut in April 2005, the four girls sang a song together on the album 2004 Summer Vacation in SMTOWN.com.

The concept of the group's name is from fellow SMTOWN group, Tong Vfang Xien Qi, where each character in the group's name comes from the former stage name of each group member: Chun Moo Stephanie, Sang Mi Lina, Ji Sung Sunday, and Hee Yul Dana.

Like many of their fellow SM artists, the group aims to take all of Asia by storm, focusing on Korea, Japan, and China. Helping them in their goal are the multilingual skills of their members: Stephanie is fluent in English, Sunday is fluent in Japanese, and Dana and Lina are studying Chinese, with Dana majoring in the subject.

As benchmarks in their goal of reaching all of Asia, the group had their debut performance in China on April 29, 2005 with the single "Too Good". The single was not successful, and the group soon began to perform their second song, "Boomerang", which had a sexier image and allowed them to also show their dancing skills. In March of 2006, a Chinese version of their first single was released, with Chinese versions of "Too Good" and "Boomerang", as well a Chinese version of the song "Baram (Fight To The End)", which had originally been one of DANA's solo songs, but had been re-recorded by the four women before officially becoming a group, for the 2004 Summer Vacation in SMTOWN.

Chun Sang Ji Hee promoting One More Time, OK? (2007)

After the promotion in China, Cheon Sang Ji Hee The Grace moved onto Japan. The group announced that they would be releasing their debut Japanese single at the end of January, 2006. "Boomerang" was re-recorded with Japanese lyrics, and the single included "Do You Know?", a solo song by Sunday.

For their second single, "The Club", the group released it simultaneously in Japan and Korea. The Japanese release of "The Club" features Japanese rapper SEAMO, while the Korean release features Korean R&B star RAIN. The singles sold poorly but they continue to work and released their third japanese single "Sweet Flower". Like the previous two singles, this one also included a solo track by one of the members and this time it was LINA and her song "Rock'n'Roll Star". "Sweet Flower" was used as the April opening theme for the TBS show CDTV and did even worse than the previous singles ranking at #151 on the Oricon charts and selling 572 copies. "juicy LOVE" was the next single to be released, featuring Japanese reggae singer CORN HEAD. The single was coupled with "Sayonara no Mukou ni", a ballad written and sung by DANA.

Tenjo Chiki promoting Graceful 4 (2007)

The group returned to korea to release their third Korean single, "Passion (My Everything)". They underwent a slight name change to Chun Sang Ji Hee The Grace. The girls' individuals stage names also changed. Instead of having the individual Chinese names attached to their names, they would be simply Stephanie The Grace, Lina The Grace, Sunday The Grace, and Dana The Grace. The change was made to "emphasize the image of an acapella group based on abundant ability and fantastic harmony". In May of 2007 Cheon Sang Ji Hee released their first full-length korean album, "One More Time, OK?". After the promotions, the group returned to Japan to release their fifth single, "Piranha". It did a lot better than their previous singles, ranking at #50 on the Oricon charts and selling 2,466 copies in Japan and 2,170 in South Korea. In November released their first full-length japanese album, "Graceful 4".

Tenjo Chiki promoting Here (2008)

During 2008, the group released another single entitled "Stand Up People" which was used as the ending theme for the TV show "Downtown DX". It ranked #49 on the Oricon charts and sold 2,280 copies. After three months Tenjo Chiki did a collaboration with the group CLIFF EDGE and released a new single, "Here". It was used as the theme song for the movie "Homeless Chuugakusei" and as the opening theme song for the TV show "Sakigake! Ongaku Banduke ~JET~". It ranked #18 on the Oricon charts and sold 16,076 copies, making it their most successfull single so far.

2009 started with their second japanese album, "Dear...", which included the singles "Stand Up People" and "Here". One of the songs of the album, "Sukoshi de Ikara", was used in "Subaru" movie. The album did better than "Graceful 4" by ranking at #37 on the Oricon charts and selling 4,734 copies.

Korean Discography

Albums

• [2007.05.04] One More Time, OK? (한번 더, OK?)

Singles

• [2005.04.29] Too Good
• [2006.03.08] The Club
• [2006.11.03] Passion (My Everything) (열정)

Others

• [2004.06.29] 2004 Summer Vacation in SMTOWN.com (#7 Fight To The End (DANA，Jiyeon，Sunday，Stephanie)
• [2006.06.21] '06 SUMMER SMTOWN (#6 Catch the Shooting Star)
• [2006.12.11] 2006 WINTER SMTOWN (#4 Dreams Come True)

Japanese Discography

Albums

• [2007.11.14] Graceful 4
• [2009.01.04] Dear... (mini-album)

Singles

• [2006.01.25] Boomerang
• [2006.03.08] The Club
• [2006.04.26] Sweet Flower
• [2006.07.12] juicy LOVE
• [2007.08.01] Piranha
• [2008.07.23] Stand Up People
• [2008.10.22] Here (Tenjo Chiki//CLIFF EDGE)

Others

• [2006.08.23] Backdancers! Original Soundtrack (#4 Get on the floor (Tenjo Chiki & Dogma))

Other Works

• EXR Progressive (Models)

External Links

• Tenjo Chiki Official Site
• Chun Sang Ji Hee Official Site
• KoME Artist File