Chakra (band)

Chakra
Left to the right: Hwangbo, Eun, and Bona
Background information
Origin South Korea
Genres
Years active 2000-2006
Labels
  • Cream Records
  • Zam Entertainment
  • Kiss Entertainment
Associated acts Roo'ra
Past members

Chakra (Hangul: 샤크라) was a South Korean girl group that debuted in 2000 with four members: Hwangbo, Eun, Ryeowon, and Eani.[1] Following the release of their first album, the group won Best New Artist at several major South Korean music awards.[2]

After Eani left the group in 2001, new member Bona joined in 2002. Chakra ultimately released three more albums and disbanded in 2006.[1]

Career

2000: Debut and beginning of popularity

Chakra officially debuted on February 26, 2000 at Music Camp with their first single "Han", immediately calling attention, due to its concept inspired by India. In March of the year the group released their first solo album titled "Come A Come" with singles titled Come A Come, Hey You and Sign of Love. The album was a success and sold + 162,251 copies that led them to win many rookie awards in South Korea, including the SBS Music Awards, the Golden Disk Awards and the Mnet Asian Music Awards. That same year, Chakra released their special Christmas album entitled "Ringing Gingle Bells" with the main ballad single "Lonely Christmas". The original leader of Chakra Eani ranked third in the 41st place of Miss Korea and HwangBo 3rd place in Tae-Kondo (in addition to the black belt).

2001-2003: Increase in popularity and apogee

In 2001, it reached its apogee when they released their second album "Chakra'Ca" along with the main single "End" that became their first # 1 success in South Korea; included several music programs. The main theme focused on African music as the main concept of the album. The album sold + 86,635 copies and won in the category of Best Singer dressed in SBS Music Awards. The other success of this album was "Oh My Boy". At that time it was already very difficult to finance the group, due to a scam they suffered and happened to a new company called "Kiss intertaiment". In this process the leader Eani decided to leave the group at the end of 2001. That year HwangBo became the new leader and at the beginning of 2002 Bona joined.

In 2002 they released their third album "Chakra" with the first single from the album "Come Back". The other single of this album was "The" and "All".

In 2003, they released their last album before dissolving "Tomato" along with the first single "From Me To You, which was a success." The album sold 23,450 copies and at the end of the year, Chakra won again in the Best Dance category at the SBS Music Awards, from this album there are other famous songs like "True Love In This World Is A Live" and the ballad "Why Im The Only One".

2004: Period of transition and official dissolution

After the end of the promotions of the last album, in 2004 Ryeo-won left Chakra to continue her career as an actress and leave behind her years as a singer.

After about a year since the formal demotion, the rest of the members had to go through a really bad period. Kiss Entertainment demonstrated the extreme of incompetence. Unfortunately, three members, except Rye-won, did a short-term renovation.

In 2005, it is planned to release a new album and make new activities, but the album could not even be released, due to the company's financial difficulties. Chakra was squeezing and consuming images to the end with such low level planning power. Chakra members also suffered a lot of difficulties at this time, and the audience was almost indifferent to the actions of this Chakra triad; this caused Eun to leave the group. At that time, only Hwang Bo and Bona they remained as members of Chakra.

Finally, Chakra disappeared in the history of the music industry, declaring the official dissolution in the year 2006.

Members

Name Date of Birth Position Period
Romanization Hangul
Hwangbo 황보 August 6, 1980 Leader, Lead Vocalist, Main Rapper, Dancer, Visual 1999-2006
Bona 보나 June 11, 1982 Leader Lead Vocalist, Dancer 2002-2006
Eun 은 September 30, 1984 Vocalist, Dancer, Maknae 2000-2005
Ryeowon 려원 January 21, 1981 Vocalist, Principal Dancer 2000-2004
Eani 이니 May 18, 1979 First Leader, Sub Vocalist, Rapper, Dancer, Visual 1999-2001

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[3]
Come A Come
  • Released: March 2, 2000
  • Label: A&B Production, Cream Records
  • Format: CD, cassette
 6
  • KOR: 162,251+[4]
Chakra'ca
  • Released: March 8, 2001
  • Label: Jam Entertainment, Cream Records
  • Format: CD, cassette
 10
  • KOR: 85,351+[5]
Chakra
  • Released: October 10, 2002
  • Label: Jam Entertainment, Universal
  • Format: CD, cassette
 14
  • KOR: 31,894+[6]
Tomato
  • Released: August 21, 2003
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: CD, cassette
 13
  • KOR: 23,450+[7]

Awards

YearAwards
2000 SBS Music Awards: Best Female Rookie
Golden Disk Awards: Best Female Rookie
Mnet Asian Music Awards: Best New Group[8]
2001 SBS Music Awards: Popular Dressed Singer Award
2002 SBS Music Awards: Best Dance Award
2003 SBS Music Awards: Best Dance Award

Music programs

Inkigayo

Year Date Song
2000 April 30 "Come A Come"
2001 April 29 "End"

Music videos

Year Song Length
1999 "Win Win" 3:49
"Deja Vu" 4:24
2000 "Come A Come" 4:14
"Hey You" 4:16
"Lonely Christmas" 4:29
2001 "End" 3:49
"Oh My Boy" 3:26
2002 "Come Back" 4:01
2003 "From Me To You" 3:36

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "이은 샤크라 시절, 재벌 2세 남편 만날 당시 보니…". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  2. ↑ "샤크라 출신 이은 이혼설 '결혼 9년 만에 마침표'". Sports Q (in Korean). 2017-09-12. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  3. ↑ "K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
    • "Come A Come charting". Archived from the original on 2004-09-25.
    • "Chakra'ca charting". Archived from the original on 2007-07-18.
    • "Chakra charting". Archived from the original on 2008-12-05.
    • "Tomato charting". Archived from the original on 2004-08-09.
  4. ↑ "2000 K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on 2009-02-28. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  5. ↑ "First Half of 2001 K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  6. ↑ "October 2002 K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  7. ↑ "August 2003 K-pop Album Sales Volume" (in Korean). Recording Industry Association of Korea. Archived from the original on 2004-08-09. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  8. ↑ "2000 M.net Korean Music Festival Winners list" Archived 2014-08-03 at the Wayback Machine.. MAMA. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
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