SOMI

Ennik Somi Douma (born March 9, 2001), known by her Korean name Jeon So-mi (Korean: 전소미) or mononymously as Somi, is a Canadian-Dutch-Korean singer and songwriter based in South Korea. After finishing seventh in MNET's survival reality program Produce and debuting in South Korean girl group ST✹R, she made her debut as a soloist on June 13, 2019 with the single "Birthday".

Early Life
Somi was born on March 9, 2001 in Ontario, Canada. She was born to her South Korean mother, Jeon Sun-hee, and her Dutch-Canadian father, Matthew Douma. Due to her mixed descent she was teased as child. When she was one years old she moved back to South Korea. Somi is also a taekwondo black-belt holder like her father as well. She enrolled in Hanlim Multi Art School in 2017 and graduated as of Feb 2020.

Pre-Debut
In 2013, she appeared on KBS2's Let's Go! Dream Team Season 2 as one of the representatives of Midong Elementary School's Taekwondo demonstration team. In 2014 Somi also had a cameo roll with her father and sister in Ode to My Father.

As of 2014 Somi joined JYP Entertainment after auditioning with 2NE1's "Lonely". In January 2015, Somi appeared in JYP's survival show SIXTEEN where she competed to be in JYP's upcoming girl group along 15 other girls. The group ended up being TWICE and she did not get in the final line-up. Today she is close with the members of TWICE.

Produce
In March 2015, Somi participated Produce 101 as a representative of JYP Entertainment, along with SHUA. She made her first appearance to the trainers with Megan Trainor's "Your Hips Are Moving" where she received grade C and a re-evaluation grade of B. She finished in seventh place with 757,973 votes and debuted with ST✹R with their first mini album 'FLOWER!' and the song 'VIOLETA'. Somi was not offered a dual trainee opportunity with YMC and so she left YMC and returned to JYP.

Scandal with RETRO FUTURE & Departure from JYP
In June of 2017, Shua along with 6 new girls debuted in JYP's new girl group RETRO FUTURE. This led to a scandal of fans wondering why Somi did not debut along with Shua who was also in ST✹R along with Somi. The next year, Somi announced her departure from JYP Entertainment. Her and the company had a mutual agreement and JYP terminated Somi's contract.

The Black Label & Solo Activities
In September of 2018, Sports Chosun announced that Somi was signing an exclusive contract with YG Entertainment's sub-label, The Black Label. Sports Chosun also reported that Somi was most likely to debut solo to speed up the process of debut.

A month after this, it was reported that Somi was working on music set to be released in June of 2019. On the 13th of June 2019, Somi debuted solo with the digital single + b-side 'BIRTHDAY'.