Lee Given (Korean: 이지은; born May 16, 1993), known properly as IU (Korean: 아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and also starlet. The name IU is a mix of 'I' and also 'you' indicating you, and also I turn into one through songs. She signed with Aka M (formerly LOAN Amusement, currently Aka Home entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a vocalist at the age of fifteen with her first mini album Shed and Found (2008). Although her follow-up CDs, Growing Up as well as IU... I'm, brought mainstream success, it sought the release of Great Day (Korean: 좋은 날), the lead solitary from her 2010 album Actual, that she achieved nationwide stardom. Good Day took place to spend 5 successive weeks on top placement of South Korea's Gain Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was rated leading on Signboard's 100 Biggest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s list. With the success of her 2011 albums, Real+ and Last Dream, IU established herself as an awesome force on the songs charts...