(Chanyeol) Park Chan Yeol

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EXO

Park Chanyeol was born in Seoul, South Korea. He attended Hyundai High School in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul. He has a sister named Park Yoo-ra, who is currently an announcer at South Korean broadcasting station YTN, and previously at MBC. Chanyeol was admitted to a private acting institution when he was sixteen years old, where he became good friends with Block B's P.O.

After watching 'School of Rock' in elementary school, Chanyeol became interested in music and he soon began playing the drums. Chanyeol wanted to be a singer after listening to 'Unconditional Kismet' by Yoo Young-jin. When he was a first year student in middle school, he formed a band called "Heavy Noise" with his best friends and played with them for about three years. During his first years of high school, he was involved in his school's band, "Siren".

Chanyeol has cited Jason Mraz and Eminem as his biggest influences, though he was a fan of rock bands like Muse, Green Day, Nirvana, and X-Japan in middle school.

Chanyeol became a trainee under SM Entertainment after winning second place in the 2008 Smart Model Contest. While training under S.M., he began to turn his focus towards rapping. Prior to his debut, Chanyeol made cameo appearances in TVXQ's "HaHaHa Song" music video and Girls' Generation's "Genie" music video in 2008 and 2010 respectively.

Chanyeol became the last Exo member to be officially introduced to the public on February 23, 2012. The group official debuted on April 8, 2012 with the extended play 'Mama'. In April 2012, he made a guest appearance in Girls' Generation-TTS's music video for their debut single "Twinkle". In October 2013, Chanyeol joined the cast of SBS's reality TV show 'Law of the Jungle' during its filming in Micronesia. He also composed and recorded an original soundtrack titled "Last Hunter" for the show in 2015 after rejoining the show.

In 2014, Chanyeol wrote the rap for the Korean version of the track "Run" from Exo's second extended play 'Overdose' and was featured in label-mates Henry's second extended play and Zhou Mi's debut EP. In May 2014, he became a regular cast member of the first season of SBS's reality TV show 'Roommate'. He left the show in September 2014 due to schedule conflicts.

In April 2015, Chanyeol made his big screen debut with a supporting role in the South Korean film 'Salut d'Amour', which starred Park Geun-hyung and Youn Yuh-jung. He later starred as the male lead alongside actress Moon Ga-young and fellow Exo members in the web-drama 'Exo Next Door'. In June 2015, Chanyeol, along with fellow Exo members Chen and Lay, co-wrote the Korean version of the track "Promise" from 'Love Me Right', the re-released version of Exo's second studio album. He later wrote the rap for "Lightsaber", Exo's promotional single for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', which was subsequently included in their third extended play 'Sing for You'.

In February 2017 it was announced that Chanyeol had allegedly registered himself as a music producer under the pen name "LOEY" with the Korean Music Copyright Association. On October 9, 2019 he started up his youtube channel entitled "NNG" under his producer name 'Loey'. Shortly after it was announced his personal fandom name is NANUM.

On April 25, 2019, he released his first solo song "SSFW" through SM Station. On June 28th, it was confirmed that Chanyeol along with his fellow Exo member Sehun would debut as the group's second official sub-unit Exo-SC, and they released their first EP What a Life on July 22, 2019.

In 2021, he appeared in musical road film The Box, a jukebox musical containing familiar popular songs from world music as; Coldplay, Billie Eilish, and Pharrell Williams in the backdrop of South Korean locales.

On March 29, 2021, Chanyeol enlisted for compulsory military service.