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On stage in Seattle on 14 January 2026, Tzuyu holds a microphone in one hand with the other hand open and raised.Tzuyu쯔위
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Tzuyu

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Tzuyu is a member of the nine-member girl group TWICE. She was scouted at a dance-school recital in Tainan, Taiwan, and made her solo debut in September 2024 with her first mini album, abouTZU.

Group
TWICE
Agency
JYP Entertainment
Debut
20 October 2015
Born
14 June 1999

From a dance school in Tainan

Tzuyu is a member of the nine-member girl group TWICE. In 2012 she caught the eye of a JYP Entertainment scout at a dance school’s recital in Tainan, Taiwan (NOWnews), and after two auditions she became a trainee on 15 November that year (Liberty Times). On MBC every1’s Weekly Idol in 2015 she explained: “They happened to see me at a dance academy and cast me” (Maeil Shinmun).

Tzuyu as a solo artist

On 6 September 2024 she released her first mini album, abouTZU, with the title track ‘Run Away’. It was the third solo record to come out of TWICE, after Nayeon’s and Jihyo’s. The agency said the title joins the English word “about” with “TZUYU”. Tzuyu said: “Just like the album’s name, ‘everything about Tzuyu’, I took part in the album work myself, and hard. I also took part in the jacket shoot, to show as much of everything about me as I could” (Electronic Times).

The title track ‘Run Away’ has lyrics by J.Y. Park and music by a team of writers including Johnny Simpson, who has worked with Lauv and OneRepublic. Peniel of BTOB and pH-1 feature on the six tracks, and Tzuyu wrote the lyrics of the closing track, ‘Fly’, alone. On release day the album topped the iTunes album chart in eleven regions outside Korea and sold more than 220,000 copies in a day (Star News). On the radio she looked back on the preparation as feeling “like getting ready for an exam”, hard because it was the first time she had prepared an album from beginning to end herself (Xportsnews).

Stages in Taiwan

On the last of TWICE’s three concerts at the Taipei Dome in March 2026, Tzuyu said: “My dream was to come to Kaohsiung and Taipei with the members and hold concerts. Thank you for making my wish come true” (CNA). On 3 July she took the stage on the first day of the Kaohsiung Beer Music Festival for her first solo performance in Taiwan, singing ‘Run Away’, TWICE’s ‘What Is Love?’ and Stefanie Sun’s ‘第一天’ (“the first day”) (FTNN, NOWnews). On 8 September she was announced as a host of AAA 2026, the Asia Artist Awards, at Kaohsiung National Stadium on 5 and 6 December (Money Today).

Brands

In January 2022 the fashion brand ZOOC chose her as its muse for the year (Korea Duty Free News), and since that October she has been the muse of Visée, KOSÉ’s make-up brand in Japan (KOSÉ). In March 2026 7-ELEVEN in Taiwan made her the brand ambassador of 星級饗宴 (“star-rated feast”), a series developed with a hotel in Tainan (ETtoday).

Timeline

  1. Release

    Tzuyu's solo track 'DIVE IN' appears on the anniversary album TEN

    The tenth-anniversary special album carries one solo song by each of the nine members, and Tzuyu's is 'DIVE IN'.

    JYP Entertainment · Source 1
  2. Release

    Tzuyu makes her solo debut with the mini album abouTZU

    J.Y. Park wrote the words of the title track 'Run Away', and Tzuyu wrote the closing track 'Fly' alone. The album title joins the English word about and TZUYU.

    JYP Entertainment · Source 2
  3. Release

    Tzuyu sings '1, 3, 2', one of TWICE's first unit songs, with Jeongyeon and Mina

    One of three unit tracks on the third studio album Formula of Love. The agency introduced them as the first unit songs TWICE had released.

    JYP Entertainment · Source 3
Group

TWICE

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TWICE

JYP Entertainment

TWICE are a nine-member JYP Entertainment girl group: Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung and Tzuyu. They debuted on 20 October 2015 with 'Like OOH-AHH', and in April 2026 became the first artist from outside Japan to hold a solo concert at Tokyo's National Stadium.

Sources

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    JYP Entertainment Tzuyu's solo track 'DIVE IN' appears on the anniversary album TEN· 10 Oct 2025 Timeline
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    JYP Entertainment Tzuyu makes her solo debut with the mini album abouTZU· 6 Sept 2024 Timeline
  3. 03
    JYP Entertainment Tzuyu sings '1, 3, 2', one of TWICE's first unit songs, with Jeongyeon and Mina· 12 Nov 2021 Timeline

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