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Flashback Lane: 2NE1

Crossed along the LG Electronics commercial campaign ad “Lollipop” with Big Bang last 2009, I looked up into one of the girls’ familiar face called Dara. It was then that I realized that this was the In-or-out girl Sandara Park. What is she doing in a 4-member girl group when she has a career in the Philippines? Let us all the remember the fire girls that struck our hearts on a first glance.

SANDARA PARK It was 2004 when a friend, Pauleen Luna encouraged Sandara to audition for Star Circle Quest, a reality-based talent search television program which she eventually finished in second place. Sandara then joined ABS-CBN's entertainment stable, Star Magic in the wake of her success in the show, with her projects ranging from commercial endorsements to television appearances. She then won "Best New Actress", her first acting award, at the 21st Philippine Movie Press Club Star Awards for her performance in her first film "Bcuz of U” (2004).

YG Entertainment offered Sandara workshop classes in South Korea after seeing the KBS Documentary My Name Is Sandara Park. In March 2005, Sandara accepted the offer, putting her career in the Philippines on hold. She later left the Philippines show business industry permanently and returned to South Korea with her family on August 1, 2007 and signed a contract with them the day after. To start a new life as she became the breadwinner of the family because of her father using the money she had for gambling and having another family besides them.

2NE1 YG formally announced that they’ll be debuting a 4 member girl group called 2NE1 – the name as meant as “To anyone” in English meaning 21st century and New Evolution on 2009. The members are CL (Lee Chae Rin), Park Bom, Dara (Sandara Park) and Gong Minzy

May 6, 2009 when 2ne1 finally debuted with song “Fire” which gained 1 million views within the first 24 hours of release and also topping on charts nationwide and chosen countries from around the world. They were called “Rookie Monsters” for achieving a lot of awards for a new artist. In fact, they were the first ever rookie group to win a daesang award, Song of the Year at the 2009 Mnet Music Asian Awards for their song “I Don’t Care” which is their second single.

2NE1’s CONTINUOUS AWARDS Over the summer of 2010, 2NE1 traveled to Los Angeles and London in order to record English songs for an American debut album with The Black Eyed Peas's member and music producer will.i.am and they recorded a total of 10 songs in their initial sessions.

September 9, 2010, 2NE1 released their first ever full length album “To Anyone” and debuted as top 7 on Billboard World Album Charts which contains 12 tracks, 3 of them are title tracks that were promoted simultaneously and received a total of 11 wins from music shows for the whole promotion.

At the end of 2010, 2NE1 took home the "Artist of the Year" award and the "Album of the Year" award at the 2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards, thus making them the only artist to win all 3 grand awards at the said award ceremony the only group to win 2 daesang awards at the same time.

2ne1 released their second EP with the title song “I Am The Best” that instantly went on top of the charts and them getting the Daesang “Song of the Year”award again in 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards. The group then took a break in promoting in Korea in preparations for their debut in Japan on September 2011.

The group then embarked on their first worldwide concert tour, the "New Evolution World Tour".The tour's first stop was made in Seoul on July 28, 2012, and made its first international stop in the United States on August 17 and ended in Singapore at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

February 26 2014, The group released their 2nd full length-album entitled “Crush” which includes 10 songs and 3 title tracks that were also promoted simultaneously. The album sets a new U.S record for "Highest Charting and Best Selling Kpop Album", beating other big groups like Girls' Generation and Big Bang. The group then had their 2nd worldwide concert tour, "All or Nothing World Tour", in support of their second studio album, “Crush”. The tour visits a total of 15 cities in 12 countries across East and Southeast Asia.

GROUP HIATUS

After a recent scandal outbreak on member Park Bom, the group had a hiatus on early 2014 and then had each member’s solo career with Bom on break.

Dara (Sandara), re-established her acting career throughout the web dramas “Dr.Ian” and “We Broke Up”, as well as KBS's “Missing You”. Being the dancer of the group, Minzy opened a dance school by the name of 'Millennium Dance Academy' during the hiatus. CL pushed through her solo debut in America and released the single "HELLO BI+CHES" from her upcoming EP Lifted

The group however made a surprise event when they perform their hit songs "Fire" and "I Am the Best" at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong. After CL's performance of her solo singles "The Baddest Female" and the newly released "HELLO BI+CHES", the performance is now the most-viewed MAMA performance by a girl-group but that didn’t mean that they’ll be having a comeback.

MINZY’S DEPARTURE, GROUP DISBANDMENT AND FINAL RELEASE

3 memorable dates were left in the heart of the Blackjacks (2ne1’s official fanclub name) on the year 2016 and 2017 when they hoped for a comeback but soon got their hearts broken when YG Entertainment confirmed that Minzy did not re-sign her contract and was officially leaving the group, and stated that the group will carry on as a trio. Fans were supportive of Minzy as much as the left members were to her when she voiced out her apologies on her birthday.

Still, Blackjacks were hoping for a comeback after hearing the news that 2ne1 will still continue as a trio but was again shattered when YG officially confirmed the disbandment of 2ne1 last November 25, 2016 since only CL and Dara were the only ones that renewed their contracts.

2ne1 however doesn’t want to leave Blackjacks out of nowhere and released a song for the last time as a thank you and goodbye for their fans entitled “Goodbye” written by member, CL which she also said that it was originally a song dedicated for ex-member Minzy.

Fans were still hoping for a reunion in the future since it is clearly seen that each member really love being a 2ne1 member. Dara still uses her 2ne1 mic whenever she performs songs (there are times when she still introduces herself as a 2ne1 member which is very heartwarming) , Bom is now interacting with some Blackjacks ensuring that she will still continue on singing and CL is currently touring around US singing their famous song “Come Back Home” as one the tracklist of every event.

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