Dangerous Woman - BTS 8th Member

Backstory/Timeline

Chu Grace was born to a Korean father and British mother in Manchester, United Kingdom. Her father was part of a technological company and travelled the world as a salesman, meeting Grace's mother in London where they both married and moved to Manchester as part of his job.

Chu Grace was born on 14th May 1990

Aged 2, she began ballet lessons at her mother's instruction

Homeschooled from the age of five to combine Korean/British curriculum together

Began ballroom dancing around the age of 6, just before moving to Germany

With her parents, Grace moved to Berlin at the age of 7 (1997)

Began to learn the basics of German along with her normal studies and continued her ballroom dancing lessons with ballet dancing

At the age of 10 (2000), the family moved to Suwon-Si to be closer to her grandparents as well as part of her father's job and that's where they settled for a year. After a year, they moved to Seoul and have remained there ever since.

She was homeschooled until the age of 13 when she joined a middle school at the Dulwich College Seoul and completed high school there.

She finished her education at the age of 18 in 2008 and joined BigHit at the age of 19, a year later.

While she originally auditioned at BigHit for her dancing and her singing, she was hired more for background vocals and as an assistant which was her first paying job. Her English skills came in useful for other idols and other staff

In 2010, RM was signed to BigHit and BTS or BPB as it was known, was started. Bang Si-Hyuk asked Grace to mentor Namjoon, especially for English even though he was already proficient at it. These two would be the first members of BTS, though Grace was added to the line-up after Jungkook.

Yoongi joined just before J-Hope in December 2010 and therefore the rap-line was complete.

Grace, during this time, began learning rapping to further the background vocals that might be needed.

Seokjin and then Jungkook were added to the lineup and finally Grace was introduced as a member - solely for background vocals, sub-rapping, her dancing and then finally, visuals. The contract for her was signed separately as BigHit were worried a hip-hop group with a female member wouldn't work and so they signed her for only two albums.

Taehyung then Jimin were added to the line-up and the eight members of BTS were complete.

June 13th 2013 - BTS officially debut with their first performance of No More Dream.