Lana (라나; stylized as LANA) is a Russian singer-songwriter and rapper under HiCC. Based in South Korea, she debuted as the first solo Russian idol on June 27, 2019 with the single "Take The Wheel". Lana was born and raised in the town of Poronaysk in the far eastern regions of Russia on Sakhalin island. Her father is half Tatar. Lana dreamed of becoming a singer from an early age. After watching the drama Boys Over Flowers, she found the Korean language and pronunciation beautiful, and after initially self-studying the language, she travelled to Korea to learn the language following her high school graduation in 2014.

Lana was born and raised in the town of Poronaysk in the far eastern regions of Russia on Sakhalin island. Her father is half Tatar. Lana dreamed of becoming a singer from an early age. After watching the drama Boys Over Flowers, she found the Korean language and pronunciation beautiful, and after initially self-studying the language, she travelled to Korea to learn the language following her high school graduation in 2014. She officially made her debut as a soloist on June 27, 2019 with the digital single "Take The Wheel".

Between September and October 2019 , Lana landed several television appearances: on September 11, Lana made her first guest appearance since becoming a solo singer in Episode 48 of the television quiz show, Korean Foreigner. A week later, on September 23, Lana made a quest appearance on the television show, Hello Counselor. Next month, on October 11, Lana was featured as a guest on the television show, Ecoman along with Bora of SISTAR. And finally on October 29, she was featured as a guest singer on Gayo Stage where she sang trot singer Shim Soo-bong's "Million Roses".

On December 9, 2019, Lana made her first comeback with the diss track single, "Make It Real". The song was not teased and dropped without any prior notice. The song also marks her first rap and hip-hop release.

Personal life

Prior to moving to Korea, Lana attended the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow, Russia. She then went onto studying Korean in a language school for a year before entering university to study Political Science and Diplomacy at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea and received a scholarship.

Trivia

Lana is the first Russian idol to make a solo debut in the K-pop industry.
She is a quarter Tatar through her father's ancestry.
She is fluent in Russian, Korean and English.
She trained for 2 years before debuting.
Lana is skilled in dance and knows ballet, jazz, waltz and traditional Russian folk dance.v She has been learning dance from an early age.
She can play the piano.
She graduated from the prestigious Russian Academy of Arts with straight A's.
She achieved a perfect credit score of 4.0 during the second semester of her first year of attending Sungkyunkwan University which earned her a scholarship.
In Korea, she joined a dance crew and did busking for three months.
Prior to becoming a trainee, she worked as a part-time model.

Digital singlesDigital singles

"Take The Wheel" (2019)
"Make It Real" (2019) - Kpop.Fandom