WAYV - TEN
TEN is an artist of Thai origin and has been with SM ENTERTAINMENT since 2016. His full name is Ten Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul (ชิตพลลี้ชัยพรกุล). He officially begins in the group NCT, in the NCT U sub-unit, which is also the first sub-unit to start in 2016, the year of the beginnings of the NCT project, will follow NCT 127 and NCT DREAM, then WAYV more late.
A few years later, he will join the group founded by the same agency in 2019, SUPERM, which is a group aimed at bringing together the most “talented” artists of the agency.
But, TEN was already known in his home country long before his official debut with the agency. Indeed, he was on the show “Teen Superstar” in 2011, when he was only 15 years old. During this Thai show, he had the opportunity to shoot a “Change” MV with other artists, so that he could showcase his talent in terms of voice, and even dance. He also finished first on the show.
Subsequently, he joined SM ENTERTAINMENT in 2013, shortly after his show, to become SM ROOKIES in 2014.
In 2016, he officially made his debut at NCT U, with the title song “The 7th sens“, which gives an air of mysticism and power at the same time, thus revealing the talents of each member.s.
NCT U 엔시티 유 ‘일곱 번째 감각 (The 7th Sense)’
This is the same year that we have the opportunity to learn more about him and his origins. Indeed, SM ENTERTAINEMENT having organized a show with NCT called “NCT Life“, it is a whole season devoted to Thailand, in Bangkok, that we are brought with TEN, throughout the episodes. The artist will show us his old school, introduce us to food, in short take us on a trip to his native country. We will even find there that he has a talent for drawing.
TEN turns out to be an exceptional dancer in addition to drawing. In 2016, he also participated in the dance show “Hit the Stage” with other artists such as TAEMIN, moreover, the latter will be very interested in TEN, and will ask to meet him in person in the program. TEN then showed various stages and various styles of dance, while impressing each of the juries, with his own style.
TEN is a very flexible dancer, capable of a lot of things in terms of movement, he can handle his body and each of his limbs in a very artistic and sophisticated way. It is also for his dancing style that TEN is known, and is one of the lead dancers on NCT, WAYV and SUPERM.
Hit The Stage 우승! NCT 텐, 무대를 지휘하다 160831 EP.6
[Hit The Stage] (Sudden Crush) NCT TEN
Hit The Stage (액션)암살자 NCT 텐의 놀라운 능력! 160921 EP.9
After her dance, it is her voice’s turn to be much more highlighted in 2017, with the release of the song “Dream in a dream“, which is the result of SM Station (project of SM ENTERTAINMENT, of release singles from their artists). Throughout the MV of this song, TEN not only stays true to himself with a very poetic dance style, but manages to captivate everyone with his very soft voice throughout the song. All of this is in English, and TEN is also very good at languages, being able to speak many languages to this day, English, Korean, Chinese, and even a little Japanese.
This is not the only SM Station that the artist will be releasing, there will be in 2018, “New heroes” to follow.
TEN shows himself to be an artist with multiple talents. We can see him mastering the dance with ease, singing, rapping, drawing … As for dancing, he also gave fans a few covers that he posted on NCT’s SNS. He also posted on WAYV’s channel, videos in which we see him drawing, and even, in 2020, he did the designs for some of the group’s goodies.
[WayV-log] Small part of TEN [WayV-log] 🎨Designer TEN is back!
He also did the WAYV logo himself for the band’s show “Rainbow V“, as well as a dance cover with WINWIN, once again showing us all the poetry in the style of the two boys reunited.
[Rainbow V] TEN X WINWIN Choreography : lovely (Billie Eilish, Khalid) (ring and portrait remix)
The artist is also in SUPERM, we have seen over the course of his last years how much talent TEN had to spare, he had the opportunity to perform solo, during the concerts of this group, his two SM Stations , in addition to doing the rest of the performances with the group.
SuperM Performance Video : TEN X TAEMIN X KAI
He also had a collaboration with DJ GINJO accompanied by XIAOJUN, another member of WAYV. From this collaboration came out single “The riot”, in 2020.
GINJO ‘The Riot (Feat. TEN, XIAOJUN of WayV)’ Promotion Video
He was part of the two major projects of NCT, NCT 2018, and NCT 2020, being featured in various song titles of the albums coming out of this project, such as “Baby don’t stop“, with TAEYONG for NCT 2018, or even “90’s love” with NCT U for NCT 2020, with the album “RESONANCE”, which consists of two parts.
Happy birthday to TEN.
Journalist: Kimi2171
Translator: Shawn
Source: SNS WAYV/NCT/SUPERM
