Chocolat commonly stylized as ChoColat, is a South Korean girl group

Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

 created by Paramount Music in 2011. Their group name means "Chocolate" in french. The group consists of five members, three are mixed race Korean, (Juliane, Tia, Melanie) , and the other two are Korean (Min Soa, Jae Yoon).

Debut

Announced as the first mixed race girl group in South Korea, the group debuted with their 1st digital single "Syndrome (신드롬 )" on August 17th 2011 and on live music programs M! Countdown

M! Countdown

M! Countdown is a South Korean music television program broadcast by M.net. It airs live every Thursday at 6:00PM KST. The show features some of the latest and most popular artists who perform live on stage. It is hosted by Tony An and Girls' Generation's Sooyoung...

 on August 18, 2011.

Critical Response

Netizens have criticized the group for "lipsyncing" during some live performances. Juliane was also criticized for not singing the high notes in her part. However, it was later confirmed that Juliane was not allowed to sing high notes due to the fact that the kind of microphone she was using was not appropriate and might result in a sound system failure.

Group Members

Name	Birth Name	Birthday	Position	Nationality/Ethnicity
Min Soa	Choi Minji	10 June 1989 (age 22)	Leader, Lead Vocalist	Korean
Jaeyoon	Lee Euijeong	15 May 1991 (age 20)	Main Vocalist	Korean
Juliane	Juliane Alfieri	12 December 1993 (age 18)	Vocalist	American/Korean
Tia	Tia Hwang	15 March 1997 (age 14)	Vocalist, Main Dancer, Visual	American/Korean
Melanie	Melanie Lee	5 May 1997 (age 14)	Vocalist, Maknae	American/Korean

Discography

Album #	Album information	Tracklisting
1st	"Chocolat, First Single Album" Released: August 17, 2011 Language: Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...	"신드롬 (Syndrome)"