Hyolyn
김효정- Name
- Kim Hyo-jung
- Born
- 11 December 1990
Wrote and composed five of the seven songs on OriginaLyn, including "ChecK".
Their story
Solo inside SISTAR
Hyolyn released her first solo album while she was still leading SISTAR. Love & Hate came out on 26 November 2013, a day after the single "Lonely". Its lead song "One Way Love", produced by Brave Brothers, is hip hop R&B with a touch of tango, and actor Yoo Yeon-seok played the man in the video. On release day Starship said the album was No. 1 on the real-time charts of Melon, Mnet, Bugs and other sites, and the song entered the Billboard K-pop Hot 100 at No. 1.
Going on alone
A mini album, It's Me, followed in 2016. In May 2017 Starship ended SISTAR, and that September she said she would carry on by herself rather than sign with another agency. She founded her own label, bridʒ, and released the single "To Do List" in February 2018 and the EP Say My Name in 2020.
Queendom and iCE
In 2022 she was the only soloist among the six acts on Mnet's Queendom 2, and in July she released the EP iCE. Around it she talked about her "Summer Queen" nickname: she admitted it put pressure on her, since it had first belonged to all four members of SISTAR. In January 2024 she and Bora brought back SISTAR19 with "No More (Ma Boy)".
Where she is now
After the single "Standing On The Edge" in December 2025 she returned on 22 July 2026 with OriginaLyn, her fourth mini album and first in four years, released through her own company ReH Entertainment. She took part in producing all seven songs and wrote and composed five, among them the title track "ChecK", a take on Y2K pop co-written with The Stereotypes. Much of it is in English. She said she wanted to bring back the sound of Destiny's Child, Usher and Missy Elliott that made her want to sing, and to show herself as she is.