Kwon Eun-bi
권은비- Name
- Kwon Eun-bi
- Born
- 27 September 1995
Led IZ*ONE from 2018 to 2021 and was the first of its members to debut as a soloist.
Their story
From leader to soloist
Kwon Eun-bi had already debuted once, in 2014 with the short-lived group Ye-A, before Produce 48 made her the leader of IZ*ONE. When the project ended in April 2021, she stayed with Woollim Entertainment and was the first of the twelve to go solo. Open came out on 24 August 2021, four months after the farewell concert, with "Door" as its title track. Two more mini albums followed within a year: Color with "Glitch" and Lethality with "Underwater".
The summer that changed things
The real turn came from a festival rather than a release. In June 2023 she played Waterbomb in Seoul, clips of her set spread fast, and "Underwater", by then eight months old, climbed back into the charts. Korean media started calling her the "Waterbomb goddess" and "summer queen". She used the moment: the single album The Flash arrived in August, and days later she won The Show, her first music show trophy as a soloist.
Summer singles and festivals
From then on her calendar followed the seasons. Sabotage was another June release in 2024, digital singles such as "Snowfall" and "Hello Stranger" came out in 2025, and festival stages kept her busy between records. In interviews she has said she is truly grateful to be known as the "summer queen" of Waterbomb, but that at times her looks drew more attention than her music, and she wants the songs to be heard as well.
Where she is now
Her Woollim contract ran out on 31 March 2026, and in April she signed with RBW, the company behind MAMAMOO. "Dejavu", a breezy disco-pop single, came out on 3 September as her first music in a year and four months. In the interviews around it she said the IZ*ONE members had talked about a reunion for their tenth anniversary in 2028, and put the odds at better than even.