Soyeon
- Name
- Not confirmed yet
- Born
- 4 May 1994
Comes from Gwangju and produced the 2018 single album Between Us.
Their story
Four years of training
NH Media, the company behind U-KISS, and Nega Network, home of Brown Eyed Girls, announced a joint girl group in August 2014. The six members had trained for about four years. Yujeong, the eldest, had even debuted once before in a short-lived vocal group. They took their name from the French for "the party" and debuted on 28 August with Petit Macaron and the sweet "Pit-A-Pat".
Hwi Hwi and a first win
The early years were steady rather than spectacular: single albums such as Aalow Aalow and Fresh Adventure, then the first EP, Love Sign, in 2016. Fans paid for parts of the work themselves through crowdfunding. The turning point came in April 2017 with "Hwi Hwi". On 28 April it won Music Bank, LABOUM's first music show trophy, while Solbin, one of the show's hosts that year, cried through the encore.
A song that came back
Yulhee left in 2017 and the group carried on as five, releasing their only studio album, Two of Us, in 2019. Then something unusual happened. Their 2016 song "Journey to Atlantis" crept back up the charts in early 2021, and in May Yoo Jae Suk's MSG Wannabe sang it on How Do You Play?. The next day it was No. 1 on Bugs' realtime chart, five years after release.
Where they are now
The timing was difficult. The contracts with their old agency ran out that summer, and leader Yujeong left in September 2021. Soyeon, Jinyea, Haein and Solbin signed with the new label Interpark Music Plus and released Blossom, led by "Kiss Kiss", that November. In 2022 the agency said no decision on disbanding had been made, but by September the group was on an indefinite break. Since then the members have worked separately, Jinyea and Haein with new agencies.