Soyeon
전소연- Name
- Jeon So-yeon
- Born
- 26 August 1998
Co-wrote and co-composed every track on her first full album, What a Wonderful Life.
Their story
Before the group
Soyeon's solo career is older than her group. After Produce 101 and Unpretty Rapstar 3 in 2016, Cube released "Jelly" on 5 November 2017, a song she co-wrote with Flow Blow about a happiness that feels like bouncing on jelly. Labelmates from Wanna One and PENTAGON turned up in the video. Six months later she debuted as the leader of (G)I-DLE and wrote its first single, "Latata".
Windy
Her first mini album came in July 2021, in the middle of a run of i-dle hits she had written. Windy has five songs, co-produced with Pop Time. She wrote the title track "Beam Beam" herself, a summer song that throws rock and hip-hop together, and brought in BIBI and Lee Young-ji for another track. Abroad it went to No. 1 on iTunes in 21 regions.
Five years later
Then she went back to writing for the group, from "Tomboy" to "Queencard". She later admitted she had put off a full solo album for a long time. What a Wonderful Life arrived on 7 September 2026: eight songs across rock, hyperpop and disco, every one co-written and co-composed by her with Groovyroom and R.Tee. She planned, filmed and edited the video for "STAR" herself, and the physical album came packaged as an incense holder.
Where she is now
The title track, "I'm gonna TOESA", is an easygoing band song about walking out of your job, narrated by Kian84 and modelled on a 2007 song by the band EX. It started slowly and kept climbing in commuting hours until it reached No. 1 on Melon, Genie and Bugs. In September she took it to university festivals, and in October it won four music shows, from M Countdown on 1 October to Inkigayo on 11 October. She still leads i-dle.