Yves
하수영- Name
- Ha Soo-young
- Born
- Not confirmed yet
Worked directly on the songs of her fourth EP, NAIL, which uses the nail as an object to record her own sensibility.
Their story
Away from the obvious
After she left Blockberry Creative in 2023, Yves took her time. In spring 2024 she signed with Paix Per Mil, a small label founded by the producer millic, and on 29 May she released Loop. Its four songs lean on house rhythms and alternative pop, and the title track, with the rapper Lil Cherry, is about wanting to escape a routine you still secretly like. She told reporters she did not want her voice tied to a single term.
Found abroad first
Her second EP, I Did, arrived in November 2024 with the hyper-pop single "Viola", and a few weeks later her first solo tour opened in Berlin. The album landed on Billboard's staff list of the year's best K-pop records. The bigger surprise came in early 2025, when "Dim" went viral on TikTok and topped its Viral 50 chart. More than 400,000 TikTok videos used the song, and NME had already put "Loop" on its list of the 25 best K-pop songs of 2024.
Electric pop
For Soft Error in August 2025 she chose electronic music, which she knew was not the mainstream route. The title refers to a temporary error that goes away once the device is running again. "White Cat" was the friendly single; "Soap" brought in PinkPantheress, a link that started when overseas fans mentioned Yves at a PinkPantheress fan meeting. On NAIL, released in April 2026 with Lolo Zouaï on the title track, she worked directly on the songs.
Where she is now
The NAIL era took her to nine European cities in April and then back to the Americas: fourteen shows in May and June 2026, from Vancouver through New York and Toronto to São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Bogotá. She has said she will keep trying to be an artist who offers comfort through music. Two and a half years after Loop, she is still with Paix Per Mil and has four EPs out under her own name.