Lee Su-hyun

Lee Su-hyun (born May 4, 1999), is a South Korean singer.

Lee Su-hyun was born on May 4, 1999, in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

She and her older brother, Lee Chan-hyuk, moved to Mongolia at the Korean age of 10 and 13 respectively with their missionary parents.

Describing her childhood, she explained: "We liked going out to explore nature in Mongolia. Just beyond the city, there would be vast grasslands and cloud-filled skies."

Due to her family facing financial difficulties, the two siblings were unable to go to school for education and instead were home-schooled by their mother.

Her experience in Mongolia helped her brother and her to discover their talent for music, as sheer boredom from being home-schooled prompted them to start making music together.

Lee then learned the piano while her brother learned the guitar.

Additionally, while watching SBS variety program Star King, she found the voice of a girl named Shannon intriguingly beautiful, also triggering her to pursue music.

After residing in Mongolia for almost five years, Lee temporarily moved back to South Korea due to an issue with her visa.

During her stay, she took part in an audition and decided to remain there, her brother soon followed suit.

In August 2012, she and her brother auditioned for SBS' K-pop Star 2 as AKMU, soon finishing in first place and later signing under YG Entertainment.

Following her appearance on the second installation of SBS audition program K-pop Star alongside her brother, she debuted as the vocalist of the sibling duo AKMU on April 7, 2014, under YG Entertainment after winning the show.

In April 2014, they debuted with studio album, Play alongside three lead singles, "200%", "Give Love" and "Melted".

The digital single, "Time and Fallen Leaves", released in October also spawned to number one on the Gaon Digital Chart, solidifying their instantaneously commercial success.

They acquired multiple awards that year including "Best Pop Album" at the Korean Music Awards and "Song of the Year (April)" at the Gaon Chart Music Awards.

In November 2014, Lee and labelmate Lee Hi was formed as the project sub-unit, Hi Suhyun.

The duo released the digital single, "I'm Different" featuring labelmate Bobby of iKon and soon topped all domestic charts upon release including the Gaon Digital Chart.

They began promotions on November 16 through their first music show appearance on SBS' Inkigayo, and soon claimed their first win on November 23.

The duo were also nominated for multiple awards at the Seoul Music Awards including the "Bonsang", "Popularity Award" and Hallyu Special Award".

Lee also became a YouTuber through her channel, Leesuhyun, and a radio DJ for a KBS Cool FM show, AKMU Suhyun's Volume Up, where she received her first award at the 16th KBS Entertainment Awards for "Radio DJ Award".

She has also sung original soundtracks for Korean television dramas including It's Okay to Not Be Okay, and the Disney live action film Mulan.

She first voiced her interest in opening a YouTube channel once she's older through My Little Television in 2016.

She revealed on MBC's Omniscient Interfering View that upon seeing this, YG Entertainment formed a YouTube team for her as encouragement.

In September 2017, Chan-hyuk enlisted in the Korean Marine Corps, thereby AKMU going into hiatus.

Following media outlets revelation of a new show on May 23, 2017, Lee joined as a fixed cast member of OnStyle variety program Relationship Appeal, where she was joined by labelmates Sandara Park of 2NE1 and Lee Hi.

Her addition to the line-up also marked her first fixed appearance on a television show since debut.

Relationship Appeal consisted of 5 episodes and was aired within the time span of July to October 2017.

On May 25, 2017, Lee created the beauty YouTube channel, MochiPeach, and publicly uploaded her first-ever video on June 3.

Initially only uploading contents relating to beauty, she soon expanded her channel to cover materials including vlogs and music covers.

The show was aired through Netflix in November 2017 and soon on SBS in December 2017.

On December 27, 2017, Lee was confirmed to be the newest addition of the second installment of JTBC reality program Begin Again.

Initially with the show split into two teams while filming overseas separately in different locations, she was placed in the team consisting of Lena Park, Hareem and Henry Lau.

Begin Again 2 was filmed in areas located in Portugal and Hungary and began airing from March 30, 2018, to June 29, 2018.

Through her renewed appearance on the third installment of the Begin Again series, she became a series regular, remaining with her previous teammates alongside new addition, Kim Feel and Lim Heon-il.

Lee received the YouTube Gold Play Button in July 2019.

In August 2019, she renamed her channel to Leesuhyun, and garnered a total of 1.4 million subscribers as of December 2019.

Through the Netflix television series Temporary Idol, Lee made her acting debut by joining the main cast as a character depicting herself.

The web drama was joined by Kwon Hyun-bin, Kim Hee-jung, Hwang Seung-eon and Kwon Young-deuk through the joint production of YG Entertainment and Netflix.

Alongside Lee Hi, she was also part of the duo Hi Suhyun, formed in 2014, and debuted as a solo artist on October 16, 2020, with the digital single "Alien".

In television she has appeared as a series regular on reality music programs including Begin Again as well as a judge on the audition program Superband.