Sunmi

Lee Sun-mi (이선미), known as Sunmi (선미), has spent nearly two decades in Korean pop refusing to fit neatly into any category. A founding member of Wonder Girls, she left the group in 2010 to pursue her education before returning in 2015, then departing again when the group disbanded in 2017. What followed was a solo career that became one of K-pop's most critically distinctive, built on disco-pop, synth-pop, and an aesthetic as likely to reference occult imagery as vintage club culture.

Born May 2, 1992 in Iksan, Sunmi debuted with Wonder Girls under JYP Entertainment in 2007. Her solo career formally launched in 2013 with "24 Hours," which reached number two on the Gaon Digital Chart. After the Wonder Girls disbanded in 2017, she left JYP and signed with Makeus Entertainment (now Abyss Company), releasing "Gashina" -- a track that became a reference point for K-pop's darker pop ambitions. "Heroine," "Siren," and "pporappippam" continued her streak of critically distinct releases.

In 2020, she reunited with J.Y. Park for "When We Disco," a collaborative single that drew on the same retro-funk sensibility that made Wonder Girls' "Nobody" iconic. Her first full-length album, Heart Maid, arrived in 2023, anchored by the single "Cynical." Sunmi remains signed to Abyss Company and active as a performer, songwriter, and record producer.