V

V (뷔, Kim Tae-hyung; born December 30, 1995, Daegu, South Korea) arrived in BTS as a secret: his inclusion in the group was withheld from public knowledge until just before their 2013 debut stage, a detail that set the tone for a career built on deliberate intrigue. His baritone voice is an outlier in K-pop's landscape of bright tenors, giving BTS tracks like "Singularity" and "Inner Child" a depth no other member could replicate. Solo BTS tracks "Stigma" (2016) and "Singularity" (2018) demonstrated compositional instincts more jazz-adjacent than the group's main output, while "Scenery" (2019), a self-composed independent release, made his aesthetic preferences explicit. He made his acting debut in the 2016 historical drama Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth. Official solo debut EP Layover (September 8, 2023) leaned into soft R&B and jazz: "Slow Dancing" peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Love Me Again" and "Rainy Days" preceded it. Valentine's Day 2024 brought "FRI(END)S." He and RM enlisted in December 2023 and were discharged together on June 10, 2025. V's first post-discharge public appearance was the Celine Printemps 2026 fashion show in Paris on July 4, 2025, attending as the brand's global ambassador. A Cartier global ambassador since 2022 and Celine ambassador since 2021, he carries one of K-pop's most deliberately curated luxury portfolios, matched by an Instagram presence at @thv that routinely draws eight-figure engagement on individual posts.