generasia:Featured article for 2021 week 27
Jeon Soyeon
Jeon Soyeon, better known mononymously as Soyeon, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer signed to CUBE Entertainment. She gained attention for competing in the television shows Produce 101 and Unpretty Rapstar 3 before her solo debut on November 5, 2017. In May 2018 she became the leader and main rapper of the girl group (G)I-DLE, in which she participates in writing and producing the majority of their songs. She is also part of SM Station X girl group project Station Young, and has portrayed League of Legends character Akali in the virtual musical groups K/DA and True Damage.
Besides the majority of songs from her own group, Jeon has also produced songs for other artists. In 2019, Jeon composed labelmate CLC's "No" which was selected through a blind test and served as the lead single, and took part in producing Apink's Kim Nam Joo solo debut song "Bird", which was released on September 7, 2020. On December 16th, it was confirmed that she would be producing a song for the Top 7 competition on Mnet's audition show CAP-TEEN.
Her first solo mini-album, Windy, is released this week on July 5th.
