Who are Mamamoo members? Ages, names

Mamamoo is a popular South Korean girl pop band formed in 2014. The band has never changed members, so the list of singers remains the same as in 2014: Hwasa, Moonbyul, Wheein and Solar.

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How did Mamamoo come about?

A popular South Korean entertainment company RBW (Rainbow Bridge World), founded by Kim Do-hoon and Kim Jin-woo in 2010, founded the girl group, which debuted in February 2014 with their single “Don’t Be Happy”, a collaboration with Bumkey, a well-known South Korean rapper and R&B singer.

Although the K-pop music industry’s market is highly competitive, Billboard magazine ranked Mamamoo in its top 5 of new Korean bands worthy of attention: “With a retro-based sound that highlights their excellent singing and rapping skills, it feels like it’s only a matter of time before the cool quartet has a signature song that makes them the best girl groups,” the source touted their singles “Piano Man”, “Baton Touch” and “Peppermint Chocolate”.

Then their single “Mr. Ambiguous”, released in June 2014, made them shine, supported by South Korean pop stars like Baek Ji-young, K.Will, Jung Joon-young and many others, who appeared in their music video for that single .

further success

In the same year of 2014, Mamamoo recorded the soundtrack for the drama titled “Marriage, Not Dating”. Their single “Love Lane” hit the local charts and reached the first lines. In 2015, the band released another EP titled “Pink Funky”, their third EP after the successful “Hello” and “Piano Man”. From January 2015, Mamamoo became a regular participant of the popular music program “Immortal Songs 2”; on the show, they played old hits like “Wait a Minute,” originally performed by Joo Hyun-mi, “Delilah,” previously sung by Jo Young-nam, and “Backwood’s Mountain,” previously performed by Bae Ho.

From 2016 to 2017, Mamamoo released two more EPs: “Memory” and “Purple”.

Controversy over Mamamoo’s appearances in Seoul and Busan. Did they perform in blackface?

In late 2017, Mamamoo announced their upcoming concerts in Seoul and Busan, but their show titled “Mamamoo Concert Moosical: Curtain Call” was heavily criticized for playing in blackface. The controversy arose after the members of Mamamoo wore a dark shade of foundation while covering Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” in an attempt to look more like the original artist. However, their actions were received negatively and the producers had to cut that part of the show from their further performances. The singers apologized to their audience: “We were extremely ignorant of blackface and did not understand the implications of our actions.

We will take the time to learn more about our international fans to make sure this never happens again,” she said stated: in their official message to their fans.

“Four Seasons” project and other recent activities

In January 2018, Mamamoo announced their upcoming project: the “Four Seasons” music album series, which was created to discover the hidden potential of each member of the band. In March 2018, the project’s first EP titled “Yellow Flower” was released, and the lead single, “Starry Night”, charted the Top 10 Mid-Year Gaon Digital Chart, with the sixth line. The band supported their album with a live show at the SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium in Seoul; it’s worth noting that tickets to the show reportedly sold out within two minutes of the sale starting.

In July 2018, another EP from the “Four Seasons” project, “Red Moon” was released; the main single was titled “Egotistic”. Since both the EP and the single were very successful, the Japanese company Victor Entertainment signed a contract with Mamamoo, so that they released their first Japanese single “Décalomanie” in October 2018. In November 2018 their third EP “Blues” with the main single “Wind Flower” was released, followed by the last EP of the series “White Wind” in March 2019.

In November 2019, Mamamoo released their second full-length album entitled “Reality in Black”. The lead single from the LP, “Hip”, reached the fourth line on the digital chart and also reached the top of the Gaon album chart.

In 2020, they released the Japanese version of the album, including the Japanese “Hip” edition, and their third song in Japanese, “Shampoo”.

Winning the TV show “Queendom”

From August to October 2019, Mamamoo participated in the music show “Queendom” and competed for the top spot with such successful bands as Park Bom, AOA, (G)I-DLE, Lovelyz and Oh My Girl – the latter were the toughest competitor for Mamamoo . After several shows and a special Final Live Comeback Stages performance, Mamamoo won the show and together got more points than all the other music bands that entered the competition.

Mamamoo members

moonbyul

Moonbyul, whose real name is Moon Byul-yi, was born on December 12, 1992 in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

In 2011, she entered the Paekche Institute of the Arts, where she studied media music and singing. In May 2018, she released her solo single “Selfish”, featuring Seulgi from the music band “Red Velvet”. On February 4, 2020, Moonbyul released her first solo EP “Dark Side of the Moon”, which featured successful songs such as “Weird Day”, “Eclipse” and “Absence”.

Moonbyul has two younger sisters: Seulgi born in 1996 and Yesol in 2004. Initially Moonbyul wanted to become a singer in Mamamoo, but after the final auditions it was decided that she would become the lead rapper. She worked as a choreographer for the music video “Piano Man”. Moonbyul sweats a lot, which is why she was even nicknamed “Black Hole.” Her dream is to work with Verbal Jint one day.

She writes her rap lyrics on her own; when Mamamoo performed on “Immortal Songs 2”, she added her lyrics to the song the band sang, even though there was no rap in the original versions of the songs.

• Moonbyul made her appearance as Swan in the TV show “King of Masked Singer”
• . Hair Instagram profile is followed by more than two million fans.
• She has four tattoos.
• She likes to wear hats and blazers.
• Her official height is 1.65 m, but her fans insist that she is 1,634 m tall because they know that South Korean music companies tend to adjust the profiles of singers to make them look more attractive. Her weight is 99 lbs (45 kg).

wheein

Jung Whee-in was born on April 17, 1995 in Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea. After attending the same high school where her classmate Hwasa studied, Wheein attended Wonkwang Information Arts High School, graduating in 2013.

• She is a fan of mukbang shows (the videos of people eating in front of the camera and interacting with the audience at the same time).
• Wheein is very good at drawing.
• She has a cat named Ggomo/Kkomo, who appears in many of her videos and photos.
• Wheein appeared as a featured artist in such singles as Phantom’s “Under Age’s Song”, Standing Egg’s “Love or Like”, and DinDin’s “Tears Drops” among many others.
• She was also nominated by Gaon Chart Music Awards in the category “Artist of the Year – Digital Music”.
• Her official height is 1.62 m, but her fans claim that her height is about 1.58 m; her weight is 95 lbs (43 kg). Wheein is official Instagram account has more than 650,000 followers.

#WHEEIN: give me more!! pic.twitter.com/ondlww1sLf

— авуль 🐋 (@boy_tancevach) July 25, 2020

hwasa

Ahn Hye-jin, also known as Hwasa, was born on July 23, 1995 in Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea, the youngest of three sisters. As with Wheein, Hwasa graduated from Wonkwang Information Arts High School. She started singing professionally when she was only 16 years old. In February 2019, Hwasa released her solo album “TWIT”.

• She enjoys cooking and listening to old jazz songs, citing Rihanna as her idol, role model and inspiration.
• She also admitted that she liked Leslie Cheung, a popular Korean singer and actor, and enjoys watching movies starring George Clooney.
• She has a strong allergy to pets, so she has a toy lion and treats it like her real pet.
• Hair Instagram account is followed by more than two million fans.
• She is officially 1.62 m tall, but her fans believe she is 1.60 m tall; her weight is 97 lbs (44 kg).

solar

Kim Yong-sun, nicknamed Solar in Mamamoo, was born on February 21, 1991 in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, South Korea; she has an older sister named Yong-hee. Solar graduated from Hanyang Women’s University in 2013. Her solo single “Spit It Out” was released in April 2020. She has also collaborated with Eddy Kim, Hwang Chi-yeul, Kassy and Eunhyuk. As the band’s oldest member, Solar considering herself to be Mamamoo Mom.

• Before becoming a singer, Solar wanted to be a flight attendant.
• Her favorite rapper is Lil’ Wayne.
• She appeared on the TV show “We Got Married” paired with Eric Nam.
• Her favorite Korean dish is tteokbokki, fried rice cakes.
• She is officially 1.63 m tall, but her fans consider her height to be about 1.61 m; her estimated weight is 95 lbs (43 kg).