Ahn Ye-eun

Ahn was born with congenital heart defect, and she said she had spent almost her entire childhood in hospitals.^[2] She started learning piano at the age of four.^[3] Influenced by Kim Yoon-ah, the lead singer in Jaurim, and female-fronted bands such as Loveholics and Cherry Filter, Ahn had wished to become a singer since middle school. She was attending the Applied Music department of Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts.^[4] In 2019, a social media post accused Ahn of past school violence, but she and her agency since refuted the legitimacy of this accusation.^{[5][unreliable source?]}

"Changgwi"

Sample from "Changgwi", based on the ghostlore of the same name. The Harvard Crimson described the story and style of the single as "ambiguous", means the song bobs and weaves between genres, cultures and time periods.^[6]

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Ahn's musical style mixed traditional folk and pop.^[6] Her mostly musical style is pansori, a traditional Korean narrative singing.^[7] Ahn's discography saw more modern and new pansori that kept the base elements of pansori while adding a different touch such as the inclusion of more instruments.^[8] The switch between similar-sounding instruments of different cultures appears in her songs.^[6]

Ahn's music has various motifs, most from Korean folktales and historical events, while others from the Proust phenomenon, Korean shamanism, etc.^[9][2] Her debut album Ahn Ye-eun was about love.^[10] She released four horror songs since 2020, which started out "curiosity about whether music alone can make people feel scared".^[2]