Ahn Ye-eun

Ahn Ye-eun (, born May 21, 1992), is a South Korean genre-bending singer-songwriter, who is best known as the runner-up of K-pop Star 5. She is well known for singing the soundtrack for the TV series The Rebel.

Early life and education
Ahn was born with congenital heart defect, and she said she had spent almost her entire childhood in hospitals. She started learning piano at the age of four. 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. Rumor has it that Ahn was a violent bully during her school days, still she denied the accusation.

Artistry
Ahn's musical style mixed traditional folk and pop. Her mostly musical style is pansori, a traditional Korean narrative singing. 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. The switch between similar-sounding instruments of different cultures appears in her songs.

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