Hui

Singer

Popular As Hui (singer)

Birthday August 28, 1993

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Gwacheon, South Korea

Age 30 years old

Nationality South Korea

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1960

He failed to make the cut into Chinese Idol as he was placed 60th and immediately dropped out from the show.

1993

Lee Hoe-taek (born August 28, 1993), better known as Hui, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.

Hui was born on August 28, 1993, in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do Province, South Korea.

1994

They released a remake of Lee Won-jin and Ryu Keum-deok's 1994 classic "For All the New Lovers".

The group wasn't supposed to consist of them, but after the three recorded the guide, Cube's Artist Development team decided to release it.

2010

In 2010, he won first place on Best Male Vocal at JYP 7th Audition Final Round.

2012

In 2012, Hui graduated from Modern K Academy.

On Comedian Singer Producer, Hui confessed that he was rejected from Hanyang University.

2013

He is also well known for his participation in the reality competition series Boys Planet, where he placed 13th overall.

Hui participates in writing and producing a majority of Pentagon's songs.

Some of his best-known works are Wanna One's "Energetic", Nation's Son's "Never", Produce X 101's "Boyness", JO1's "Oh-Eh-Oh", and Pentagon's "Shine", "Naughty Boy", and "Daisy".

At Pentagon's debut showcase, Hui explained the meaning behind his name: believing Lee Hoe-taek, his real name, is difficult to pronounce (particularly for foreigners), he settled on Hui as a mononym.

During a stay in China, he discovered local people pronounce the first syllable of his name, Hoe/Hwe, as “Hui/Hwee”, which inspired his decision.

He lived in Beijing, China for eight months before joining Cube in 2013.

Hui used to be a JYP trainee before joining Cube Entertainment.

In 2013, Hui was preparing to debut in China.

In an open audition in 2013, after leaving JYP, he was the only participant selected by all three entertainment agencies (Cube, Sonic Music and Nega Network).

In December 2013, Hui danced at the KBS Festival and danced to the special stage of Son Dong-woon and Kwon So-hyun.

2014

In 2014, Hui appeared in G.NA’s "Secret" music video and promotional activities.

He also appeared in Rain's "Rain Effect" as a trainee, and received advice from Rain about debut.

Hui spent about six years as a trainee before debuting with Pentagon.

2015

In February 2015, Hui was part of a vocal project group, Seorin-dong Children (서린동 아이들) with Jinho and another female singer.

2016

He debuted as the leader, main vocalist and lead dancer of boy group Pentagon in October 2016, under Cube Entertainment.

He was a member of the co-ed trio Triple H, alongside former bandmate Dawn and former labelmate Hyuna, and is the leader of trot boy group Super Five of MBC's Favorite Entertainment.

On October 10, 2016, Hui made his official debut as a member of Pentagon through 2016 Mnet's reality show Pentagon Maker and becoming the leader of the group.

He made a cameo on the web drama Spark.

2017

On April 4, 2017, Cube Entertainment announced that he would participate in a project group called Triple H alongside Hyuna and E'dawn and that they would star in a reality show called Triple H Fun Agency.

The group debuted on May 1 with the EP 199X and title track "365 Fresh".

In 2017, Hui co-composed the Produce 101 Season 2 hit song, "Never" and Wanna One's debut single, "Energetic" alongside Flow Blow which won by public votes on which song they'd like to see for the group's debut single.

Both songs achieved an all-kill on Instiz, charting at No. 1 on real-time charts of Melon, Mnet, Bugs, Genie, Soribada, and Naver.

On September 19, it was revealed that Hui participated in a new show called Hyena on the Keyboard.

It is a pilot music variety show where well-known singer-songwriters would be competing on music charts.

On October 20, Hui was cast for One Night Food Trip alongside his label mate Yoo Seon-ho.

The filming started in Vietnam on October 22.

2018

In just 2018, Hui co-composed Kriesha Chu's "Paradise", "This Stop", Shinwha's "Don't Leave Me, Pentagon's "Shine" and three songs from Thumbs Up! respectively. On June 9, two Cube Entertainment idol groups, Pentagon and (G)I-dle appeared on Idol Room. During the episode, Hui performed his self-produced track, "Theme song 1" alongside Jeon So-yeon's "Theme song 2", and they gifted the songs to the show. At the end of 2018, he collaborated with Jinho and Oh My Girl's Seunghee at the 2018 Korea Popular Music Awards to perform a cover of "I Have a Dream" on December 20.

2019

In May 2019, Hui produced "Dramatic" for the rookie girl group Bvndit.

In October, he co-wrote and co-composed the song "119" from VAV's fifth EP Poison.

2020

In 2020, Hui co-composed three songs from Pentagon's Universe: The Black Hall.

He revealed that he wrote the lead single "Dr. Bebe" in a day while "Shower of Rain" he wrote it without any thoughts.

On February 29, he performed Jung Soo-ra's "Exultation" on KBS' program Immortal Songs 2 as a duo with Jinho.