As a member of the K-Pop act Monsta X, Yoo Ki-hyun -- more commonly known as Kihyun -- helped send four albums to the Korean number one spot between 2017 and 2020. Kihyun began releasing his own material in 2015, the very same year that Monsta X formed, and their careers ran simultaneously. Whereas Monsta X's music often pushed bombastic EDM and hip-hop influences to the fore, Kihyun's pop-focused solo material was usually more tempered.
Kihyun was born in Seoul in November 1993 and was raised there alongside his elder brother before attending Dong-ah Institute of Media and A...