For other people with the same name, see Kim So-yeon (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Kassie.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kassy
Born
Kim So-yeon

(1995-10-06) October 6, 1995 (age 31)
South Korea
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
Years active2015โ€“present
Labels
Korean name
Hangul
๊น€์†Œ์—ฐ
RRGim Soyeon
MRKim Soyลn

Kim So-yeon (Korean: ๊น€์†Œ์—ฐ; born October 6, 1995),[1] known by the stage name Kassy (์ผ€์ด์‹œ), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. Since her debut in 2015, she has released five extended plays and numerous singles. In 2016 she competed on the survival reality show Unpretty Rapstar 3.[2]

Discography

Extended plays

Title EP details Peak chart positions
KOR
[3]
I Want Love (์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด)
  • Released: January 18, 2018
  • Label: Nextar Entertainment, YMC Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "I Want Love" (์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด)
  2. "Thought It Would Be Fine" (๋‹ด๋‹ดํ•  ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜์–ด)
  3. "Chiche" (๋ป”ํ•ด)
  4. "Don't Forget" (์žŠ์–ด๊ฐ€์ง€๋งˆ)
  5. "Listen to This Song" (์ด ๋…ธ๋ž  ๋“ค์–ด์š”)
  6. "I Want Love" (์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด; instrumental)
 โ€”
Rewind[4]
  • Released: September 5, 2019
  • Label: Nextar Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "Story of Night Fall" (๊ฐ€์„๋ฐค ๋– ๋‚œ ๋„ˆ)
  2. "Love Sunset" (์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ์ €๋ฌด๋Š” ์ด ๋ฐค) feat. Jay Moon (์ œ์ด๋ฌธ)
  3. "You and I in This Hard Day" (์ง€์นœ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋์— ๋„ˆ์™€ ๋‚˜)
  4. "Like a Dream" (๊ฟˆ๋งŒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ผ์ด์•ผ)
  5. "Story of Night Fall" (๊ฐ€์„๋ฐค ๋– ๋‚œ ๋„ˆ; instrumental)
 96
Memories of Autumn (็ง‹ ์ถ”์–ต)
  • Released: October 26, 2020
  • Label: Nextar Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "Are You Fine" (ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ˆ)
  2. "Nap" (๋‚ฎ์ž )
  3. "If This Is Love" (์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด๋ผ๋ฉด)
  4. "You're a Good Love" (๋„Œ ์ฐธ ์ข‹์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด์—ˆ์–ด)
  5. "Are You Fine" (ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ˆ; instrumental)
 85
Old Story (์˜› ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ)
  • Released: October 28, 2021
  • Label: Nextar Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "Poem for You" (๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Œˆ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹œ ํ•œํŽธ์„ ์“ฐ๊ฒ ์–ด)
  2. "Pure Love" (์ˆœ์• ๋ณด)
  3. "Yesterday" (์˜ˆ์Šคํ„ฐ๋ฐ์ด)
  4. "Unavoidable" (์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฐ, ์ตœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ด๋ณ„์ธ๊ฑธ๊นŒ)
  5. "Poem for You" (๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Œˆ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹œ ํ•œํŽธ์„ ์“ฐ๊ฒ ์–ด; instrumental)
 โ€”
Cold Day (์ถ”์šด๋‚ )
  • Released: November 29, 2022
  • Label: Nextar Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Track listing
  1. "Cold Breeze Is Blowing" (์ฐฌ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์˜ค๋„ค์š”)
  2. "Unbroken, Unbreakable" (๋งˆ์น˜ ํ—ค์–ด์ง„ ์  ์—†๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ)
  3. "Soulmate" (์†Œ์šธ๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ)
  4. "Brake Away" (ํ—ค์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ๋ง๊ฑฐ์•ผ)
  5. "Cold Breeze Is Blowing" (์ฐฌ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์˜ค๋„ค์š”; instrumental)
 โ€”

Single albums

Title Album details
Love & Hate
  • Released: May 19, 2022
  • Label: Nextar Entertainment
  • Formats: Digital download
Track listing
  1. "Don't Wanna Leave Tonight" (๋Šฆ์€ ๋ฐค ํ—ค์–ด์ง€๊ธด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„์‰ฌ์›Œ)
  2. "Hate You" (์ ์  ์ง€์ณ๊ฐ€)
  3. "Don't Wanna Leave Tonight" (๋Šฆ์€ ๋ฐค ํ—ค์–ด์ง€๊ธด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„์‰ฌ์›Œ) (Instrumental)
  4. "Hate You" (์ ์  ์ง€์ณ๊ฐ€) (Instrumental)

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Sales Certifications Album
KOR
[5]
As lead artist
"In My Bed" (์นจ๋Œ€ ์œ„์—์„œ) 2015 โ€” N/a N/a N/a
"Ooh Ooh Ooh"
feat. Eluphant 		โ€”
"Hug Me" (์“ฐ๋‹ด์“ฐ๋‹ด) 2016 โ€”
"Dream" 2017 โ€”
"Let It Rain" (๋น„์•ผ ์™€๋ผ) โ€” N/a
"Listen to This Song" (์ด ๋…ธ๋ž  ๋“ค์–ด์š”) โ€” I Want Love
"Your Memory" (์‚ฌ์ง„์ฒฉ) 2018 โ€” N/a N/a
"The Day Was Beautiful" (๊ทธ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•˜์–ด) 3
"True Song" (์ง„์‹ฌ์ด ๋‹ด๊ธด ๋…ธ๋ž˜) 2019 14 N/a
"When Love Comes By" (์ด ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๋ฉด) 2020 136
"Tock Tock" (๋˜‘๋˜‘) 156
"I Will Light Your Way"
(๋„ˆ์˜ ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์— ๋น›์„ ๋น„์ถฐ์ค„๊ฒŒ) 		2021 32
"Always Love You" (์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด) 2022 4
"Forever Love" (์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด์•ผ) 46
"Crush on You" (์‚ฌ์‹ค๋ง์•ผ๋‚ด๊ฐ€๋ง์•ผ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ๋ง์ด์•ผ) 2023 32
"Only You" (๋„ˆ ๋ฐ–์—” ์—†๋”๋ผ) 85
"Love Fool" (์†๋Š” ์…ˆ ์น˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜์ž) 2024 126 Full Bloom
Collaborations
"Blossom, Night" (๋ฒš๊ฝƒ, ๋ฐค)
(PK Heman & Dorothy[9]) 		2015 โ€” N/a N/a N/a
"The Love of Fingertips" (์†๋์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘)
(B1A4, Seo Eunkwang, Lee Changsub,
Hur Young Ji, A-Jax, April, Oh My Girl & Kassy) 		2016 โ€”
"My Hero" (๋‚˜์˜ ์˜์›…)
(Leeteuk, Suho & Kassy) 		177 SM Station Season 1
"Close to You"
(2BiC with Kassy) 		โ€” Fall in 2BiC
"Missing You" (๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ)
(2BiC with Kassy) 		91 Guess I Loved You
"See You in Heaven" (๋ณ„๋˜ฅ๋ณ„)
(Kassy & Basick) 		2017 โ€” N/a N/a
"A Song from the Past" (์ด ๋…ธ๋žœ ๊ฝค ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ)
(Solar & Kassy) 		2020 58

Soundtrack appearances

Title Year Peak chart positions Sales Album
KOR
[5]
"Good Morning" (๊ตฟ๋ชจ๋‹) 2017 62 Fight for My Way OST
"The Day I Dream" (๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋˜ ๋‚ ) โ€” N/a The Bride of Habaek OST
"At Beginning of Love" (์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋  ๋•Œ) 2018 โ€” Wok of Love OST
"Same Memories" (๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์–ต) โ€” Let's Eat 3 OST
"Take My Hand" (์†์„ ์žก์•„์ค˜) โ€” Webtoon "Yeonnom" OST
"Greeting" (๋งˆ์ค‘) 2019 โ€” Chocolate OST
"Love Me Like You Used To" (๋‚  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ ์ฒ˜์Œ์˜ ๋„ˆ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€) 2020 186 Start-Up OST
"Waiting for Spring" (์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ๋‚œ ๋ด„์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค) 2021 52 Bimil:ier Vol. 2 "Waiting for Spring"[12]
"Nothing Left To Say" (์–ด๋–ค ๋ง๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๋‚˜์ธ๋ฐ) 111 My Roommate Is a Gumiho OST[13]
"One Sunny Day" (์–ด๋Š ํ–‡์‚ด ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ) 107 Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha OST
"You Are Falling All Night" (๋ฐค์ƒˆ ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ ค) 41 The Listen OST
"Still Parting From Us" (๋Š๋ฆฐ ์ด๋ณ„)
as part of "The Listen", along with Solji, Kim Nayoung, Seunghee, HYNN 		198
"Aching" (์•„๋ฆฌ์šด) 2022 โ€” Alchemy of Souls OST
"Broke Up Today (2024)" (์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ—ค์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” (2024)) 2024 169 Reunion Counseling OST
"Again" 2026 To My Beloved Thief OST

Other charted songs

Title Year Peak chart positions Sales Certifications Album
KOR
[5]
"Story of Night Fall" (๊ฐ€์„๋ฐค ๋– ๋‚œ ๋„ˆ) 2019 3 N/a N/a Rewind
"Are You Fine?" (ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ˆ) 2020 79 Memories of Autumn
"Poem for You" (๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Œˆ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹œ ํ•œํŽธ์„ ์“ฐ๊ฒ ์–ด) 2021 33 Old Story
"Don't Wanna Leave Tonight" (๋Šฆ์€ ๋ฐค ํ—ค์–ด์ง€๊ธด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„์‰ฌ์›Œ) 2022 22 Love & Hate
"Cold Breeze Is Blowing" (์ฐฌ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถˆ์–ด์˜ค๋„ค์š”) 110 Cold Day

Filmography

Television

Year Title Network Notes Ref.
2016 Unpretty Rapstar 3 Mnet Contestant [2]
2019 King of Mask Singer MBC Contestant as "Destiny" (eps. 201โ€“202) [14][15]
2021 The Listen: Wind Blows SBS Cast Member [16]

Web

Year Title Notes Ref.
2021 Bimil:ier (Secret Atelier) Featured artist, Episodes 5-8 [12]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Nominee / Work Result Ref
2019 Brand of the Year Awards Female Vocalist Kassy Won [17]
3rd KY Star Awards 10 Million Song Logs Won [citation needed]
9th Gaon Chart Music Awards Discovery of the Year โ€“ Ballad Won [18]
Melon Music Awards Top 10 Artists Nominated [19]
Song of the Year (Daesang) The Day Was Beautiful Nominated
Best Ballad Nominated
2020 34th Golden Disc Awards Digital Bonsang Nominated [20]
29th Seoul Music Awards Bonsang (Main Prize) Nominated [21]
Popularity Award Nominated
K-Wave Award Nominated
Best R&B Award Rewind Won
2022 Melon Music Awards Artist of the Year Kassy Longlisted [22]
Top 10 Artist Award Nominated
Best Female Solo Artist Nominated

References

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