In this Korean name, the family name is Kang.
Rothy
Rothy in December 2020
Born
Kang Joo-hee

(1999-05-06) May 6, 1999 (age 27)
Incheon, South Korea
OccupationSinger
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Guitar
Years active2017โ€“present
LabelDorothy Company
Korean name
Hangul
๊ฐ•์ฃผํฌ
RRGang Juhui
MRKang Chuhลญi

Kang Joo-hee (Korean: ๊ฐ•์ฃผํฌ, born May 6, 1999),[1] better known by the stage name Rothy (๋กœ์‹œ), is a South Korean singer. She made her debut on November 9, 2017, with the digital single "Stars".[2] She was known as "Shin Seung-hun's Muse" by reporters.[3][4]

Early life

Rothy attended Incheon Annam Middle School. She graduated from the Department of Applied Music at Hanlim Multi Art School.[citation needed]

Career

2013โ€“2016: Pre-debut

After auditioning in middle school, Rothy signed with Dorothy Company, receiving direct training from Shin Seung-hun for four years before making her debut. On her atypical idol training, Rothy said, "I went to a song camp, learned dance, and learned guitar. I focused on vocal training, but there were two teachers. I also received personalized one-on-one guidance from CEO Shin Seung-hun. That would be the differentiating point."[5]

2017: "Stars"

Rothy released her first single "Stars" on November 9, 2017.[6] "Stars" contains the story of a girl who is looking for her dream. Producer Shin Seung-hun said, "I'm trying to start Rothy with empathy. Knowing that she wants to sing songs that comfort her friends despite her age, she spent the last days of her teenage years looking for comfort and confidence in her self-identity and confusion." As a producer, he revealed his sincere wish, saying, "It's important to gain popularity, but I hope that people who sympathize with my song will find the reward as a musician."[7]

After the release of the Face Live video for "Stars" through the M2 YouTube Channel, the single had a "chart reversal", ranking 3rd in real-time search terms on Melon, entered the Genie Music Top 100 and ranked 59th, and also rose 167 places from 368th to 194th on Melon, the highest ranking since its release.[8]

Rothy was invited as a guest for Shin Seung-hun's year-end concert "2017 THE Shin Seung-hun SHOW-Winter Special" at the Olympic Hall in Olympic Park, Seoul for three days from December 15 to 17.[9]

2018: Shape of Rothy

On January 2, 2018, Rothy released "Baby Baby" with U-Kwon of Block B for the OST of Jugglers.[10]

On June 1, Rothy released her second single "Sullae", with Yoo Seung-ho appearing in the music video for the single. Rothy, who turned 20, showed a more mature story of finding herself through the single.[11][12]

On June 27, she released "A Little Bit More" with Jinho of Pentagon for the OST of What's Wrong with Secretary Kim.[citation needed] On July 8, Rothy released the song "Butterfly Effect" for the drama RE:Playlist. The track is a remake of Shin Seung-hun's "Butterfly Effect".[citation needed]

On August 30, Rothy released her first mini-album Shape of Rothy with the title track "Burning", a trendy up-tempo tropical house genre song, with a sophisticated melody that feels like a pop song, in addition to the sensuous lyrics that compare love to candlelight and fireflies.[13] On September 7, she appeared on Yoo Hee-yeol's Sketchbook.[13] On September 20, she appeared on M Countdown with "Stars", which was said to have reflected the listeners' requests.[14]

On October 1, she released the track "Cloud" for the OST of The Beauty Inside. "Cloud" is a love song containing a shy heart that wants to hide the feelings that are blooming everywhere and is used in the first episode of the show.[15]

2019: "Blossom Flower", Color of Rothy

On January 30, 2019, Rothy released her third single "Blossom Flower", a song that compares an unknown flower and a bed abandoned on the roadside to the pain of parting. The track uses both acoustic guitar and an orchestra.[16] The track peaked at 2nd on Genie and Olleh Music, 6th on Monkey3, 8th on Soribada, 14th on Naver Music, 20th on Bugs, 26th on Melon, and 30th on Mnet.[17]

On February 10, she released "Rainbow" for the OST of Romance Is a Bonus Book. On February 11, Shin Seung-hun x Rothy's Tello brand sound "Fortune Teller" was released. On February 18, Rothy's official fandom name "Bloomimg" was announced. "Blooming", which means flowers are in full bloom, resembles Rothy and symbolizes people as beautiful as flowers, also containing the meaning of wishing Rothy and Blooming to always walk together along the path of flowers in full bloom.[18]

On May 27, Rothy's second mini-album Color of Rothy was released with the title track "Bee". With Shape of Rothy representing a sketch, Color of Rothy represented color.[19] This was Rothy's second song with a choreography after "Burning". Rothy said, "The title track, 'Bee', is a hip-hop R&B song that shows a very cute, chic, and bold side with lyrics that compare bees to flowers". On the B-side track "Beautiful Days", she said that "it's a song that I have a lot of affection for because it contains the story of my growth."[20]

Rothy competed on King of Mask Singer as "Sweet Voice", becoming a runner-up after losing to Kyuhyun of Super Junior in the final round.[citation needed]

2020โ€“present: Singles

On July 4, 2020, Rothy released "Sleepless Night" for the OST of Backstreet Rookie. On August 13, she released her fourth digital single "Ocean View", featuring Chanyeol of Exo.

On June 9, 2021, she released "We Will Be Not All Together" for the OST of At a Distance, Spring Is Green with Han Seung-yoon.[21] On October 14, Rothy released her fifth digital single "Cold Love". On November 21, she released "Our Road" for the OST of Jirisan.

On February 24, 2022, she released her sixth digital single "Believe". On March 12, she released "Something Precious" for the OST of Forecasting Love and Weather.[citation needed] On July 5, Rothy released her seventh digital single "Changed Number".[citation needed]

On May 31, 2023, she released her eighth digital single "Diamond".[22] In August, Rothy released "Alive" for the soundtrack of Not Others.[23] She is scheduled to release her single "Something Casual" on October 12.[24]

Artistry

Rothy had stated that she admires Jessie J, and that when she first saw Jessie J perform live, she fell in love at first sight with her charisma, singing, performance, stage manners, confidence, and enjoyment. She said that during middle school, while looking for performance videos, she had a heart that wants "to love music and enjoy music as an activity rather than a job."[25]

Rothy has also referred to IU as a role model, saying that she wants to become a top artist like her, and as a solo female singer, someone can look at her and walk with her.[26]

In Rothy's first profile, she said that her charm is her voice, because she has a voice that is the opposite of her appearance, which surprises people.[27]

Discography

Extended plays

List of extended plays, showing selected details, and selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
KOR
[28]
Shape of Rothy
Track listing
  1. Burning (๋ฒ„๋‹)
  2. Lost Time (์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ)
  3. Stars
  4. Sullae (์ˆ ๋ž˜)
  5. Lost Time (์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ฐพ์•„์„œ) (Inst.)
  6. Burning (๋ฒ„๋‹) (Inst.)
 โ€”
Color of Rothy
  • Released: May 27, 2019
  • Label: Dorothy Company, Genie Music, Stone Music Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. Bee
  2. Beautiful Days (์–ด์ œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž๋ž์–ด)
  3. Temperature (์˜จ๋„)
  4. Blossom Flower (๋‹ค ํ•€ ๊ฝƒ)
  5. Bee (Inst.)
 51
"โ€”" denotes a recording that did not chart

Singles

List of singles, showing year released, selected chart positions, and name of the album
Title Year Peak chart
positions 		Album
KOR
[29]
"Stars" 2017 โ€” Shape of Rothy
"Sullae" (์ˆ ๋ž˜) 2018
"Burning" (๋ฒ„๋‹)
"Blossom Flower" (๋‹ค ํ•€ ๊ฝƒ) 2019 89 Colors of Rothy
"Bee" 108
"Ocean View"
featuring Chanyeol (Exo) 		2020 97 Non-album singles
"Cold Love" 2021 162
"Believe" (๊ฒจ์šธ..๊ทธ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ด„) 2022 136
"Star" (์ด ๋ณ„) โ€”
"Changed Number"
"Diamond" 2023 โ€”
"Rain Drive" โ€”
"Something Casual" โ€”
"No Where, Now Here" (๋„ˆ์˜ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ด ๋Œ์•„์˜ฌ๊ฑฐ์•ผ) โ€”
"Happy End" 2024 โ€”
"โ€”" denotes a recording that did not chart

Soundtrack appearances

List of soundtrack singles, showing year released, selected chart positions, and name of the album
Title Year Peak chart
positions 		Album
KOR
[30]
"Baby Baby" (์• ๊ธฐ์• ๊ธฐํ•ด)
with U-Kwon (Block B) 		2018 โ€” Jugglers OST
"A Little Bit More" (์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋”)
with Jinho (Pentagon) 		โ€” What's Wrong with Secretary Kim OST
"Butterfly Effect" (๋‚˜๋น„ํšจ๊ณผ) โ€” RE:Playlist OST
"Cloud" (๊ตฌ๋ฆ„) 90 The Beauty Inside OST
"Rainbow" (๋ ˆ์ธ๋ณด์šฐ) 2019 141 Romance Is a Bonus Book OST
"Hello" 2020 โ€” Ending Again OST
"Flower" (๊ฝƒ์€ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ)
(Prod. Rocoberry) 		โ€” Traveler - Argentina OST
"Sleepless Night" (์ž ์ด ์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฐค์—) โ€” Backstreet Rookie OST
"We Will Be Not All Together" (ํ’ˆ)
with Han Seung-yun 		2021 โ€” At a Distance, Spring Is Green OST
"Our Road" โ€” Jirisan OST
"Something Precious" (์‚ฌ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‚˜ ๋ด) 2022 โ€” Forecasting Love and Weather OST
"Step By Step" โ€” Link: Eat, Love, Kill OST
"With You" (๋„ค ๊ณ์—) 2023 โ€” Mental Coach Jegal OST
"Alone" (ํ™€๋กœ) โ€” Doctor Cha OST
"Alive" โ€” Not Others OST
"โ€”" denotes a recording that did not chart

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2021 The Box Cameo [citation needed]

Television shows

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2019 King of Mask Singer Contestant Runner-up; as "Sweet Voice" (Episodes 211โ€“212) [citation needed]

References

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  9. ^ '์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆ์˜ ๋ฎค์ฆˆ' ๋กœ์‹œ, ์—ฐ๋ง '์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆ์‡ผ' ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œ ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ์ถœ์—ฐ...์–ด๋–ค ์ผ€๋ฏธ ๋ณด์ผ๊นŒ? ['Shin Seung-hun's muse' Rothy, appeared as a special guest on the year-end 'Shin Seung-hun Show'... What chemistry will it look like?]. Etoday (in Korean). December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  10. ^ ๋ธ”๋ฝ๋น„ ์œ ๊ถŒX๋กœ์‹œ, '์ €๊ธ€๋Ÿฌ์Šค' OST ์ฐธ์—ฌ...'์• ๊ธฐ์• ๊ธฐํ•ด' [Block B U-Kwon X Rothy, 'Jugglers' OST Participation...'My Baby']. Seoul Economic Daily (in Korean). December 26, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  11. ^ Lee, Jeong-choi. '์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆ์˜ ๋ฎค์ฆˆ' ๋กœ์‹œ, 6์›” 1์ผ ์‹ ๊ณก '์ˆ ๋ž˜' ๋ฐœํ‘œ ํ™•์ •..'์†Œ๋…€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅๅฒ' ['Shin Seung-hun's muse' Rossi confirmed the release of the new song 'Sullae' on June 1..'Girl's Growth History']. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  12. ^ Kim, Eunae. ์œ ์Šนํ˜ธ, ๋กœ์‹œ '์ˆ ๋ž˜' ๋ฎค๋น„ ์ถœ์—ฐ..์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆ ์ด์–ด ๋“ ๋“ ํ•œ ์ง€์›์‚ฌ๊ฒฉ [Yoo Seung-ho appears in Rothy's 'Tagger' music video.. Following Shin Seung-hun, strong support shooting]. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  13. ^ a b Jeon, Aram. ๋กœ์‹œ, ๋ฐ๋ท” 2์ฃผ๋งŒ์— ๋ผ๋””์˜ค DJ ๋„์ „...12์ผ '๋กœ์‹œ์˜ ๋ฆฝ(Lip)๋ฐค' ์ง„ํ–‰ [Rothy, a radio DJ challenge in 2 weeks of debut... On the 12th, 'Rothy's Burning']. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  14. ^ Jung, Yoo-na. '์— ์นด์šดํŠธ๋‹ค์šด' ๋กœ์‹œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜(20์ผ) ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฐ๋ท”๊ณก 'Stars' ์ตœ์ดˆ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ['M Countdown' Rothy, pre-debut song 'Stars' released for the first time today (20th)]. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  15. ^ Yoo, Byung-cheol. ๋กœ์‹œ, '๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ' OST '๊ตฌ๋ฆ„' ์Œ์› 1์ผ ๊ณต๊ฐœ [Rothy, 'Beauty Inside' OST 'Cloud' sound source released on the 1st]. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  16. ^ Jim, Min-kyung. ๋กœ์‹œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜(30์ผ) ์‹ ๊ณก '๋‹ค ํ•€ ๊ฝƒ' ๊ณต๊ฐœ..์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆX๊น€์ด๋‚˜ ์ง€์›์‚ฌ๊ฒฉ [Rothy, today (30th) release a new song 'Blossom Flower'... with Shin Seung-hun X Kim Ea-na supporting]. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  17. ^ Jeon, Aram. ๋กœ์‹œ, ์‹ ๊ณก '๋‹ค ํ•€ ๊ฝƒ' ์ฐจํŠธ ์ƒ์œ„๊ถŒ ์ ๋ น...์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๅฅณ๋ณด์ปฌ ์ž…์ฆ [Rothy occupies the top of the chart for the new song 'Blossom Flower'... Proof of next-generation female vocalist]. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
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  19. ^ Park, Young-woong. ๋กœ์‹œ, ์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆยท๊น€์ด๋‚˜ ์ง€์› ์† ์ปด๋ฐฑ...ํƒ€์ดํ‹€๊ณก ์ž‘๊ณก ์ฐธ์—ฌ [Rothy, comeback with Shin Seung-hun and Kim Eana supporting...Participated in composing the title song]. entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  20. ^ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„, ๋กœ์‹œ 2๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์•จ๋ฒ” [Color Of Rothy] ๋ฐœ๋งค ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ! [An interview for the release of Rothy's 2nd mini-album [Color of Rothy], showing off his colorful charm!]. m.post.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  21. ^ ๋กœ์‹œxํ•œ์Šน์œค, ์˜ค๋Š˜(29์ผ) '๋ฉ€ํ‘ธ๋ด„' OST 'ํ’ˆ' ๋ฐœ๋งค [Rothy x Han Seung-yoon, today (29th) 'At a Distance, Spring Is Green' OST 'We will be not all together' released]. Single List (in Korean). June 29, 2021. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
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  28. ^ Peak chart positions for extended plays on the Gaon Album Chart:
  29. ^ Peak chart positions for singles on the Gaon Digital Chart:
    • "Blossom Flower". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
    • "Bee". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
    • "Ocean View". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 29, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
    • "Cold Love". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
    • "Believe". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 1, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  30. ^ Peak chart positions for soundtrack singles on the Gaon Digital Chart:
    • "Cloud". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on January 4, 2019. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
    • "Rainbow". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.