Bios & promo — benchmark artistes

Park Yoon-ha auditioned successfully for the fourth season of K-pop Star, which aired from November 23, 2014 to April 19, 2015 on SBS. She was eliminated on March 22, 2015 during the Top 4 Finals. Following the competition, she signed an exclusive contract with Jellyfish Entertainment in July 2015. The agency statement noted: "Despite Park Yoon Ha's young age, she has a clear and delicate voice and potential musical talents."

I moved to Los Angeles about a year ago to pursue music as a singer-songwriter. It's been a long time coming, but I'm so happy to be here. I was born and raised in a small town in South Korea until I moved to another small town in Texas when I was 13. People who know me are always surprised to hear this since they see me as a city girl. I used to dream about moving out of Texas and thriving in cities like New York or LA. Even though my love for music has always been there, I never saw it as a realistic option and ended up following the traditional path to success. You know, studying hard for good grades to go to a good college then working hard to climb up the corporate ladder. So after attending Princeton, I moved to San Francisco and worked as a digital marketer for a few years. The creative side of marketing was interesting in the beginning, but I couldn't stop feeling lost and empty inside as time passed. Then one day, my friend and I decided to learn how to produce music together. It was purely for fun in the first year, but we got more serious about it and ended up forming a duo to start releasing music. It's funny how at the time, I felt too self-conscious to say I could "kinda sing" even though that was secretly my favorite thing to do. My friend and I eventually made the decision to quit our 9-5 jobs to travel in Southeast Asia for a few months while completely losing ourselves in music. I was so hyped to start this new chapter and move to LA after. But during the trip, my bandmate told me that he changed his mind and was gonna go back to SF to continue working in tech. I felt betrayed and hopeless at first since I didn't even know anyone in LA, and the thought of moving here alone as a noob scared the shit out of me. Ultimately, my passion for music was too deep for me to let that fear get in the way, so here I am. I'm still constantly figuring out how to navigate the scene but have been loving it here so far. There's so much creativity in this city, and I can't wait to keep meeting awesome creative people who inspire me. My music takes influences from genres like R&B, trapsoul, and alternative pop. People have compared my voice to artists like Jhene Aiko, Alina Baraz, and Billie Eilish. I'm a dancer too, so I can't wait to incorporate that to my music.