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Yaeji
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kathy Yaeji Lee, Yaeji Lee, Lee Ye-ji
Kathy Yaeji Lee (;, born August 6, 1993), known professionally as Yaeji, is an American singer, DJ, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her style blends elements of house music and hip hop with mellow, quiet vocals sung in both English and Korean.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- I SEE the SEA (Revised Edition)
- I SEE the SEA (Premium Matte Paper)
- I See the Sea (Standard Trade Paper)
- I See the Sea
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Film & TV
Queens, NY
Known for
- Pondeggi — Silkworm and Moth2025
- The Crunchyroll Anime Awards — Self - Presenter2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1993-08-06
Discography
- Awful2015
- Ichi2016
- New York 932016
- New York 932016
- Mountain2016
- Yaeji2017
- Passionfruit2017
- Therapy2017
- Last Breath2017
- Drink I’m Sippin On2017
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 596,406
- Total plays
- 12,913,101
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Kathy Yaeji Lee (born August 6, 1993 in New York City, U.S.), also known as Yaeji, is a Korean-American singer/producer of electronic deep house music, with whispered vocals in Korean and English. Yaeji was born in Flushing, Queens as a single child in a Korean family. Growing up, she moved from New York to Atlanta when she was 5, and then to South Korea in the third grade. Yaeji grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and eventually moved back to the United States to study conceptual art <a href="http
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Yaeji
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Kathy Yaeji Lee
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Queens, New York City, U.S.
- Musical artist.years_active
- 2016–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Lee
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Genre
- electronic music
- Official website
- www.yaeji.nyc
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- date of birth
- 1993-08-06
- start of work period
- 2016-00-00
- social media followers
- 189000
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Discography
- Studio albums
- Mixtapes
- Extended plays
- Singles
- As featured artist
- Remixes
- Videos
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Kathy Yaeji Lee (;, born August 6, 1993), known professionally as Yaeji, is an American singer, DJ, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her style blends elements of house music and hip hop with mellow, quiet vocals sung in both English and Korean.
==Early life== Kathy Yaeji Lee was born August 6, 1993, in Flushing, Queens, as a single child in a Korean family. She moved from New York to Atlanta, Georgia when she was 5, and then to South Korea in the third grade. While living in South Korea, Yaeji switched between different international schools on a yearly basis, leading her to find friends on the Internet, where she would first discover music. She also briefly attended school in Japan before moving back to Korea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yaeji” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.