An Yeojin (YiYi)

An Yeojin (안여진) better known as YiYi (이이) was the Leader, Main Dancer and Main Rapper of GCM. Following their disbandment in 2018, Yeojin debuted as a solo artist under SM Entertainment in 2019.

Early Life & Education
Yeojin was born June 7th 1993 in Suwon, South Korea. When Yeojin was 12 she started having interest in rapping and her friends nicknamed her ’굉장한 이이’ (Awesome YiYi), a nickname she would stick with for years to come. Other than this she lived in a fairly normal household with her and her parents.

Career
In early 2008, Yeojin decided to want to audition for an entertainment company, and at the age of 15 - two years later - she auditoned and got through an audition in Seoul for TS Entertainment, and would train there for little more than a year, before in 2012 debuting with 6 other girls as Girls’ Creative Minds (GCM).

They’d promote here for 2 years with 5 comebacks until in 2014, TS Entertainment signed a contract with Louph Entertainment and the girls were immediately added to the history of Louph. As TS Entertainment wasn’t exactly the richest company, adding the girls to Louph Entertainment who at the time already had 2 great artist under their belt seemed like a good move.

And though income got better, TS‘ treatment of the girls got worse. They were denied access to conversations with friends and family and rarely got to interact with their fandom. Yeojin has since said that 2015 to 2017 were some of the worst years they’d ever been through.

After the groups disbandment in late 2018, Yeojin immediately decided to join SM as she didn’t want her dream to go down in flames. She debuted in spring 2019 and has since worked as a solo artist. Yeojin rarely speaks about her life during GCM’s run.