Kang Ji-hyun, well-known by her adopted stage name Soyou, is an award winning South Korean singer, best recognised as former member of ‘Sistar’, a South Korean girl group formed by ‘Starship Entertainment’. Professionally she was a licensed hairdresser and worked in a hair salon prior to making her debut with ‘Sistar’. The K-pop girl group started their journey in early 2010 featuring in magazine photo shoots and commercials and officially debuted with the song ‘Push Push’ on June of that year making their debut performance on South Korean television music program ‘Music Bank’. Apart from her musical pursuits with ‘Sistar’, Soyou has also made a mark as a solo artist with songs like ‘Should I Confess’, ‘Once More’ and ‘Tell Me’. She also sang duet songs with other artists among which the track ‘Some’ sung with Junggigo featuring Geek’s Lil Boi earned her several awards. Over the years she has appeared in several television variety shows, mostly as contestant including in ‘Star Diving Show Splash’ and ‘1 vs. 100’ among others. She remained MC of the ‘OnStyle’ aired variety show ‘Get It Beauty’ and co-host of ‘MBC Every1’ aired show ‘Wishing Star’ and featured as herself in the SBS aired reality documentary show ‘Law of the Jungle in New Zealand’.