Elly
Elly in May 2019
Born	Ahn Hyo-jin (1991-12-10) December 10, 1991 (age 32) Cheonan, South Korea[1]
Other names	LE
Occupations	Rapper songwriter producer
Musical career
Genres	K-pop K-hip hop
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	2012–present
Labels	Banana Culture TR
Member of	EXID
Formerly of	Jiggy Fellaz
Musical artist
Korean name
Hangul	안효진
Hanja	安孝珍
Revised Romanization	An Hyo-jin
McCune–Reischauer	An Hyochin
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Ahn Hyo-jin (Korean: 안효진; born December 10, 1991),^[2] professionally known as Elly (/ˈɛli/; stylized in all caps) and formerly known as LE, is a South Korean rapper, producer and songwriter. She has been a member of K-pop girl group EXID since 2012.^[3] She was also previously a member of the underground hip hop group, Jiggy Fellaz.^[4]

Career

EXID

EXID officially debuted on February 16, 2012, with the release of their debut single, "Whoz That Girl".^{[5][unreliable source?]}

Solo activities

In May 2012, Elly collaborated with Gavy NJ on their song, "Don't Call Me".^{[6][unreliable source?]}

In February 2013, producer Brave Brothers revealed that Elly had collaborated with B2ST's Junhyung and Big Star's Feeldog in a project group and would be releasing a single on February 21, 2013. A teaser was released on February with a "19+" rating, which was previously acknowledged in the single cover, "19+ Profanity Included – Absurd", and on February 20, Brave Brothers released Elly's version of the "You Got Some Nerve" MV teaser.^[7] A "15+" version of the song was released on February 21, with the curse words in the song bleeped out. The original song was rated "19+", but representatives of Brave Brothers said "You Got Some Nerve" was scheduled to be released as is with a 19+ rating, but due to the interest and requests of the fans, they decided to beep out the profanity. The explicit version of the song and its music video was released on February 25, 2013.^[8][9] Some fans were angered by this, wondering "why attention was attracted by writing a 19+ rating on the poster," while a media outlet revealed that the song had never been sent to the TV networks to be reviewed and disappointment was expressed on Brave Brothers' attitude toward the situation due to "media play" and mocking fans.^[8][10]

In July 2014, Elly was featured in Hyuna's mini-album, A Talk, and helped write the lyrics for the songs "French Kiss" and "Blacklist" and was featured on the latter.^{[11][unreliable source?]}

Elly helped co-produce the debut single album of girl group Tri.be alongside EXID producer and longtime collaborator Shinsadong Tiger.^{[12][unreliable source?]}

On March 25, 2020, Elly left Banana Culture.^[13]

On February 2, 2021, Elly announced on her Twitter account that she has changed her professional name back to "Elly" after fans noticed that her writing credits on Tri.be's album, Tri.be Da Loca, featured her updated name.^{[14][unreliable source?][15][better source needed]} EXID's most recent single album, X, released in September 2022 for their 10th anniversary, also featured this updated name in promotions.^{[16][better source needed]}

On April 17, 2023, Elly signed an exclusive contract with TR Entertainment.^[17]

Discography

Singles

Other charted songs

Songwriting credits

Source: Korea Music Copyright Association.

Filmography

Variety shows