‘Golden’ Voice Behind ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Hit Joins WME

EJAE, the powerhouse vocalist and songwriter down KPop Demon Hunters’ chart-topping azygous “Golden,” has signed with WME for worldwide practice crossed each areas of her euphony career.

A breakout dependable from Netflix’s record-smashing animated philharmonic film, EJAE is the singing dependable of Rumi, the pb vocalist of the fictional miss radical HUNTR/X. She besides co-wrote respective of the movie’s standout tracks, including “Golden,” which became a planetary sensation and a history-making deed for a pistillate K-pop act.

“Golden” spent 8 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, marking the archetypal clip a opus by a pistillate K-pop creator reached No. 1. It besides deed No. 1 connected the Billboard Global 200 and has amassed much than 800 cardinal streams connected Spotify. The film’s soundtrack — connected which EJAE contributed songs specified arsenic “How It’s Done,” “What It Sounds Like,” “Your Idol” (performed by the movie’s rival lad radical Saja Boys), and the people centerpiece “Hunter’s Mantra” — became the archetypal soundtrack successful Billboard past to spot 4 songs simultaneously successful the Top 10.

EJAE’s momentum has continued beyond the film. She precocious performed “Golden” unrecorded with HUNTR/X connected The Tonight Show and appeared successful a skit connected Saturday Night Live. She was named 1 of Variety’s “10 Artisans to Watch” for 2025 and took location Best Original Soundtrack honors astatine this year’s K-World Dream Awards, portion besides earning a information for Song of the Summer astatine the MTV VMAs.

Before KPop Demon Hunters, EJAE had already established herself arsenic a sought-after originative unit successful the K-pop world. Her penning and vocal accumulation credits span immoderate of the genre’s biggest acts, including aespa (“Drama,” “Armageddon”), Red Velvet (“Psycho”), Le Sserafim, TWICE, Taeyeon, NMIXX, and Fifty Fifty. In 2022, she received a Hollywood Music successful Media Awards information for Best Original Song successful a Video Game for “Rebirth” from League of Legends.